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The Pattern 1851 Minié rifle was in use by the British Army from 1851 to 1855. 34,000 were made under the formal name of Regulation Minié rifle. [2] [3] The rifle was .702 caliber with the intent that in emergency it could fire musket balls. [4] [5] In practice it was found that only about 12 could be fired before it became impossible to ...
Pattern 1851 Enfield. In 1851, the Enfield factory embarked upon production of the .702-inch [17.8 mm] Pattern 1851 Minié rifle using the conical Minie bullet, which replaced the Pattern 1842 .753 calibre smoothbore musket as the primary weapon issued to regular troops. The Pattern 1851 was referred to as a rifled musket and was longer than ...
While three of the four divisions of the field army in the Crimea had been supplied with the pattern 1851 Minie rifle-musket, the other regiments of the army around the Empire still carried the 1842 pattern smoothbore musket. By the end of 1853, the Enfield rifle-musket was approved by the War Department for the army and was put into production.
Brown Bess Long Land, Short Land, India Patterns: Flintlock: 1722 British Empire: Baker rifle: Flintlock: 1801-1837 British Empire: Lovells Pattern 1838 musket and Double Barrel Carbine: Caplock: 1883 British Empire: Pattern 1842 Musket: Caplock: 1842-1853 British Empire: Pattern 1851 Rifle: Caplock: 1851 British Empire: Pattern 1853 Enfield ...
The Royal Prussian Rifle Factory at the Spandau Arsenal began production in 1853, followed by Danzig, Saarn and Erfurt. At first, the Spandau factory produced 12,000 Dreyse needle guns a year, rising to 48,000 in 1867. The British Army evaluated the Dreyse needle gun in 1849–1851.
Model 1863 Springfield rifled musket and Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon Springfield and Enfield actions. The Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon was a short-barrel version (610 mm or 24 inches) of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket, having a faster rifling twist rate (1:48 versus 1:78), along with more rifling grooves (five grooves versus the Pattern 1853's three grooves), which made it as ...
The Long Rifle has a 36 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch (93 cm) barrel and three barrel bands. Its total length (without bayonet) is 54 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (138 cm) in length. It was issued to line infantry and has three-groove rifling with one turn in 78 inches (200 cm). The Short Rifle has a 30.5-inch (77 cm) barrel and two barrel bands with iron furniture.
The Model 1861 was a step forward in U.S. small arms design, being the first rifled shoulder weapon adopted and widely issued as the primary infantry weapon (earlier U.S. martial rifles such as the Harpers Ferry Model 1803 rifle were issued to riflemen rather than the infantry as a whole and production and issuance of the Model 1855 prior to ...