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Many older Mississippi rifles were re-bored to .58 caliber. The rifle was also modified to accept a sword type bayonet. The first Mississippi rifles had a v-notch sight. This was later replaced with leaf sights with 100, 300, and 500 yard ranges. A ladder sight with ranges from 100 to 1100 yards in 100 yard increments was fitted on some later ...
Harpers Ferry Model 1816 (USA – rifle – 1816) Harpers Ferry Model 1819 "Hall Rifle" (USA – rifle – c.1820) Harpers Ferry Model 1841 "Mississippi Rifle" (USA – rifle – 1841) Harpers Ferry Model 1855 (USA – rifle – 1857) Henry Repeating Rifle (US – rifle – 1850s-1866) Huochong (China – hand cannon – 13th century)
The Defeat of the Mexican Lancers by the Mississippi Rifles by Samuel Chamberlain (watercolor painted c. 1860) Jefferson Davis, c. 1847 Example of a .54-caliber, muzzle-loading, percussion-fire 1841 Mississippi rifle, as manufactured by Eli Whitney in 1849 (U.S. Military Service Institute via Smithsonian Online)
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Remington supplied the U.S. Navy with its first breech-loading rifle. Remington supplied the U.S. Army with rifles in the Mexican–American War (1846 to 1848). Shortly after, Remington took over a defaulted contract (by John Griffith of Cincinnati) for 5,000 U.S. Model 1841 Percussion Mississippi rifles. Based on the success of filling these ...
Marlin Model 780: Marlin Firearms.22 Long Rifle United States: 1988 Marlin Model 795: Marlin Firearms.22 Long Rifle United States: 2007 Marlin Model Golden 39A: Marlin Firearms.22 Short.22 Long.22 Long Rifle United States: 1891 Marlin Model XT-22: Marlin Firearms.22 Long Rifle United States: 2011 Martini Cadet: BSA and W.W. Greener.310 Cadet ...
Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull. He spots somebody darting around the corner of an adobe wall, firing assault rifle shots at him and his Marines. Nick raises his M-4 carbine. He sees the shooter is a child, maybe 13. With only a split second to decide, he squeezes the trigger and ends the boy’s life. The body hits the ground. Now what?
M1841 Mississippi rifle; ... Minié rifle; Model 1814 common rifle; Model 1817 common rifle; P. Palmer carbine; Pattern 1853 Enfield; Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon; R.