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The Spencer was the world's first military metallic-cartridge repeating rifle, and over 200,000 examples were manufactured in the United States by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. and Burnside Rifle Co. between 1860 and 1869. The Spencer repeating rifle was adopted by the Union Army, especially by the cavalry, during the American Civil War but ...
Annie Oakley owned a Spencer 1882 shotgun, which was one of her favorite firearms. [14] [15] [16] From a retrospective view, Spencer 1882 is regarded as a trailblazer for pump-action shotguns. However, modern commentators find the Spencer 1882 to be somewhat awkward to use and/or unpleasant to fire. [4]
During the American Civil War, an assortment of small arms found their way onto the battlefield.Though the muzzleloader percussion cap rifled musket was the most numerous weapon, being standard issue for the Union and Confederate armies, many other firearms, ranging from the single-shot breech-loading Sharps and Burnside rifles to the Spencer and the Henry rifles - two of the world's first ...
Christopher Miner Spencer (June 20, 1833 – January 14, 1922) was an American inventor, from Manchester, Connecticut, who invented the Spencer repeating rifle, one of the earliest models of lever-action rifle, a steam powered "horseless carriage", and several other inventions.
Spencer repeating rifle: The Spencer M1860 was a manually operated lever-action repeating rifle fed from a tube magazine with cartridges. Fewer of these were issued compared to the carbine variant. Springfield M1795 musket: The first .69 caliber smoothbore flintlock musket made in the US for the military. Springfield M1812 musket: Springfield ...
The .56-52, made by Spencer, and the .56-50, made by Springfield, differed only in the degree of crimp, with the .56-50 having a greater crimp; both fired 350-grain (23 g) .512-inch (13.0 mm) bullets. The .56-46 fired a 320-grain (21 g) - 330-grain (21 g) .465-inch (11.8 mm) bullet. [1] The Spencer rifle used a tubular magazine. To control the ...
Spencer repeating rifle, a U.S. Army weapon popular from the American Civil War through the Plains Indian Wars; Spencer or trysail, a small low sail used to maintain control of a sailing vessel in very high winds
Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle; Henry repeating rifle [2] Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket [4] Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket; Peabody M1862 Action rifle; Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle; Spencer repeating carbine and rifle [2] Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle; Trade musket [5]