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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 ...
The time when Spencer 1882 was manufactured, paper-cased shells and hand-loads were still used, which were inconsistent in terms of reliability. [4] The Spencer 1882 uses a spring-mounted ejector that's situated in front of the right-side action bar, that catches the dispensed shell and draws it out of the gun from the concave top of the ...
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.
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 ...
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]
Pages in category "Lever-action rifles" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Spencer repeating rifle; T. Triplett & Scott carbine; W.
A repeating rifle is a single-barreled rifle capable of repeated discharges between each ammunition reload. This is typically achieved by having multiple cartridges stored in a magazine (within or attached to the rifle) and then fed individually into the chamber by a reciprocating bolt, via either a manual or automatic action mechanism, while the act of chambering the round typically also ...
There also exist lever-action rifle/shotguns that feed from a box magazine, which allows them to use pointed bullets. Some of the early manual repeating pistols (e.g. Volcanic pistol) also use a scaled-down version of lever-action. A one-off example of lever-action loading on an automatic firearm is the M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. This ...