The Maynard carbine was a breech-loaded carbine used by cavalry in the American Civil War. The First Model was manufactured between 1858 and 1859. About...
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A carbine (/ˈkɑːrbiːn/ or /ˈkɑːrbaɪn/), from French carabine, is a long arm firearm but with a shorter barrel than a rifle or musket. Many carbines are...
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The Maynard tape primer was a system designed by Edward Maynard to allow for more rapid reloading of muskets. Muskets in the early 19th century were flintlocks...
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primed breechloaders. The Springfield Armory manufactured a sample Maynard carbine in .48 caliber and it was tested in May 1856. The gun, fired at ranges...
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Frank Wesson Rifles (redirect from Frank Wesson carbine)
repeating rifle (cartridge introduced in 1860), Spencer repeating rifle, Maynard carbine, Frank Wesson rifles, and Ballard rifles. The .44 caliber Frank Wesson...
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unchanged. Some designs emerged, such as Maynard carbine and the pellet feed system employed by the Sharps carbine, which mechanised the recharging of the...
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which had been using Maynard's system under contract for several years. In 1855 they produced 2,000 Greene Carbines, a Maynard system firearm, for a...
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II, III, and IV (United Kingdom – rifle – 1871) Massachusetts Arms Maynard Carbine (USA – rifle – 1851) Mauser Gewehr 71 (German Empire – rifle – 1871)...
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Sharps rifle (redirect from Sharps carbine)
is referred to as the "first contract", which was for 10,000 Model 1851 carbines, of which approximately 1,650 were produced by R&L in Windsor. In 1851...
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Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr. (August 6, 1909 – January 9, 1965), nicknamed Maynard Johnson, was an American designer of firearms, lawyer, and United States...
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Colt Army Revolver Colt Navy Revolver Gallager Carbine Kentucky Rifle Light Cavalry Saber Maynard Carbine Mississippi Rifle Remington Revolver Sharps Rifle...
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supplanted it, obviating the use of the insufficiently weather resistant Maynard tape primer. The Model 1855 Springfield was a rifled musket used in the...
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Soldier of the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Battalion, holding a Maynard carbine....
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Contract carbines as they were known at that time: Cosmopolitan, Sharps, Gallager, Smith and Burnside Joslyn, Starr, Lindner, Warner, Maynard and Merrill...
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Caliber Musketoon Rifled musket: Springfield Model 1855 – .58 caliber Maynard tape primer percussion lock rifled musket. Springfield Model 1861 – .58...
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Brian Maynard Kincel was an editor for Gun World magazine and Maynard was a technician who worked at AMT's service department. .40 KMP (Kincel-Maynard Pistol)...
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most widespread of these was the Spencer carbine, which was adopted as the Union cavalry's official carbine in 1864. However, since the South was incapable...
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Springfield Model 1855 was the elimination of the Maynard tape primer for the Model 1861 (the Maynard primer, a self-feeding primer system, was unreliable...
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North-South Skirmish Association (section Carbine)
the Sharps carbine and the Burnside carbine were more frequently encountered. The N-SSA groups muzzle-loading and breech-loading carbines together for...
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converted to rimfire. The Burnside carbine: Invented by future-general Ambrose Burnside in 1857, this percussion-cap carbine became the third-most common cavalry...
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shipped to Richmond by rail. Richmond Armory began production of a cavalry carbine in November 1862 by reducing barrel length to 25 inches (64 cm) and overall...
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caliber percussion breech-loading carbines 532 Maynard see Perry by Keen, Walker. Not to be confused with northern Maynard of Chicopee Falls, MA W. S. McElwaine...
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first percussion firearm produced for the US military was the percussion carbine version (c.1833) of the M1819 Hall rifle. The Americans' breech loading...
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the 19th century, the blunderbuss was replaced for military use by the carbine, but still found use by civilians as a defensive firearm. Early 17th century:...
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to him "capturing" a Korean family and their ox, and almost firing his carbine in Potter's office at the suggestion that he is heading for a Section Eight...
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January 23, 2021, an animated motion-capture video for the song "Autumn and Carbine" was premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami. The video was directed by Eric...
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Madison Square Garden. In 1973, Thomas joined Gloria Steinem, Patricia Carbine, and Letty Cottin Pogrebin as the founders of the Ms. Foundation for Women...
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that on or about 14 July 1841, Bonjon shot Yammowing in the head with a carbine at Geelong, killing him. The prosecution ultimately abandoned the case...
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the approaches leading from the lake, and the marines, under Sergeant Carbine, garrisoned the block-house. The divisions, thus stationed, left a gap...
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Winfield Scott. A late example the Butterfield revolver of 1855 used a Maynard tape primer rather than percussion caps. 640 were issued to the US Army...
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