Sharps rifle
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Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848 and ceasing production in 1881. They were renowned for
Berdan Sharps rifle
Sharps Model 1852 "slanting breech"
Sharps Model 1852, lock
Sharps Model 1852, breech
Spencer repeating rifle
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The Spencer repeating rifle was a 19th-century American lever-action firearm invented by Christopher Spencer. The Spencer carbine was a shorter and lighter version designed for the cavalry.
Sharps rifle
…both the Union and Confederate armies and was issued in much larger numbers than other carbines of the war and was top in production in front of the Spencer or Burnside carbine. The falling-block action lent itself to conversion to the new metallic cartridges developed in the late 1860s, and many of these…
Spencer carbine, magazine tube, and cartridges