Likely a replacement at .Click for more info Seller: LeRoy Merz Antique Guns Area Code: 218 $9,500.00 Caleb Giddings, Marketing Manager at Taurus, introduces the all-new TaurusTX 22 Compact. His father, Ogden Spencer, agreed to finance his son's gunmaking venture and employed the talents of a gunmaker appropriately named Luke Wheelock. .Cal. The war in Virginia was over a week later on April 9, 1865, with Lees surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. FINE SPENCER 1860 CARBINE IN CALIBER 50 RF GI#: 102191653 20 inch round barrel with 3-groove rifled bore chambered in 50 RF caliber. Excellent bore and mechanics. A Spencer carbine normally holds seven rounds of .45 LC, so, 7 X 1.6" = 11.2 inches of ammo in the tube. The caliber was reduced, and many Civil War Spencers were taken to Springfield Armory, where they were refurbished and converted to handle the new .56-52 and .56-50 rimfire rounds (which were virtually interchangeable). The M1865 Spencer carbine was the standard in post-war service and remained in service into the middle 1870s. The powder charge was about 45 grains.. Sgt. 85%, 20 inch round barrel with an excellent bright shiny bore. Tough One: Spencer 56-50 bullets & relo Get Guns March 06 page 75 issue has a great write up about 56-50 Spencer. the Civil War, --David Miller, Illustrated Directory of Guns: A Collectors Guide to over 2,000 Military, Sporting, and Antique Firearms, p. 539-540, The open breech of the Spencer Carbine, Model 1865, manufactured by the Burnside Rifle Co. This is currently loaded obsolete black powder cartridge rifle ammunition for the 56-50 Spencer made by Armi Sport. Undaunted, Spencer conducted another test that same month, this time for the U.S. Navy. John Wilson from Company L and one other trooper slowed the rebel advance long enough to allow the withdrawal of the lead horses. The Spencer Rifle was the customary firearm for the Union cavalry trooper. 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A sling swivel was located on the buttstock, and there was a sling ring and bar on the carbines left-side grip area. The company made its humble start in 1963in Gussago, Italywhen Giuseppe Pietta made a commitment to produce guns as authentic and true-to-original as possible. Trivia An image of the Spencer Repeating Carbine was released by Kazuhira on the Starboard Studios Discord on June 1st, 2021, along with the Marlin Pump Action Shotgun. The 13-tube model, when fully loaded, weighed over nine pounds - more than the carbine itself. "At this point it absolutely seems a pity to kill men so. .52 caliber with a 22" barrel. About 1920, ammunition was phased out, and it remains obsolete today. One dropped a number of cartridges, nose-first, into the magazine. Barrel has been lightly cleaned long ago a, Mid-CIVIL WAR Antique SPENCER REPEATING RIFLE CO. .52 Cal. But it was the Spencer repeating rifle that really established his name in the pantheon of American inventors. I've got a sweet Spencer carbine which seems to be a bit of an oddball; cutoff, but no saddle ring bar, odd looking stock fit that feels like a repair/replacement, low serial number of 4222 and etc. Raising the lever chambered the round. They range from the Henry Repeating Rifle- forerunner of the Winchester lever action- to obscurities such as the Triplett & Scott by the Meriden Manufacturing Company. The gun is 100% complete, correct and original in every way, and remains in very crisp condition. However, Garry's original had a remarkably smoother action. Lever-action rifle with 7-shot tube-fed magazine, checkered spur hammer, and adjustable ladder and fixed blade sights. "Relic Spencer Model 1865 Saddle Ring Carbine (AL3960). This year, H&R announced an expansion of its AR-15 lineup, bringing additional "retro" models to the market, including a 9 mm Luger-chambered Colt SMG clone, an M16A2-styled rifle and the carbine-size 723. Testimonial upon testimonial arrived at the Spencer works, which by 1863 had relocated to the Chickering Piano-Forte Building in Boston, MA. Lowering the operating lever, which also served as the trigger guard, ejected the fired case and automatically fed the next round into the chamber from the magazine. In Wilsons 1865 raid through the Deep South, his men were mainly armed with Spencers and equipped with Blakeslee cartridge boxes. After the capture of Selma, Wilsons Cavalry continued on to Macon, Ga., where they were informed that the war was over. Gen. Eli Longs Division of Wilsons Cavalry. This effectively turned the carbine into a single-shot, the other seven cartridges being kept in the magazine in reserve - a device to warm the cockles of any penurious ordnance officer's heart. Identifying Old U.S. Muskets, Rifles & Carbines, The Spencers metallic rimfire cartridges enabled to gun to work as it did. Taurus Marketing Manager Caleb Giddings highlights the features of the new Taurus Raging Hunter 460 Magnum, a purpose-built revolver with a 10.5-inch barrel and an effective recoil-taming brake, with Guns & Ammo Executive Editor Joe Kurtenbach. But the Army remained unconvinced. Spencer Military "Rifle"Civil War. NICE CONDITION!.LAYAWAY? Spencer Model 1865 Saddle Ring Carbine by Burnside Rifle Co. The Spencer carbine was the first of the successful repeaters, and was afterwards thought to be the most finished and ready weapon of the Civil War., -- William Addleman Ganoe, History of the United States Army, p. 247, This gun was The spring of 1865 found the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac located around Petersburg, Va., and it reported 5,300 Spencer carbines in field service. PLATE SAN FRANCISCO CAL. Then the troopers-with the assistance of the Warm Springs scouts-tracked the Modocs down and Captain Jack was captured and later hanged. Caliber .56-56. Late in the war the Ordnance Dept. This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets. models. After Spencer put the gun back together, Lincoln asked him if he had any engagements the following day, to which the inventor replied that he did not. The .56-50-cal. 2023 Outdoor Sportsman Group. This is a FINE example of the US M-1860 Spencer carbine. SN: 83643. PLATE SAN FRANCISCO CAL. Of this number, 14,494 were equipped with the Stabler cut-off and 16,008 without. Model 1865 Spencer Carbine. No Spencer carbines were on issue at the Battle of Gettysburg, though two units under Custer had the rifles. His seminal design was simply nothing short of revolutionary and the best firearm of its type to be fielded for a good number of years afterward. For the Red Dead Redemption variant, see Repeater Carbine. location in Madison, AL. On June 27, 1864, the Burnside Rifle Co. entered into a contract with the Ordnance Dept. The TaurusTX 22 Compact delivers class-leading reliability, capacity, and shootability in a 22 LR platform, and it's cut for a slide-mounted mini red dot. These basic questions were asked of the importers (Taylors & Company and Cimarron F.A. It has a cut-off stabler device. This is loaded using Swiss black powder and properly headstamped brass (item #STR5650). With the action closed, the hammer was then cocked, and the Spencer was ready to fire again. Components can also be had from a number of sources, and when I'm not using Ten-X fodder, I do rely on my own black-powder reloads, which, with their .546 375 handcast bullets from Rapine Bullet Mold Co. and 34-grain FFg powder charge, actually work pretty well themselves, though not as well as the Ten-X. Bob Meinert, FN Marketing Director, introduces FN's first commercial pistol suppressor, the FN Rush 9Ti. To fire the Spencer, the lever was opened, which dropped the carrier to pick up a cartridge from the tubed plunger. But the merciless Spencer seven-shooter would not cease.". says that the adopted Spencer model had 6 grooves for its rifling, not three. 20 inch barrel with 3-groove rifling. Give a Gift The serial number is found at the rear of the breech. The metal surfaces of t, Spencer carbine made in 1864 according to Roy Marcot book on Spencers. Spencer Carbine with Stabler Cutoff.LAYAWAY? Handloading the .56-50 Spencer Centerfire. With the changes directed to be made to the carbines, deliveries did not start until April 15, 1865, and they continued until the end of October, with a 30,496 M1865 Spencer carbines being delivered. Foremost is the large caliber and case capacity, combined with relatively low pressures. I have fired an original Spencer, and for this go-around I was able to procure a similar Civil War carbine from fellow gunwriter Garry James for comparison. SN: 36895. 1870S. Early INDIAN WARS, Spencer Civil War Carbine S.N. | The framer has 60% of the period case colors. Lever-action carbine with adjustable rear ta, Nice solid Spencer Saddle Ring Carbine. The Burnside Rifle Company created 30,496 Spencers that were purchased by private funds for state troops. These are very rare to encounter and extremely rare in this condition. Then a metal forked tongue and a breech piece called a projection held the cartridge in place at the cartridges tip. This Burnside Model Spencer Repeating Rifle (carbine) is a right hand lever activated action 10 round tube magazine rifle in .54 Cal. '", Lincoln kept the rifle, and the next day he took his secretary, John Hay, out for another shooting session, during which Hay described the Spencer as "a wonderful gun, loading with absolutely contemptible simplicity and ease with seven balls and firing the whole readily and deliberately in less than half a minute.". This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets. placed orders for 32,000 Blakeslee cavalry cartridge boxes, which were the invention of Col. Erastus Blakeslee of the First Connecticut Cavalry. The men dismounted and led their horses, and in the four-hour engagement before the Indians called off the attack, the cavalrymen suffered two dead and 11 wounded. By not using a tape primer or percussion caps, the carbine functioned a lot faster than others. Ben Voss FN Product Manager talks about the new FN SCAR 15P ultra-compact rifle-caliber pistol at SHOT Show 2023. The Spencer will always deal 87 damage to the body, and will instantly kill upon a headshot dealing 108 damage to the player, irrespective of range. Ruger's multi-role small frame autoloading rifle - Sear - combines AR-10 power with AR-15 Portability. Load on Sunday and shoot all week! However, there was a very influential observer at the test- President Abraham Lincoln. Both smokeless and Triple 7 black-powder loads are available, with the black-powder cartridges producing about 1,000 fps muzzle velocity, while the smokeless loads clock in at 1,290 fps. Pushing down the guard lever below the trigger opened the breech and extracted the spent cartridge. Gun has a bout 75% toning, 26 inch round barrel with a fine bore. The 500 members of the Fifth New York Cavalry dismounted and formed a loose skirmish line, and there they were attacked by a division of Confederate infantry. And finally, because of ongoing demand for his guns, Spencer could not supply extra parts. I found these loads of high quality that offered low extreme spreads, accuracy and reliable functioning. Another wartime contract of May 24, 1864, stated that the Army would take the entire production fabricated by the Spencer factory through Sept. 1, 1865. Reloading can be done by manually placing a single cartridge into the butt port (via the removed magazine cover/tube through the open rear) or by pre-made cartridge cases called "Blakeslee Cartridge Cases", these ammo The number of cartridges is variable. Barrel has most of the original blue.
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