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The .45-70 Hotchkiss was acquired in limited numbers by the US Navy as the M1879, and (in a slightly modified version) by the US Army and several state militias as the M1883, making it the first center-fire bolt-action repeater to be adopted by any major military (the distinction of first bolt-action repeating rifle to be issued in great ...
All are chambered for the .45/70 caliber except for the "M" (.450) Introduced in the 1970s, based on the Model 336 and named after the original 1895. Marlin Model 1895 Square bolt. The original rifle introduced in 1895, based on the 1893 action but scaled up for larger cartridges such as 45-70 and 45-90 to replace the Model 1881.
Krag-Jørgensen Rifle: Bolt-action rifle Norway: 748,500< +750,000 Official rifle of the US military from 1892-4 until 1904. Ruger GP100: Revolver United States: 734,500 [151] Colt 1903/1908 Pocket Hammerless: Semi-automatic pistol 710,000 572,215 in .32 ACP and 138,009 in .380 ACP Winchester Model 1873: Lever-action rifle 702,000 [152] [153 ...
According to the US Army Ordnance Department tests, the 45-70-405 was loaded to 19,000 psi, [4] while the 45-70-500 was loaded to 25,000 psi [2] The average accuracy of the Springfield Model 1873 was a circle with an average radius of 1.7 inches at 100 yards, corresponding to an ~3.4 MOA.
M1870 Gasser (Austria-Hungary – revolver – 1870) M1871 Beaumont (Netherlands – rifle – 1869/1871) M1879 Reichsrevolver (German Empire – revolver – 1879) M1882 Revolver (Switzerland – revolver – 1882) M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun "Potato Digger" (USA – heavy machine gun – c.1895) M1895 Lee Navy (USA – rifle, bolt ...
IOF .30-06 sporting rifle.30-06 Springfield: 2007 India: IOF .315 sporting rifle: 8mm BSA (8x50mmR Mannlicher) 1956 India: Ishapore 2A1 rifle: 7.62x51mm NATO: 1962 India: Jungle carbine.303 British: 1944 United Kingdom: K31: 7.5×55mm Swiss: 1933 Switzerland: Karabiner 98k: 7.92×57mm Mauser: 1935 Nazi Germany: Krag–Jørgensen: 6.5×55mm.30 ...
11-mm Mauser is the service rifle of the Martian Army in The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. [39] However, the book states these were bought as surplus from the Spanish–American War, which would in fact make them Model 1893 7×57mm Mauser. In the film The Last Samurai, the Japanese Imperial Army carries German bolt-action Mauser M1871/84 ...
It first appeared in 1879, manufactured by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company.Eventually Remington took over production and produced copies in .45-70.Arguably this was the most modern rifle in the world, until the introduction of the 8mm Lebel M1886 rifle using smokeless powder, the Remington-Lee rifle utilized the first successful detachable box magazine, unlike the Lebel rifle which was ...