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Horace E. Dimick was a gunsmith and firearms dealer active in St. Louis, Missouri from 1849 through the early 1870s. Dimick expanded from a small custom gun store, to a larger emporium selling a variety of firearms and even manufacturing cannons.
Ferguson rifle (British breech-loading rifle - patented December of 1776) Fayetteville rifle (CSA – rifle – 1862) Frank Wesson Rifles (USA – rifle – 1858/1861) Fusil modèle 1866 "Chassepot" (France – rifle – 1866) Fusil Gras mle 1874 (France – rifle – 1874)
It was an outgrowth of the Wesson Rifle Company. Christian Sharps, who later founded the Sharps Rifle Company, transferred the manufacture of his first rifle to the company in 1849 or 1850. The company also manufactured Wesson & Leavitt revolvers between 1850 and 1851. [1] [2] These were said to be the first revolvers patented after Colt's.
1873 Springfield model 1873 rifles and carbines; 1874 Sharps rifle and carbines; 1876 Winchester "Centennial" 1883 Colt Burgess; ... The second is Taylor's, a ...
Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company is a firearms manufacturer located in Big Timber, Montana, United States. The company produces a line of reproductions of various historical black-powder rifles, including the legendary 1874 Sharps Rifle , featured in the 1990 Western film Quigley Down Under , starring Tom Selleck .
In 1915, Stevens led the U.S. arms business in target and small game guns. [4] On May 28, 1915, New England Westinghouse, a division of Westinghouse Electric, purchased Stevens. New England Westinghouse was created specifically to fulfill a contract to produce 1.8 million Mosin-Nagant rifles for Czar Nicholas II of Russia for use in World War I ...
Fusil Gras mle 1874 [1]-Most popular; Chassepot [1] Lebel Model 1886 rifle [2] Berthier rifle; FN Model 24 and Model 30 [1] Mauser Model 1871 [3] Mauser Standardmodell; Gewehr 1888 [4] [5] Gewehr 98 [5] Werndl–Holub rifle [3] Kropatschek rifle [6] Mosin–Nagant; Mannlicher M1888 [5] Mannlicher M1890 carbine [5] Mannlicher M1895 [5] M1870 ...
The Springfield Model 1873 was the first standard-issue breech-loading rifle adopted by the United States Army (although the Springfield Model 1866 had seen limited issue to troops along the Bozeman Trail in 1867). The rifle, in both full-length and carbine versions, was widely used in subsequent battles against Native Americans.