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Instead, Lyman Smith was the namesake of the famous L.C. Smith Shotgun. In 1877, L.C. and his older brother Leroy joined forces with an established firearms designer, William H. Baker, to form W.H. Baker & Co., and for the next three years, the firm produced Baker designed shotguns. However, in 1880, Leroy Smith and W.H. Baker left the company ...
According to one account, Doc Holliday used a 10 gauge Wm. Moore & Co. [6] coach gun to shoot Tom McLaury point-blank in the chest with buckshot during the Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on Wednesday, October 26, 1881. [7] They stood in such close proximity that the town mortician was able to cover McLaury's wound with one ...
The least popular sizes are the 10 gauge and the 16 gauge; while far less common than the other four gauges, they are still commercially available. [citation needed] [9] Shotguns and shells exceeding 10 gauge, such as the 8 gauge, 6 gauge, 4 gauge, and 2 gauge are historically important in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in mainland Europe ...
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A cannon foundry and pyrotechnics laboratory founded in 1853. In 1883 the laboratory was spun off to form Vojno Tehnicki Zavod, which concentrated on munitions and pyrotechnics. The headstamp had the A at 9 o'clock, T at 12 o'clock and Ӡ at 3 o'clock, with the two-digit year at 6 o'clock.
Western calendar, 1927 World War II era advertisement explaining ammunition shortages and the company's contribution to the war effort. John Olin, the son of founder Franklin W. Olin, improved shotgun cartridge designs in the 1920s by using harder shot and progressive burning powder. [9]
Marlin Firearms is an American manufacturer of semi-automatic, lever-action and bolt-action rifles.In the past the company (based in Madison, North Carolina and formerly based in North Haven, Connecticut) made shotguns, derringers, and revolvers.