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Adjustable ramp rear sights, fixed blade front sight. The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridge-loaded ...
Model 1863 Springfield rifled musket and Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon Springfield and Enfield actions. The Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon was a short-barrel version (610 mm or 24 inches) of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket, having a faster rifling twist rate (1:48 versus 1:78), along with more rifling grooves (five grooves versus the Pattern 1853's three grooves), which made it as ...
Chiappa M6 Survival Gun is an over and under combination gun that comes in four versions; with a 12-gauge or 20-gauge shotgun barrel over a .22 Long Rifle or .22 Magnum barrel. Chiappa Triple Crown shotguns are triple-barrel, break-action shotguns, chambered in 12-, 20-, 28- and .410-gauge. The 12-gauge model has 28 inch barrels while the ...
191 ft⋅lbf (259 J) Test barrel length: 18.5 in (470 mm) Source (s): [2][3] The .22 Long Rifle, also known as the .22LR or 5.6×15mmR, [4][5] is a long-established variety of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition originating from the United States. It is used in a wide range of firearms including rifles, pistols, revolvers, and submachine guns.
The Minié rifle was an important infantry rifle of the mid-19th century. A version was adopted in 1849 following the invention of the Minié ball in 1847 by the French Army captain Claude-Étienne Minié of the Chasseurs d' Orléans and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. The bullet was designed to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles and was an ...
By contrast, the British Enfield Pattern 1853, favored by the Confederate military, utilized a ladder-sight system with 100-yard (91 m) increments, using steps from 100 to 400 yards (91–366 m) and a flip-up ladder for ranges beyond 500 yards (460 m). While the Enfield's sights did allow more precise sighting, the simple flip-up leaves found ...
Barrel Length Overall Length Weight Long Land Pattern: 1722–1793 Standard Infantry Musket 1722–1768 (supplemented by Short Land Pattern from 1768) 46 inches (1,200 mm) 62.5 inches (1,590 mm) 10.4 pounds (4.7 kg) Short Land Pattern: 1740–1797 1740 (Dragoons) 1768 (Infantry) Standard Infantry Musket 1793–1805: 42 inches (1,100 mm)
The Long Rifle has a 36 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch (93 cm) barrel and three barrel bands. Its total length (without bayonet) is 54 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (138 cm) in length. It was issued to line infantry and has three-groove rifling with one turn in 78 inches (200 cm). The Short Rifle has a 30.5-inch (77 cm) barrel and two barrel bands with iron furniture.