Sharps rifle

...not produced in great numbers. The Tarpley Carbine was a breechloader, and was comparable in this sense to the Sharps Rifle and Carbine more widely used by the Union. On , there are some notes about the Carbine's manufacture: "The...

In this article: American Civil War, Pistol, Greensboro, N.C., and North Carolina

Thus when white hunters bent on exterminating the herds descended on the Panhandle with weapons of mass destruction like the long-range Sharps rifle, the tribe responded with violent alacrity. Which is why we decided to travel 109 miles to...

In this article: Woody Guthrie, Panhandle, Borger, The Big Texan Steak Ranch, Thomas Hart Benton, Ranald Mackenzie, and Pampa, Texas

...eye and a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances. Quigley's weapon of choice is an 1874 Sharps Buffalo Rifle . He answers an advertisement that asks for men with a special talent in long...

In this article: Quigley Down Under, Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Australia, and Alan Rickman

...Bibles" was the name given to the breech loading Sharps rifles that were supplied to the anti-slavery immigrants in Kansas. The Sharps rifle was a big innovation in firearms during the 1850s. It was highly sought after by men looking...

In this article: Henry Ward Beecher, Kansas, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and New York Tribune

...rifle", the buffalo gun, and the fur trapper's gun. Born in the 1820s, it was eventually displaced by breechloaders (such as the Sharps rifle) and lever-action rifles which flourished after the Civil War. The Hawken "plains rifle" was...

In this article: Hawken rifle, Rocky Mountain, St Louis, Missouri, Winchester rifle, Kentucky Rifle, and Civil War

...War, when over 55,000 were ordered for use by Union cavalrymen . This made it the third most popular carbine of the Civil War; only the Sharps carbine and the Spencer carbine were more widely used. They saw action in all theatres of the war.

In this article: Ambrose Burnside, Burnside carbine, Civil War, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of the Crater, Battle of Fredericksburg, Sharps carbine, and U.S. Army

...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. Shiloh Rifle began...

In this article: Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company, Tom Selleck, Quigley Down Under, Big Timber, Montana, and United States

...block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. It closely resembles older Sharps Rifle but has firing mechanism uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old...

In this article: Hugo Borchardt and Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company

Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was the manufacturer of Sharps Rifle. It was organized by Samuel Robbins and Richard S. Lawrence as a holding company in Hartford, Connecticuton October 9, 1851 with $100,000 in capital. John C. Palmer was...

In this article: Christian Sharps, Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company, Windsor, VT., and Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company

...portal from construction until August 30, 2007, when variable automation was turned on. The military Sharps Rifle (also known as the Berdan Sharps rifle) was a falling block rifle used during and after the American Civil War. Along with...

In this article: American Civil War, Robert E. Lee, George B. McClellan, Antietam, Compromise of 1850, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, and Andersonville