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FREE FROM MUSKET TO METALLIC CARTRIDGE: A PRACTICAL HISTORY OF BLACK POWDER FIREARMS PDF Oyvind Flatnes | 240 pages | 01 Mar 2014 | The Crowood Press Ltd | 9781847975935 | English | Ramsbury, United Kingdom Chassepot - Wikipedia The Spencer repeating rifles and carbines were early American lever-action firearms invented by Christopher Spencer. The Spencer was the world's first military metallic cartridge repeating rifle, and overexamples were manufactured in the United States by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. The Spencer repeating rifle was adopted by the Union Armyespecially by the cavalryduring the American Civil War but did not replace the standard issue muzzle-loading rifled muskets in use at the time. Among the early users was George Armstrong Custer. The Spencer carbine was a shorter and lighter version designed for the cavalry. The design for a magazine-fed, lever-operated rifle chambered for the. Called the Spencer Repeating Rifle, it was fired by cocking a lever to extract a used case and feed a new cartridge from a tube in the buttstock. Like most firearms of the time, the hammer had to be manually cocked after each round in a separate From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms before the weapon could be fired. A spring in the tube enabled the rounds to be fired one after another. When empty, the spring had to be released and removed before dropping in fresh cartridges, then replaced before resuming firing. Rounds could be loaded individually or from a device called the Blakeslee Cartridge Box, which contained up to thirteen also six and ten tubes with seven cartridges each, which could be emptied into the magazine tube in the buttstock. Unlike later cartridge designations, the. Cartridges were loaded with 45 grains 2. Cartridge length was limited by the action size to about 1. When Spencer signed his new rifle up for adoption right after the Civil War broke out, the view by the Department of War Ordnance Department was that soldiers would waste ammunition by firing too rapidly with repeating rifles, and thus denied a government contract for all such weapons. They did, however, encourage the use of breech-loading carbinewhich is also single-shot like most firearms of the day, but is shorter than standard rifles and thus more suited to mounted warfare [9] More accurately, they feared that the Army's logistics train would be unable to provide enough ammunition for the soldiers in the field, as they already had grave difficulty bringing up enough ammunition to sustain armies of tens of thousands of men over distances of hundreds of miles. A weapon able to fire several times as fast would require a vastly expanded logistics train and place great strain on the already overburdened railroads and tens of thousands of more mules, wagons, and wagon train guard detachments. Its unit cost several times that of a Springfield Model rifled musket also stood in the way. Lincoln was deeply impressed with the weapon, and ordered Gen. James Wolfe Ripley to adopt it for production. Ripley disobeyed the order and continued to use the old single-shooters. The Spencer repeating rifle was first adopted by the United States Navyand later by the United States Armyand it was used during the American Civil Warwhere it was a popular weapon. Gettysburg was the first major battle of the war where Spencer rifles were From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms, as they had recently been issued to the 13th Pennsylvania Reserves. They were used at the Battle of Chickamauga and had become fairly widespread in the Western armies by Repeater rifles for comparison were rare in the Army of the Potomac. Wilder 's "Lightning Brigade" of mounted infantry effectively demonstrated the firepower of repeatersand the Gettysburg Campaignwhere two regiments of the Michigan Brigade under Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer carried them at the Battle From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms Hanover and at East Cavalry Field. At the Battle of Nashville9, mounted infantrymen armed with the Spencer, under the command of Maj. James H. Wilsonchief of cavalry for the Military Division of the Mississippi, rode around Gen. Hood's left flank and attacked from the rear. President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth was armed with a Spencer carbine at the time he was captured and killed. The Spencer showed itself to be very reliable under combat conditions, with a sustainable rate-of-fire in excess of 20 rounds per minute. Compared to standard muzzle-loaders, with a rate of fire of 2—3 rounds per minute, this represented a significant tactical advantage. Similarly, the supply chain was not well prepared enough to transport the extra ammunition. Detractors also complained that the amount of smoke produced was such that it was hard to see the enemy, which was not surprising since even the smoke produced by muzzleloaders would quickly blind whole regiments, and even divisions as if they were standing in thick fog, especially on still days. One of the advantages of the Spencer was that its ammunition was waterproof and hardy, and could stand the constant jostling of long storage on the march, such as Wilson's Raid. The story goes that every round of paper and linen Sharps ammunition From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms in the supply wagons was found useless after long storage in supply wagons. Spencer ammunition had no such problem owing to the new technology of metallic cartridges. Rusling of the Quartermaster's Dept. In the late s, the Spencer company was sold to the Fogerty Rifle Company and ultimately to Winchester. Even though the Spencer company went out of business inammunition was manufactured in the United States into the s. Later, many rifles and carbines were converted to centerfirewhich could fire cartridges made from the centerfire. The original archetype of rimfire ammunition can still be obtained on the specialty market. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. World's first military metallic-cartridge repeating rifle. Type of Lever-action rifle. The Rifle Story. Greenhill Books. Archived from the original on 7 September Retrieved 17 April The fire-rate of the Spencer was usually reckoned as fourteen shots per minute. Retrieved National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution. CivilWar Smithsonian. Retrieved 9 September University Press of Kentucky. Army of the Cumberland. Archived from the original on 17 April Civil War Weapons and Equipment. Globe Pequot Press. Doc 15— Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Iola, Wisconsin: Gun Digest Books. Almanac of American Military History. Crowood Press, Limited. Earl J. Coates and Dean S. Ian V. HoggWeapons of the Civil War. Barnes, Cartridges of the World. Spencer Repeating From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms Sherman, William T. Memoirs Volume 2 - contains an account of the success of the Spencer on combat pp. Weapons of the American Civil War. Double-barreled shotgun Ketchum grenade Winans Steam Gun. Coehorn mortar. Bomford Columbiad cannon Brooke rifled cannon Carronade cannon Dahlgren cannon Paixhans cannon Rodman Columbiad cannon Whitworth pounder rifled cannon. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. M Spencer rifle. United States. Christopher Spencer. Mortars Coehorn mortar. Spencer repeating rifle - Wikipedia From Musket to Metallic Cartridge is an historical introduction to the use of black powder firearms, from the primitive smooth-bore musket to breech-loading cartridge guns, as well as a primer on their practical use for today's black powder shooters. Drawing on his experience of countless hours on the shooting range, backed up by meticulous research, Oyvind Flatnes relates over years of development and covers the huge range of different ignition systems, models and patents. He describes the use of antique firearms and replicas, discussing their historical and safe modern use. The book is profusely illustrated throughout, with both photographs and diagrams, showing a range of guns and their ammunition, with some live firing shots showing them in action. Add to cart. I also found it to be a great study into the history and development of the firearm from the very beginning, up to the transition to smokeless powder in the late s. In it, there are several pages about loading for the Chassepot, but the real value is in the history of progress of blackpowder arms from the s to modern day. In addition, there is much valuable info on all aspects of developing good loads. It's the kind of thing we LEND to new club members to get them on the right track at the beginning, but you see oldies with 50 years shooting behind them leafing through it. Probably hoping to pick up that clue that will give them the edge over the young roosters. John " Review Type: Customer Posted By: John Drummond " Norwegian black powder shooter, competitor, and historian Oyvind Flatnes's excellent, well-researched book on the history and technological development of black powder firearms really hits the "X ring. As a historian of the From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms century, I have a shelf of books about the subject, many of From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms go into considerable detail, and even minutiae on the subject. Flatnes's book is compact, filled with lush photos and clear, explanatory images and is written to appeal to several audiences, namely "shooters, collectors, gun enthusiasts and historians. The book urges collectors to take up shooting their specimens, historians to get out of the library and get "hands on" at the range or in the field, and provides an excellent history for firearm enthusiasts.