Bob Meinert, FN Marketing Director, introduces FN's first commercial pistol suppressor, the FN Rush 9Ti. CA. It does not appear that those converted rifles were ever issued. The Spencer carbine could fire seven shots rapidly and, therefore, was known as a seven-shooter. The magazine is a metal tube that holds up to seven cartridges, stacked one on top of the other (the tip of the elongated ball to the bottom of the copper cartridge) rather than side by side. The magazine was changed by unlocking the tube at the butt of the stock (twisting the locking plate sideways); sliding the empty tube out; replacing it with another magazine; and locking the new magazine in place.. Both smokeless and Triple 7 black-powder loads are available, with the black-powder cartridges producing about 1,000 fps muzzle velocity, while the smokeless loads clock in at 1,290 fps. The sling bar and ring were neatly removed and a heavy 29"" oc, S O L D ..Martially Marked Spencer Model 1860 Carbine.LAYAWAY?56-56 Spencer. However, I should mention that this replica is not fitted with a Stabler cutoff. 20 inch barrel with 3-groove rifling. The Spencer rifle, however, could hold seven rounds, allowing one to shoot seven times before having to reload. Subscriber Services. Ben Voss FN Product Manager talks about the new FN SCAR 15P ultra-compact rifle-caliber pistol at SHOT Show 2023. The tubular magazine, located in the buttstock, held seven rimfire cartridges. How to reload 56-50 for the 1865 Spencer Carbine - YouTube This is how I reload 56-50 for my 165 Spencer Carbine This is how I reload 56-50 for my 165 Spencer Carbine. But it is for Spencer's concept of a repeating rifle that he is remembered today. To explain in more detail: When the lever was fully down and the breech slide completely free from the tubes opening, a spiral spring and plug propelled the next cartridge into place. 1870S. But a call to Cimarron confirmed that the company is now dutifully removing the plugs so that its replicas have the same firepower as the prototype. But it was the Spencer repeating rifle that really established his name in the pantheon of American inventors. The tube is pulled out for reloading, nothing is actually inserted. Flaydermans Guide to Antique American Firearms and their values. It was deadly accurate on man-size targets out to 300 yards. Retains about 90% arsenal refurbished blue finish on the barrel with scattered moderate freckling. Rare, Fine BURNSIDE-SPENCER Patent Carbine to Rifle Conversion SPRINGFIELD 1 of Only 1,108 Produced! Of course, the Army was slow to acknowledge any gun other than the time-tested single-shot muzzleloader. Following that auspicious beginning, the entrepreneur went on to devise a machine for labeling spools of thread and built a steam-powered horseless carriage far ahead of its time and, consequently, successful only in spooking real horses. Deliveries started in October, and by the end of the year the government received 7,000 carbines. Ordnance authorities had already expended much time, expense and labor in testing, developing and buying these arms, so at the onset of the war (which was only supposed to last about six months) many officials were loath to get too involved in looking at new guns. Others do not fill up enough of the case, leaving considerable air space, and as a result powder positioning becomes critical, which can adversely affect pressures, ignition, velocities and in several instances proved unsafe. (Northbrook: DBI Books, Inc., 1990), 503; Gluckman, Identifying Old U.S. Muskets, Rifles & Carbines, 288;William B. Edwards, Civil War Guns: The complete story of Federal and Confederate small arms: design, manufacture, identification, procurement, issue, employment, effectiveness, and postwar disposal(Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle, 1982), 154. It is suggested to keep pressures within 14,000 to 16,000 psi, with 18,000 psi being considered maximum. However, those carbines were contracted too late to be used in the Civil War.4 The Burnside Rifle Company created 30,496 Spencers that were purchased by private funds for state troops.5, Also, special quick-loading cartridge boxes containing 6, 10 or 13 tin tubes holding seven rounds each were devised by inventor Erastus Blakeslee. It has a cut-off stabler device. However, Garry's original had a remarkably smoother action. With the changes directed to be made to the carbines, deliveries did not start until April 15, 1865, and they continued until the end of October, with a 30,496 M1865 Spencer carbines being delivered. The abrupt cancellation of orders at war's end plunged the company into financial peril. 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The Kiowa losses were 15 killed and several wounded. Lured back to Cheney Brothers with the offer of a job as superintendent, in between his silk ribbon-manufacturing chores he turned his attentions to designing a repeating firearm. With the action closed, the hammer was then cocked, and the Spencer was ready to fire again. For recommendation, the average soldier's pay at the time was less than $14.00 each month. The years after the Civil War saw the U.S. Cavalry assigned to various outposts on the frontier, and in 1866, four additional cavalry regiments were organized for frontier duty, with the last two being the U.S. Ninth and 10th Cavalries, better known as Buffalo Soldiers. They, along with the rest of the Army, tried to maintain order and protect against hostile Indian attacks. The new 9mm suppressor can mount easily to any pistol barrel threaded x28 inches and doesn't compromise on sound suppression, gas blowback or recoil. Both guns weigh a tad over eight pounds, have case-hardened receivers and hammers and sport 20-inch barrels and side-mounted saddle rings. Frontier Modified 1860 Spencer Military Rifle. The breech block offered a simple way to load cartridges into to the ready-to-fire position as well as extract used cartridges. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. According to Historian and retired Colonel Arcadi Gluckman, The bullets were conical, grooved and greased, and weighed about 350 grains. 3 Gluckman, Identifying Old U.S. Muskets, Rifles & Carbines, 288. The Spencer carbine manufactured by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company had a 22-inch barrel, rifled with three grooves. There has been no Stabler cut-off added and the original 6-gorove .52 caliber bore remains intact. He pointedly asked Brigadier General James W. Ripley to reconsider his decision. About 95% original blue the barrel. The .56-56 Spencer is a rimfire cartridge. Meet the all-new Taurus Judge Executive Grade, a revolver featuring a hand-polished satin finish, presentation-grade wood grips, a brass rod front sight and an exceptional hand-tuned trigger. The war in Virginia was over a week later on April 9, 1865, with Lees surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. Barrel lacks the 1865 markings and is not numbered. Breechloading carbines such as the .52 Sharps performed similarly. After the war, Spencers continued to be issued to cavalry troopers, eventually being replaced by Springfield Trapdoors. says that the adopted Spencer model had 6 grooves for its rifling, not three.6. RCC has manufactured a reloadable rimfire by creating a primer pocket that is offset to the edge of the rim of the cartridge and a webbing to give it the ability to be reloaded. Excellent bore and mechanics. Spencer had shown his rifle to the Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, in May of 1861, and the navy quickly bought more and more of his rifle; by the end of the war, they had 10,000. The Spencer was the world's first military metallic cartridge repeating rifle, and over 200,000 examples were manufactured in the United States by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. and Burnside Rifle Co. between 1860 and 1869. Still, by mid-1861 Spencer had demonstrated his rifle to a trials board at the Washington Navy Yard, after which the Navy Department put in an order for 700 Spencer rifles (and bayonets), a figure that for production-cost purposes Spencer himself upped by another 300. Many powders simply do not burn predictably or reliably at these lower pressure levels and can give erratic results. The new rifle is built on an aluminum billet chassis with carbon-fiber forend and cheek riser featuring V-block bedding. Caleb Giddings, Marketing Manager at Taurus, introduces the all-new TaurusTX 22 Compact. Naval Commander John A. Dalgren immediately ordered 700 rifles. At 14 years of age, Christopher "Crit" Miner Spencer's first attempt at gun design took place when he sawed off the barrel of his grandfather's Revolutionary War musket to make it easier to carry. The 6mm ARC Cartridge: Why the Military Needed It, SIG Sauer P322 Rimfire Pistol: First Look. And in the pursuit of Lee, until he escaped across the Potomac, those regiments were constantly upon his heels". This is loaded using Swiss black powder and properly headstamped brass (item #STR5650). Apparently, Lincoln was impressed right from the get-go, asking Spencer to explain the workings of the piece and disassemble it in order to "see the inwardness of the thing," which Spencer did. The field reports from 10 officers of the Fourth U.S. Cavalry rated the Spencer carbine the best arm in cavalry service. As of this writing, there is only one company, TEN-X Ammunition (5650 Arrow Highway, Montclair CA 91763, www.tenxammo.com) producing factory fodder. Available charged with either Hodgdon Triple Seven or black powder and a 350-grain lead bullet, it's really great stuff and functions perfectly in my carbine. says that the adopted Spencer model had 6 grooves for its rifling, not three. .52 caliber with a 22" barrel. The Ten-X black-powder loads shot three inches high from point of aim, while the smokeless loads were right on the money elevation-wise. Spencers are still popular in France and often taken afield by some of my friends in l'Arquebusiers de France. Smooth action. The president responded, "Come over tomorrow at 2 o'clock, and we'll see the thing shoot.". In the 1870s many of these guns were converted to centerfire. Six additional carbines were delivered as samples, prototypes and models. . Caleb Giddings, Marketing Manager at Taurus, introduces the all-new TaurusTX 22 Compact. Taurus Marketing Manager Caleb Giddings highlights the features of the new Taurus Raging Hunter 460 Magnum, a purpose-built revolver with a 10.5-inch barrel and an effective recoil-taming brake, with Guns & Ammo Executive Editor Joe Kurtenbach. 2014 Metal is in excellent condition with mino, Converted .50 caliber Spencer carbine to a 20 guage shotgun. One dropped a number of cartridges, nose-first, into the magazine. The Spencer carbine was the first of the successful repeaters, and was afterwards thought to be the most finished and ready weapon of the Civil War., -- William Addleman Ganoe, History of the United States Army, p. 247, This gun was and was adjustable. Bbl. And like the original, the Spencer loads from a spring-loaded tube in the buttstock. Subscriber Services. '", Lincoln kept the rifle, and the next day he took his secretary, John Hay, out for another shooting session, during which Hay described the Spencer as "a wonderful gun, loading with absolutely contemptible simplicity and ease with seven balls and firing the whole readily and deliberately in less than half a minute.". The Burnside receivers were stamped: The Spencer factory carbines had the both the M1860 stamping and the M1865. I know they are now making a modern repro of the Spencer Carbine in 56-56. The Spencer was also very fast to reload, with a 7-round tubular magazine that fed through the buttstock, troopers could carry pre-loaded magazine tubes and reload almost as quickly as a modern shooter exchanges them on a modern magazine fed rifle or pistol. (As an aside, excellent reproductions of the three models of Blakeslee boxes are offered by L. Romano Rifle Co.). They were designed to carry 10 tinned tubes containing seven Spencer cartridges each, giving cavalrymen an additional 70 cartridges at their fingertips. Before developing handloads for the new .56-50 Spencer centerfire, I had a number of questions that are pertinent to handloaders. The Spencer Carbine, or Spencer Repeating Carbine, is an early American-made lever-action carbine first manufactured in 1860. FINE SPENCER 1860 CARBINE IN CALIBER 50 RF GI#: 102191653 20 inch round barrel with 3-groove rifled bore chambered in 50 RF caliber. That was why I could not load all seven rounds in my test gun. Barrel retains quite a bit of original blue that, Spencer Repeating Rifle Company made carbine with a 22 inch round 6-Groove barrel with a bright shiny bore with scattered light roughness and strong rifling. The Spencer Rifle was the customary firearm for the Union cavalry trooper. With the start of the Civil War, Spencer quickly moved into gear, attempting to interest military authorities in his repeating rifle. Eric Poole and Tom Beckstrand test the Aimpoint Acro P-2 against one of red dot sights' biggest myths: distance. On the Model 1860, the flat top surface of the receiver was stamped: As the Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. was completing its contract with the U.S. Army for 7,500 30-inch-barreled Spencer rifles in June 1863, the company requested a contract for an additional 11,000 carbines at $25 each, which was awarded on July 13, 1863. Testimonial upon testimonial arrived at the Spencer works, which by 1863 had relocated to the Chickering Piano-Forte Building in Boston, MA. Then a metal forked tongue and a breech piece called a projection held the cartridge in place at the cartridges tip. The breechblock is then lowered by pulling down on the trigger guard to expose the chamber. Unlike later black-powder cartridges, where the first number denotes grains of powder and the second number gives the caliber, the Spencer .56-56 indicated that both ends of the copper rimfire case were .56 caliber, thus it was an untapered shell. Raising the lever chambered the next round and so on, until all the ammunition was expended. The gun is . . 22" barrel length. Then at the end of the Civil War, the Burnside Rifle Company of Providence, Rhode Island made Spencer carbines to help fill the militarys demand. The TaurusTX 22 Compact delivers class-leading reliability, capacity, and shootability in a 22 LR platform, and it's cut for a slide-mounted mini red dot. This effectively turned the carbine into a single-shot, the other seven cartridges being kept in the magazine in reserve - a device to warm the cockles of any penurious ordnance officer's heart. In no time, orders were forthcoming from commanders wishing to equip their units with it. Now all one had to do was cock the hammer, aim and fire. Receiver and trigger guard show areas, "Spencer Sporting rifle. Spencer Carbine with Stabler Cutoff.LAYAWAY? One of the largest Indian raids into Texas occurred in July 1870. The Judge has been promoted! SN: 36895. Some 3,000 Model 1867 and 2,500 New Models (1868) were also produced, featuring a Spencer patented cutoff on top of the receiver. The new assembly in no way affects the originality of the piece, and the original parts can be reinstalled at any time. This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets. It's worth a check. So be sure you have physical shipping address on your order. Though ballistics were similar, the Spencer had one great advantage - it could be loaded and fired in a fraction of the time that was necessary for either of the other two guns. He buried one of his loaded guns, then dug it up, soaked it in salt water and proceeded to fire it 250 times without cleaning it. Caliber .56-56. By not using a tape primer or percussion caps, the carbine functioned a lot faster than others. These basic questions were asked of the importers (Taylors & Company and Cimarron F.A. m1860 Spencer Civil War Carbine.LAYAWAY? All Rights Reserved. aFlaydermans Guide to Antique American Firearms and their values, 5th ed. Gun appears to have post-war arsenal alterations. 2Norm Flayderman, Flaydermans Guide to Antique American Firearms and their values, 5th ed. Undaunted, Spencer conducted another test that same month, this time for the U.S. Navy. This is a FINE example of the US M-1860 Spencer carbine. Pressures this low are difficult for the hobby handloader to determine using conventional methods such as measuring case head expansion, even when using sensitive calipers that measure as small as 0.0001 inch. 27,393, dated March 6, 1860, was granted to Christopher M. Spencer for his breechloading, repeating design. Spencers also found use in other lands, including Mexico and by the French during the Franco-Prussian War (1871), where many thousands of surplus rifles and carbines saw service. Inspector marks J.J. in front of sling bar, P - on Hammer, This is 52 caliber Civil War Model 1860 carbine. The SCAR 15P is chambered for 5.56 NATO and, with its 7.5-inch barrel, is the most compact SCAR to date. There is even a good case to be made for the Spencer repeating rifle being responsible, in some part, for General George Gordon Meade's victory over Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, where, according to a period account, "The daring and dashing feats of the 5th and 7th Michigan cavalry [armed with Spencers], under the lead of the intrepid [Custer], have become historic. After Spencer put the gun back together, Lincoln asked him if he had any engagements the following day, to which the inventor replied that he did not. In the first issue, it held six tubes of six cartridges each to quickly slide one tube at a time into . The mechanical function is very good and it has a very good bore bright and shiny with strong rifling. Ben Voss FN Product Manager talks about the new FN SCAR 15P ultra-compact rifle-caliber pistol at SHOT Show 2023. To load a Spencer, you must first open the trapdoor in the butt plate and remove the cartridge follower. Camp Guns: Sometimes Perfect, Other Times Not But Often Essential! Stocky's Owner Don Bitz walks David Faubion through the company's new rifle stocks for 2023. Spencer Carbine, .56-56 Spencer, 10%: $900. Appears to have correct sights. Although the article did not say so much about where to get ammo for them. Approximately 60,000 cartridges were sold to the government throughout the Civil War. I found these loads of high quality that offered low extreme spreads, accuracy and reliable functioning. When the lever or breech guard was raised, the motion moved the slide back into position. To fire the Spencer, the lever was opened, which dropped the carrier to pick up a cartridge from the tubed plunger. Two years later, Captain Jack and his Modocs moved into the lava beds of Northern California in late 1872 after a clash with the cavalry, and a portion of the Spencer carbine-armed First U.S. Cavalry and the Warm Springs Indian scouts were sent to force them out of the lava beds. 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His father, Ogden Spencer, agreed to finance his son's gunmaking venture and employed the talents of a gunmaker appropriately named Luke Wheelock. It has a 20 inch barrel. A special replacement follower with a recessed center is available, so there is absolutely no chance of accidental discharge of the centerfire round. In-game Information Players can expect high damage. M1865 Spencer carbines manufactured by the Burnside Rifle Co. and the Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces with 20-inch barrels, and they had an overall. In fact, I was regularly able to ring the 100-yard gong during our session at Angeles Shooting Range (www.angelesranges.com). In 1871, Springfield Armory converted 1,109 M1865 Spencer carbines manufactured by Burnside into rifles, replacing the carbine barrels with 32-inch-long standard M1868 Springfield rifle barrels and fore-ends secured by two barrel bands.
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