Spencer repeating rifle - Wikipedia
The Spencer is a lever-action repeating rifle designed by Christopher Spencer in 1860. It uses a falling breechblock mounted in a carrier. Firing forces are contained by the receiver at the rear of the breechblock. Actuating the loading lever causes the breechblock to fall.
Spencer Rifle History: The Repeating 7-Shot Wonder
2019年10月14日 · The War Department was directed to order the Spencer repeating rifle, and by war's end, some 230,000 had been produced, initially by Spencer and later by the Burnside Rifle Company in Providence, RI. It was the second most widely used …
1865 Spencer - Taylor's Firearms
The Spencer is one of the first repeating rifles and contains a magazine tube in the buttstock.
SPENCER REPEATING RIFLES CO. - Blue Book Of Gun Values
The new carbine was designated the Spencer M1865 carbine. Nearly 19,000 were produced by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company and another 30,500 by the Burnside Rifle Company, although all were delivered too late to see action in the Civil War.
Spencer Repeating Rifle, Christopher Spencer, Civil War
2022年9月29日 · The Spencer Rifle was a lever-action repeating rifle that held seven metallic cartridges in the stock — or rear — of the rifle. To fire, the lever was moved back and forth, which ejected a spent — or used — cartridge case and load a new one.
The Spencer Repeating Rifle Saved 'A Thousand Lives' During …
2022年4月18日 · The Spencer Repeating Rifle was a manually operated lever-action rifle designed by Christopher Spencer in 1860. It was initially produced as a carbine, but was later developed to feature a repeater with a rotating block, which fired rimfire cartridges into the chamber by means of a tubular magazine.
The Spencer Repeating Rifle - Company I, The Bucktails
The design for a magazine-fed, lever-operated rifle chambered for the .56-56 Spencer rimfire cartridge was completed by Christopher Spencer in 1860. Called the Spencer Repeating Rifle, it was fired by cocking a lever to extract a used case and …
The Spencer Repeating Rifle Company was in existence for a relatively short period of time, from inception in January 1862 until completion in December 1868. During these short six years the company focused on production of military con-tract rifles …
1865 Spencer Repeating Carbine - Civil War Arsenal
The Spencer is considered the first successful repeating carbine to fire a metallic cartridge. Men from both the North and South agreed that the Spencer had a hand in turning the tides of the War in favor of the North. The inventor of the weapon was Christopher Miner Spencer.
Repeating Rifles & Carbines - Fort Tribute
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.