In 1873 Winchester introduced the steel-framed Model 1873 chambering the more potent. 44 Henry cartridge, was likewise built on a bronze-alloy frame, and had an improved magazine and a wooden forearm. The company modified and improved the basic design of the Henry rifle, creating the first Winchester rifle: the Model 1866. Confederates called the Henry "that damned Yankee rifle that they load on Sunday and shoot all week!" DevelopmentĪfter the war, Oliver Winchester renamed New Haven Arms the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. This became the Henry rifle of 1860, which was manufactured by the New Haven Arms Company, and used in considerable numbers by certain Union army units in the American Civil War. Henry also supervised the redesign of the rifle to use the new ammunition, retaining only the general form of the breech mechanism and the tubular magazine. īenjamin Henry continued to work with Smith's cartridge concept and perfected the much larger, more powerful. Oliver Winchester purchased the bankrupt firm's assets from the remaining stockholders and reorganized it as the New Haven Arms Company in April 1857. Volcanic moved to New Haven in 1856, but by the end of that year became insolvent. Wesson had left Volcanic soon after it was formed and Smith followed eight months later, to create the Smith & Wesson Revolver Company. 32 caliber "Rocket Balls" were little match for the competitors' larger calibers. Although the Volcanic's repeater design far outpaced the rival technology, the unsatisfactory power and reliability of the. The Volcanic rifle had only limited success, which was partially attributable to the design and poor performance of the Hunt-derived Volcanic cartridge: a hollow conical ball filled with black powder and sealed by a cork primer. 22 Short, would be introduced commercially in 1857 with the landmark Smith & Wesson Model 1 revolver and is still manufactured today. While still with the company Smith went a step further and added a cylindrical copper case to hold the bullet and powder with the primer in the case rim, thus creating one of the most significant inventions in firearms history, the metallic rimfire cartridge. įor the Volcanic rifle, Smith added a primer charge to Hunt's "Rocket Ball" and thus created one of the first fixed metallic cartridges which incorporated bullet, primer and powder in one self-contained unit. Its largest stockholder was Oliver Winchester. Smith made several improvements to the Jennings design, and in 1855 Smith and Wesson together with several investors formed a corporation, the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, to manufacture Smith's modification of the Hunt-Jennings, the Volcanic lever-action pistol and rifle. Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson of Norwich, Connecticut, acquired the Jennings patent from Robbins & Lawrence, as well as shop foreman Benjamin Tyler Henry. Hunt's design was fragile and unworkable, but in 1849, Lewis Jennings purchased the Hunt patents and developed a functioning, if still complex, version which was produced in small numbers by Robbins & Lawrence of Windsor, Vermont until 1852. The Hunt rifle fired what he called the " Rocket Ball", an early form of caseless ammunition in which the powder charge was contained in the bullet's hollow base. In 1848, Walter Hunt of New York patented his "Volition Repeating Rifle" incorporating a tubular magazine, which was operated by two levers and complex linkages. Left to right Carbines two 1873/1894/92/Trapper 92. Graduated rear sights fixed-post front sights United States Canada Japan Chile Mexico Ottoman Empire South Africa Morocco Īmerican Indian Wars Japanese invasion of Taiwan Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) War of the Pacific North-West Rebellion French intervention in Mexico Spanish–American War Boxer Rebellion Second Boer War Mexican Revolution World War I Spanish Civil War World War II Indonesian National Revolution Uprising of 1953 in East Germanyįull-stocked "Musket", Carbine, Sporting model
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