All in near new, unused condition with only a few spots of minor freckling on the barrel. It also has a long upper tang as found on Hawken rifles which also helps to reinforce and strengthen the wrist. MODEL 1873." The rifle is fitted with double set triggers housed in a Hawken-style flowing trigger guard and the butt stock has a cheek piece plus curved butt plate with toe plate. The lock plate is unmarked and the breech block is marked "U.S. It also has sling swivel studs- one in the butt stock and one attached to a thimble under the barrel.
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The stock has a pewter tip and double cleaning rod thimbles to hold the cleaning rod. The striped maple stock shows rich color and is double-keyed or "wedged" to hold the barrel.
Twist on 1873 springfield trapdoor full#
It is fitted with a blued 28" octagon barrel with Rocky Mountain blade front sight and Sharps style Lawrence full buckhorn ladder rear sight with slide.
Twist on 1873 springfield trapdoor serial number#
This rifle uses a Trapdoor action with serial number 460XXX from 1889 (making this rifle an antique and not requiring an FFL for purchase). 5 1/2 Montana rifle with the wiping rod under the barrel as factory production models for the frontier. Interestingly, Ballard produced their No.5 Pacific rifle and No. He was especially known for his Spencer conversions as well as Sharps and Trapdoor Springfields. Gemmer was known to take cartridge guns and re-barrel and re-stock them in the Hawken muzzle loader style. He operated the shop until 1915 and saw the great transition from muzzle loaders to cartridge guns. Gemmer purchased the famed Hawken shop (makers of the famous Plains Rifle prized by the mountain men and frontiersmen of the fur trade era) in St. 45-70 SPRINGFIELD TRAPDOOR OCTAGON SPORTER! Obviously a great deal of time and money was spent building this really beautiful custom rifle. The Springfield Armory made some long range special rifles for the Creedmore matches with a special 6 groove barrel at 18.5 twist and chambered for the 2.4' (45-80) case. 2) UNUSUAL AND ATTRACTIVE FULL CUSTOM "GEMMER" STYLE.
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