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To: elcid1970

“The rifle he used looks like an H&R.”

The rifle in the picture is a “break open” type which the Springfield is not. The Springfield is called a trap door because of the hinged breach that is lifted to insert the cartridge. By the way I have a real Springfield carbine made in 1878.


27 posted on 12/14/2017 7:43:01 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

Well, I do own a Springfield Officer’s Model trapdoor rifle made by H&R in 1971, but I did point out that the hog hunter’s rifle appears to be a break action single shot; googled & came up with the H&R Handi Rifle which is based on the Topper shotgun, but comes in several rifle calibers.

BTW, I also own an original trapdoor Springfield 1866 converted from a muzzleloading 1863 model. Indians discovered the difference to their dismay at the Wagon Box Fight in 1867.

;^)


30 posted on 12/14/2017 7:59:05 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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