![]() ![]() The bolt contained a firing pin that used the existing percussion hammer, so no changes were required to the lock. Once loaded, the bolt was closed and latched in place, holding the round securely in place. The conversion consisted of filing out (or later milling out) the rear of the barrel, and attaching a folding bolt, the "trapdoor", that flipped up and forwards to allow the cartridge to be loaded in the breech. A good example is the "trapdoor" or Allin action used in early cartridge conversions of 1863 Springfield muzzleloading rifles. There were also early breech-loading single-shot rifles such as the Hall, Ferguson, and Sharps.Īlmost all of the early cartridge-fed rifles were single-shot designs, taking advantage of the strength and simplicity of single-shot actions. Muzzle loaders included the Brown Bess, Charleville and Springfield Model 1861 muskets, the Kentucky and Mississippi rifles, and the duelling pistol. Notable pre-cartridge era single-shot firearms included matchlock, wheellock, snaplock, doglock, miquelet lock, flintlock, and percussion cap firearms. However, multi-barrel, breechloading, revolving, and other multi-shot firearms had been experimented with for centuries. The vast majority of firearms before the introduction of metallic cartridges in the 1860s were single-shot muzzleloaders. ![]()
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