The breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland, hence the Ferguson rifle.
He wasn't American, he was a Scot. The breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland, hence the Ferguson rifle.
The Ferguson Rifle
It was invented in 1851 by Edward Maynard
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The breech loading musket and later, the rifle.
His favorite rifle was named Lucretia Borgia and it was a .48 caliber breech loading Springfield which he claimed to have killed 4,250 buffalo with in a single twelve month period.
If there are any they usually are on the barrel close to the loading breech or above the trigger.
ANSWER In the order: the rifled muskets, the miniè bullet, the breech-loading rifle, the repeating carbine and rifle.
sharps carbine
Serial numbers are usually on the left side of the barrel near the breech (loading port)
Serial numbers are usually on the left side of the barrel near the breech (loading port)