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Tube-Magazine Trapdoor Springfield (Patreon)

Published:
2020-08-01 19:33:09
Imported:
2021-03

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Prototype Tube-Magazine Trapdoor Springfield

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Anonymous

I got to handle a rifle from a private collection that was another attempt to improve the Springfield design. On this model, giving the hammer a good push forward with the right hand palm dropped the breech block and ejected the spent cartridge. With the breech block dropped down, a fresh cartridge could be inserted. Pulling the hammer back to firing position. raised the breech block back into firing position. I forget the name given to this innovation and I don't know who the collector was. I saw the rifle at Ft. Larned, Kansas in a presentation on the evolution of US Army rifles. The email of the park employee who made the presentation was 'Michael_Seymour@nps.gov' if anyone wants to find out more about the rifle. I don't know if he is still working for the Park Service as this all happened back in 2008.

Anonymous

Was there ever such a thing as Trapdoor thumb. Getting your drill mixed up in all the excitement and slamming the breech block down with your left hand before you had your right hand out of the way.

Anonymous

Really cool. I wounder if anyone ever shot a buffalo with that rifle? Thanks

Tiger in man's clothing

That is a genius, though inefficient, adaptation for a magazine Trapdoor rifle. It makes me wonder "in whose basement the box magazine version of the Trapdoor hiding."

Anonymous
>>42466889

The exact history of the rifle is uncertain. But from what is guessed at it probably came about after the almost extinction of the buffalo.

Anonymous
>>42482849

And the belt-fed conversion too! ;) That is a very, VERY cool attempt to (possibly) get around the glacially slow progression of U.S. Ordnance with something that they could (maybe) adopt without a lot of drama.