Pick one of the top 3 repeaters of the American civil war

[TGC]

Well the votes are in, here are the top threee long barrel repeaters of the american civil war, the colt revoling rifile did not make the top 3, guess its an unknow to many, Yes the sharp can be considered a repeater as it was fast loading. So you have one vote, pick the best.

I votes the Sharps of its fruther reaching range.

 

[dingus]

I voted Sharps cause i have one and tube feed Repeaters can jam and bugger up with sand and dirt.

The 50 70 was a way better cartridge than the Spencer 56 RF and the 44 Henry,







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[mooncoon]

I voted Sharps cause i have one and tube feed Repeaters can jam and bugger up with sand and dirt.

The 50 70 was a way better cartridge than the Spencer 56 RF and the 44 Henry,

The 50-70 did not come in until after the recent unpleasantness south of the border. The sharps a that time would have been a percussion gun with paper cartridges containing powder and bullet

cheers mooncoon

 

[delta1]

Sharps for the ability to reach out and touch from afar.

 

[dingus]

The 50-70 did not come in until after the recent unpleasantness south of the border. The sharps a that time would have been a percussion gun with paper cartridges containing powder and bullet

cheers mooncoon

Oh ya your Right.
So it was a Taped feed primer with a Paper cartridge made up bullet Correct ?
What was the Charge and bullet weight and veloicty ect of a paper cartridge ?

 

[TGC]

nope not tape, your thinking the 1855 spring field, it did have a box feed system on the side that held 15 copper caps, and has the hammer went forward, it picked up and placed the cap on the nipple and fired it

52 cal, 8 to 10 shorts a min, 500 yard range,1200 ft per sec, i can only guess the podwer chagre would have been 60 plus, have not found that info yet

 

[dingus]

Yes i see mine was a Pellet primer feed before conversion.... i think.
A device that held a stack of pelleted primers that flipped one over the nipple each time the trigger was pulled and the hammer cocked.

Im not sure i would still vote for the sharps until i seen how this pelleted feed worked. Is there any Vids of a Sharps in action being fired like this id like to see it.
It sounds like a hell of a system.
I thought at frist i was voteing for the brass Cartridge Sharps till mooncoon pointed out the Obvious LOL

 

[TGC]

i would still go for the sharps, 8 to 10 rounds a min at 500 yards. and the 1st and 2ed US braden sharpeshoots used them, and they wore green uniforms and you had to be a marksmen before you were enlisted in them,

 

[mooncoon]

Both the Sharps and the Springfield had tape fed versions but I don't think that either was very successful. The Springfield model only lasted a couple years of production and I am not sure about the Sharps.

cheers Mooncoon

 

[Alonzo]

The Slant breech Sharps used the tape primer system, later models used a pellet priming system. Not a well known bit of information actually.
Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[dingus]

The Slant breech Sharps used the tape primer system, later models used a pellet priming system. Not a well known bit of information actually.
Thanks for pointing that out.

Ok good to know so was mine the Tape kind or the Pelleted type ???

 

[RobSmith]

I voted Henry based on the fact that it used the newly-invented and MUCH superior metallic cartridge which was much more water/weatherproof than paper cartridges and could put down a massive (for the time) volume of fire at typical combat ranges.

My understanding is that the Sharps would have been a "specialist" weapon issued to specially trained sharpshooters and as such would have been fairly rare on the battlefield.

 

[Musketfire]

For field use I would say the Spencer.

Very robust design superior to the Henry "in my opinion" for HARD field use.

Imagine being weeks away from a armourer/gunsmith, seems you can fix and clean much of the spencers bits in the field with standard musket tools.

The sharps is a single shot breech loader, not really a repeater "but fantastic aswell"


If someone had a example of each I would like to see a comparitive view side by side.

The spencer strikes me as being more stoutly built.

 

[Musketfire]

Ok good to know so was mine the Tape kind or the Pelleted type ???

I could look at this all day!

 

[TGC]

There is a vid on you tube of the henry and spencer shooting with that x marine sgt on it, you know who i mean, lee somthing

 

[TGC]

One could argue that the sharps was a specialist weapon, true the bredans sharp shooters used them, but a few other regiments used them also, plus there where all those thousnads of carbines for the horse soldiers.

 

[Shelldrake]

Well, I wouldn't consider the Sharps a repeater,, it's a breach loading single shot. I went for the Henry.

 

[TGC]

It was faster loading than the muzzle loaders, so thats why i put it with the repeaters

 

[Brutus]

I thought I read somwhere, that in lew of nitrated paper for the paper cartridge, one could use cigarette rolling paper. This as a modern day replacement option, for the Sharps infantry model breechloading rifle.

 

[TGC]

Might be, do that and lets us know what happens,