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Circa 1870s INDIAN WARS Burnside-Spencer CARBINE .50 Caliber Spencer Saddle Ring Cavalry Carbine!
Guns International #: 101498993 Seller's Inventory #: 190135
Category: Burnside Rifles - Spencer Rifles
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Seller: AncestryGunsLLC
Company: Ancestry Guns LLC
Member Since: 11/3/16
State: Missouri
Zip: 65203
Country: United States
Phone: (314) 707-7373
International Phone: 314-707-7373
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Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
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Description:
Circa 1870s INDIAN WARS Burnside-Spencer CARBINE
.50 Caliber Spencer Saddle Ring Cavalry Carbine!
Here we present an antique Burnside Contract Spencer Cavalry Carbine, made circa 1865 in Boston, Massachusetts, during the Civil War. These lever-operated, breech-loading rifles were marvels of the time and had a lasting impact on how war was to be fought in the future. Though their service life in the U.S. military was relatively short, the Spencer story includes Christopher Spencer, the inventor of the rifle, demonstrating and shooting with President Abraham Lincoln, who gave his full endorsement of the piece. Supposedly, during the battle at Gettysburg, a captured Rebel that day said one could “load in the morning and fire all day!” This was due to the Spencer’s most endearing quality: a 7-round magazine tube in the butt of the gun. This gave the shooter phenomenal firepower in a day when most soldiers were muzzle-loading single shots or even singly loading their breech-loading carbines. This is one of the iconic carbines of the Civil War and Western Frontier. These would go on to fight during the Indian Wars with the cavalry.
In the latter part of the war Edward M. Stabler of Maryland invented the Stabler Cut-Off Device. It prevented the cartridge from feeding the magazine to the receiver by limiting the lowering of the breech block. The carbine could then be used as a single shot weapon. A few of these equipped carbines, as is this one, were manufactured by the Spencer factory, plus 19,000 of the 30,496 of the Burnside Spencers were equipped with the Stabler Cut-Off Device and had the bores relined to .50 caliber, like this one.
The overall condition is good. The iron parts have a gray patina. Some of the markings are quite worn. The walnut stock is in generally good shape with the exception of the split along the magazine tube in the butt stock. The crack is stable and gives it the look of a carbine that has been there and done that. The bore is in very good condition with nice rifling. The action remains excellent.
Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 22 inches.
Caliber: .50 Spencer
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$2450
#190135
SOLD
Antique: Yes