Guns International #: 103171730
Seller's Inventory #: 247843

Category - Springfield Rifles - Trapdoor - Antique Rifles - Cartridge

Category
Springfield Rifles - Trapdoor
Antique Rifles - Cartridge

Antique U.S. SPRINGFIELD M1873 TRAPDOOR .45-70 GOVT Rifle with U.S. BAYONET LITTLE BIG HORN ERA 1876 mfg. U.S. Military Rifle

Description:
Antique U.S. SPRINGFIELD M1873 TRAPDOOR .45-70 GOVT Rifle with U.S. BAYONET

LITTLE BIG HORN ERA 1876 mfg. U.S. Military Rifle

Here we present an antique U.S. Springfield Model 1873 Trapdoor Rifle, made by the Springfield Armory circa April/May of 1876. After the Civil War, the War Department wanted a breech-loading rifle. To be specific, it wanted a breech-loading rifle that would chamber a self-primed, metallic cartridge. Amazingly, despite the adoption of the ill-fated Model 1882 Chaffee-Reese Bolt Action Magazine Rifle, new models of trapdoor rifles continued to be produced and used all the way through the mid-1890s, until finally, the Krag-Jorgensen was adopted.

As white settlers moved into the Great Plains region, they battled the Plains Indian tribes in a series of conflicts known as the Sioux Wars, which lasted from 1854 to 1890. In 1875, the discovery of gold in the Black Hills region of South Dakota brought prospective miners into the area and onto the hunting grounds of the Sioux Indians. The U.S. Army responded to the pleas of the white settlers and miners for protection against the Sioux, and the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 erupted. It was the last major conflict between the U.S. Army and the Sioux tribe. The U.S. continued to see unrest and conflict with the displaced Native Americans during this time, all the way through to the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29th, 1890. Trapdoors continued to see use all the way through the Spanish American War.

This example has a “ESA” cartouche on the left stock, for Ordnance Inspector Erskine S. Allin, inventor of the Allin “Trapdoor” mechanism. This rifle would have been manufactured mere months before the battle at Little Big Horn.

The overall condition is good. Weathered patina throughout. The action is excellent. The bore is bright with nice rifling. The stock has a solid repair at the wrist and is otherwise solid, showing use. There is a faint circle P marking under the stock.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 29-1/2 inches.

Caliber: .45-70 GOVT

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1500

#247543
 

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Antique: Yes