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![]() SHARPSHOOTING RIFLES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, Colt, Sharps, Spencer and Whitworth
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SHARPSHOOTING RIFLE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, Colt, Sharps, Spencer, and Whitworth by Martin Pegler. Softbound, 7�x10�, 80 pages. During the Civil War the North�s sharpshooters preferred the Sharps rifle, an innovative breech-loading weapon employing a falling-block action. It had double-set triggers, aiding accuracy, and could fire up to ten shots per minute--more than three times the rate of fire offered by the standard-issue Springfield .58-caliber rifled musket. The Sharps was expensive and military planners believed it would encourage soldiers to waste ammunition. After a prolonged fight with the Ordnance Department, however, Berdan succeeded in procuring Sharps rifles for his men. Other Union sharpshooters were equipped with the standard-issue Springfield rifled musket, the .56-56-caliber Spencer Repeating Rifle--a lever-action weapon with a seven-round tube magazine--or �target rifles,� basically sporting rifles repurposed for military use.
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