Since the lines between the forestock and the walnut dowel glued into the cleaning rod channel are barely discernible, it is obvious that a skilled woodcrafter did this work. Still, I reassembled the rifle and hung it in my collection room. The only Spencer arms I had ever handled in detail was a tin-plated M1860 Navy rifle on display in the Marine Corps’ museum and two others (a carbine and an Army rifle) that had been donated to the museum in the 1970s. I must admit that, at the time, I really didn’t know any more about Spencer rifles than could be expected of a retired military museum curator who had never before personally owned one. I was beginning to get worried, as my new gun only had two barrel bands on it, and I had not yet been able to find enough information about M1865 Spencer rifles to confirm whether they were supposed to have two bands, or three, like the M1860 Spencer rifle. However, while cleaning the rifle, I was concerned about the odd-looking barrel bands on it and the seemingly well-worn wooden fore stock. Courtesy of American Rifleman magazine, photographed by Forrest MacCormack. The ‘Frankenspencer’ rifle from Ridgeway, with its two barrel bands- and they are spaced oddly apart. Peter Vronsky’s book on the 1866 Battle of Ridgeway, Number 5 Company (No 5 Coy) of Toronto’s “Queen’s Own Rifles” (QOR), 2nd Battalion, Canadian Militia, had exchanged their muzzle-loading Enfield rifles for 49 M1865 Spencer breechloading repeaters (nine carbines and 40 rifles) the day before the battle. I needed the rifle for two reasons: First, to illustrate an article that I was writing on the guns of the 1866 Fenian Raid for (published in September 2020) and, secondly, to display in an exhibit of Fenian arms that a group of friends and I used to set up each year at the annual Maryland Irish Festival near Baltimore, Md. Moreover, according to the Roy Marcot’s comprehensive book on Spencer arms, the company only made about 2,500 of these rifles, so my chances of ever finding another one were fairly slim. I was delighted to have this rifle, as its serial number, 2425, was within the range of the known 2,000-some M1865 Spencer rifles that the Canadians had purchased in 1866 to confront the Fenian threat from the United States. Save Up To 66% Off MyPillow with Promo Code TIMBROWN.Preparing Also Means Detoxifying – Here’s One Simple Way To Detoxify.Stockpile Your Ammo & Save $15 On Your First Order.Here’s A Way You Can Stockpile Food For The Future.Build Your Own Food Forest & Save 5% With Promo Code TIMBROWN.Grab This Bucket Of Heirloom Seeds & Get Free Shipping With Promo Code TIM.How To Protect Yourself From 5G, EMF & RF Radiation.The Canadian government acquired more than 2,000 M1865 Spencer rifles in 1866, and 2425 fits in the range of the serial numbers on those guns. While the rifle was disassembled on my workbench for weeks on end, I examined the interior parts and took photographs of them. I bought the rifle, and after it arrived on my doorstep, I spent quite a few evenings cleaning out its badly rusted bore. While it wasn’t what I would call cheap, it was still far below the asking price for a Civil War-era. M1865 Spencer Rifle in that was being advertised for sale on an internet site by an antique arms dealer in California. In the summer of 2017, Ross Jones, my newly found friend in Quebec, and fellow co-author on an article about Fenian guns in the Journal of the Company of Military Historians, alerted me to a. The pistol also has a working safety.During the folk music revival of the 1960s, the American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton penned the line, “It’s a lesson too late for the learning,” in one of his greatest hit songs, The Last Thing On My Mind. Hopefully, the following saga will be a lesson that is, indeed, not too late to learn by collectors of antique and vintage arms, and may help them “not to do as I have done” (another bow to the 1960s music scene) when working on old guns. The AMT Backup belongs to the Pistols and Pocket Guns categories in-game and has 46 parts. The following weapons appear in the video game World of Guns: Gun Disassembly: 8 Missile Launchers and Grenade Launchers.5.34 Remington 1858 "Cattleman's Carbine".5.13 Henry Lever Action Octagon Frontier.5.9 Cheyenne Tactical M200 Intervention.
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