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Musket to Big-Bore Rimfire: the Roberts Short-Frame Conversion (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-03-29 12:00:01 +0000 UTCBrigadier General Benjamin Stone Roberts designed and patented a fall-block style of breech loading conversion to .58 Rimfire. Over the course of the decade after the Civil War, he was able to sell approximately 23,000 of these conversions. The work was done by the Providence Tool Company, and included two main patterns - the early short frame and the later long frame. This example is a short frame gun, probably from a 5,000-gun contract to Brazil.
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Guido Schriewer
still.. trapdoor carbine good old 45/70. preferable with some newer better cases though.
Guido Schriewer
the length most likely in jungles.
Forgotten Weapons
Unfortunately, the references I found don't explain the Brazilian complaints.
Matisse Enzer
What did Brazil not like?
Forgotten Weapons
No, I have not yet been able to handle one.
Kerwin Kerr
Ian, have you made any videos on the Mexican FX-05 'Xiucoatl assault rifle?
