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MaxonShooters

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1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
« on: February 28, 2009, 03:29:09 PM »
i would like to know if anyone has seen the cutout on the rightside of the stock just forward of the hammer plate.

is this a custom modification or a arsenal re-fit?

all help in this matter is greatly appreciated

thanks in advance

Albert
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Re: 1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2009, 04:22:56 PM »
No clue. Nice looking rifle though. Do you shoot it ?
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Re: 1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2009, 05:34:57 PM »
I'm guessing - and that is all it is - that this is a retrofit of the breechblock, probably replacing a flintlock or percussion cap mechanism. Doubt that it was an arsenal refit, too sloppy. I do not think they would have left the big hole where the old mechanism sat, but again, that is just a guess.
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Re: 1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2009, 06:19:45 PM »
 That how the arsenals refit them after the Civil War when they converted the tens of thousands of Springfield percusion rifles to 45/70 cartridge single shots (the guns that got Custer killed, the INDIANS had the Winchesters   ;D  ). But I don't know about that  long milled out area in the stock. In replacing the lock plate there was no reason to do that.
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Re: 1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2009, 07:01:18 PM »
This is the closest thing I could find with something called a "Metcalfe attachment"........:


http://www.trapdoorcollector.com/rockwell.html

http://www.trapdoorcollector.com/cgi-bin/afrasca/bulletin/config.pl?read=9147



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Re: 1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
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Re: 1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2009, 07:33:42 PM »
http://www.cornellpubs.com/Templates/Peabody-Martini-1873.htm

This shows how the Metcalfe Cartridge Block Attachement worked.  This one on a Peabody-Martini rifle.  Look at Plate 9.
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Re: 1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2009, 07:49:04 PM »
Ah-ha....so that's how it worked...... ;)
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Re: 1873 Springfield trapdoor?!?
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2009, 08:27:17 PM »
It looks like a... Clip.   ;D
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