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| Meriden Manfg Co. Model Triplett & Scott Rifle. CAL: 50 R.F. MF...
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$1785
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2024-05-31 17:01:00 |
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Meriden Manfg Co. Model Triplett & Scott Rifle. CAL: 50 R.F. MFG: 1864-66, SN: NONE, Swivel breech loading rifle, 30'' round barrel. Two piece straight grain American walnut, with hand rubbed oil finished is in very good condition for age, with very few scratches or dings. One 1/4'' chip & 1 1/2'' light grain crack where handgrip joins magazine in stock. Barrel/receiver/ buttplate/barrel band/trigger guard steel is turning age induced brown/grey patina with some moderate rust speckling & no pitting visible. Marked on left side of receiver:, '' KENTUCKY- MERIDEN MANGF. CO. MERIDEN CONN.'' On upper receiver tang: ''TRIPLETT & SCOTT - PATENT DEC 6, 1864''. Rear sight is a blade w/ flip up elevator with no graduation numbers. Front sight is a heavy inverted ''V'' blade. Bore is very good, with some small sections of light pitting. This rifle was issued to Kentucky Home Guard troops who were assigned to protect the supply lines of the Union Army under General Sherman's command. A unique & truly strange two-piece design, with the breech face, firing controls, magazine and buttstock as the rear most assembly, attached to the firing chamber, barrel and forend assembly by a pivoting joint. The gun used a seven round tubular magazine in the buttstock, similar the Spencer, but it was not removable. The magazine tube was situated off center to the left, along the toe line of the stock. This design left almost no wood in the buttstock over the magazine tube and left the wrist very weak. As a result almost every Triplett & Scott has a severe crack, and often wood loss. To operate the action of the gun the hammer was placed on half cock, and a thumb release catch was depressed on the rear of the receiver. This allowed the shooter to rotate the forward half of the receiver to the right (clockwise) and as the forward portion rotated an automatic ejector would extract the spent cartridge case from the receiver, dumping it on the ground. As the forward portion of the receiver was rotated further around, it pushed a spring-loaded door, which covered the magazine tube, open. This allowed a cartridge to be fed into the firing chamber. Rotating the action back to the left (counter clockwise) closed and locked the action, and cocking the hammer fully made the gun ready for firing. While this seems like a convoluted and complicated system, it did work and with training a solider could operate the gun with some efficiency. This rifle's action is tight & mechanically sound. Unusual two slings swivels attached at heal & toe of buttstock. NO FFL Req - Value: 1000 to 3000
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