| Springfield Armory, Model: 1888 Trapdoor Springfield, Cal: .45-7...
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Springfield Armory, Model: 1888 Trapdoor Springfield, Cal: .45-70 MFG: 1892, S/N: 546139, Trapdoor single-shot rifle, 32 1/2'' barrel.
CONDITION: The straight wrist black walnut stock is good as being lightly sanded & having a high gloss lacquer added. The stock also has various nicks, dings, gouges, scratches & wear from use/age. The left side of the stock above the trigger is marked with the Inspector cartouche ''SWP 1892'', marking is very faint & barely visible. The bottom of the wrist is marked with a very faint circle ''P'' firing proof. The heal of the stock is stamped with a Faint ''70''. The metal has toned to a even chocolate brown patina with scratches/ding/ wear exposing gun metal gray. The lock plate was blued at some point & is now worn with areas of thinning. The left side of the barrel is stamped with a ''V'' over ''P'' over a eagles head, ''P'', ''A''. The top of the breech block is stamped ''U.S.'', ''MODEL'', ''1884'', the marking is faded. The rear of the Receiver is marked with the S/N. The lock plate is marked with a American eagle, ''U.S.'', ''SPRINGFIELD'', parts of the markings are faded from wear & buffing. Both barrel bands are marked ''U''. The rear bands marking is faded & worn while the front bands marking is crisp. The bore is good. Its bright with spots of light pitting & thinned rifling/roughness at the muzzle. The barrel holds a blade front sight with a Buffington rear sight. The stock carried a steel trapdoor buttplate that's worn gray & has roughness, nothing inside the trapdoor. The upper tang of the buttplate is marked ''U.S.'', ''15''. The stock carries both sling swivels with the stacking loop. Rifle has its Rod Bayonet/ cleaning rod. Antique No FFL Req.
HISTORY: The trapdoor Springfield was one of if not the best conversion of a muzzleloader to a breechloader ever adopted my a world power. The Conversion was invented by Erskine S. Allin, who was the master armorer at the Springfield Arsenal from 1848-1879. his originally conversion was the M1865. it used the original 58 Caliber barrels from the M1863 Muzzleloaders & just added a breech to load cartridges from the rear. In the next design in 1866 it would go to a .50 Cal rim fire round, still using the original barrels they just brazed in a barrel sleeve & bored it to .50 cal. The trapdoor mechanism was also simplified. There would be many more models & updates done through the years until the rifle was adopted formally by the military in 1873, at this time it would be chambered in the .45-70 cartridge that we know today. The 1888 model is the last one that would be produced, they were the same at the 1884 (even marked the same on the gun) but had the new rod bayonet. The military though combining the cleaning rod & the bayonet was a good idea by saving costs & the amount of stuff a solider had to carry. In field testing they bayonets were prone to breaking even with carful use. The military did not learn its lesson & this bayonet design would be seen on the later Krag rifles & the M1903 before they finally realized it was a terrible idea & stopped trying it. Antique No FFL Req. - Value: 700 to 1400
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