Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG weird Civil War Rifle
From: neal at photoneal.com (Neal Friedenthal)
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:51:34 -0500
 
In my continuing project to catalog the arms in my collection I recently 
took this of what is probably the oddest of all Civil War rifles, the 
Green Rifle.  It is a bolt action breech loading percussion rifle. I 
fires a combustible paper cartridge which is ignited by a percussion cap 
which is placed on a nipple on the bottom of the barrel, subsequently 
the hammer is also under the barrel. The bore is oval shaped and appears 
smooth but is indeed rifled. A true oddity only 900 were purchased by 
the US government.
http://www.photoneal.com/picture.php?/89/category/3
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