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Prototype TubeMagazine Trapdoor Springfield
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/ forgottenweapons • https://www.floatplane.com/channel/Fo... • Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forg... • This experimental repeating conversion of a Trapdoor Springfield was most likely made by Augustine Sheridan Jones, of the Dakota Territory in the 1880s. We know he submitted a different type of magazine-fed Trapdoor to the US military’s 1882 repeating rifle trials, and this rifle also came out of South Dakota. • At any rate, what the designer did was to, remarkably, figure out a functional way to add a tube magazine to the Trapdoor system. It even has a magazine cutoff feature, allowing it to be run as a single shot rifle with the magazine held in reserve, or as a repeater…
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