Jeff in Ohio
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2015
All the Spencer Model 1860s up to about serial 11,000 were rifles.Really, Then explain this one.
Roy M. Marcot's "Spencer Repeating Firearms" which is the standard reference confirms this.
Only after Spencer finished a contract for Navy rifles, and then a 10,000 unit contract for army rifles did the Spencer company make the first carbines, starting at about serial 11,000.
The Spencer referenced above and pictured on Mr. Ridgeway's fine website, serial 1758, has a rifle buttstock and a rifle receiver (neither made to accept a carbine sling bar), and so this Spencer 1758 is a rifle buttstock and receiver that has been fitted with a carbine barrel and carbine forestock at some time in it's history.
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