One tangible connection to the human cost of the Civil War can be found in the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Ky., in the form of a beautifully engraved Henry repeating rifle, serial number 19. Posted on 10/17/2018 4:58:23 AM PDT by w1n1
One tangible connection to the human cost of the Civil War can be found in the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Ky., in the form of a beautifully engraved Henry repeating rifle, serial number 19.
The rifles were highly prized on the battlefield. Confederates described the Henry as "that darn Yankee rifle that they load on Sunday and shoot all week."
THE PROGENITOR of the Winchester repeaters, the Henry was a technological marvel in its time. It fired a .44-caliber, self-contained, metallic, rim-fire primed cartridge. The magazine held 15 shots, and one more could be loaded in the chamber, giving it more firepower than any other rifle on the battlefield.
It was accurate by the standards of the day too, equipped as it was with a graduated ladder rear sight.
Army tests showed it could keep 100 percent of its shots inside a 25-inch circle at 500 yards and a 48-inch circle at 1,000. Read the rest of Henry rifle.
Look, to me the cool factor is off the chart with the Henry but the Marlin is more practical.
Exactly.
I never said I was a smart feller.
--I find that hard to believe---
Weapons during the civil war were very accurate. I have a repro enfield 3 band rifled musket and it is dead on accurate.
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