Sharps Rifle USA 1859

Sharps Rifle USA 1859. Vekt 2780 gram og lengde 125 cm.

Alle våpenkopier fra Denix er laget i en zink-legering som gir samme vekt og størrelse  som originalene. All mekanisme fungerer som på originalene. De kan IKKE skytes med (heller ikke løs-krutt) og heller ikke bygges om til å skytes med. Kun til dekorasjon og samling. Det er ikke lov å bære våpenkopier på offentlig sted. Husk at bare synet av et våpen kan virke skremmende på mange og at event. misbruk av våpenkopier straffes på lik linje med vanlige våpen.

OBS: Innregnet i prisen på varen er et frakttillegg på kr 400,- inkl.mva. som Posten tar for å sende pakker som er lengre enn 120 cm.

Sharps rifle replica manufactured in metal and wood with simulating mechanism of loading and firing.

The Sharps rifle, created from the design of Christian Sharps in 1848, had a draw bolt that in addition to being able to use a standard fulminating capsule, had a rather unusual mechanism of priming. It contained a column of fulminating capsules and put one on the chimney each time the trigger was pressed and the hammer fell, making it easier to shoot. Compared with other rifles of the time, it was a very precise rifle, mainly due to its high firing rate by the high-load back-up mechanism and high quality manufacture.

The Sharps rifle was used during and after the Civil War. It was expensive to manufacture, so only 11,000 units of the Model 1859 were manufactured, which were used by the 13th Regiment of Reservists of Pennsylvania until it was dissolved in 1864.

Sharps versions were made for hunting from the late 1840s until the late 1880s. After the Civil War, the surplus converted rifles were transformed into custom weapons and the Sharps factory produced the Model 1869 and 1874 rifles in large quantities for commercial bison hunters. The rifle became an icon of the Old West due to its use in several films and books.