Being able to use the ammunition on hand was often a matter of life or death. 45-70 cartridge was available throughout the still sparsely settled West. But a frontiersman often had to special order these custom calibers, while the universally sold. The Model 1876 Winchester came in specially manufactured. In 1876 Winchester had come out with its massive lever-action Model 1876-a giant-sized version of the now-legendary. Army-issue trapdoor Springfield single-shot military rifles and was also common in civilian single-shot rifles on the frontier. 45-70 cartridge, which was the standard caliber of the U.S. After the success of his single-shot rifle manufacturing, Marlin realized that in spite of Winchester’s domination of the repeating rifle business, Winchester had still not manufactured a repeater that fired the popular. And he had been producing the super-accurate Ballard single-shot cartridge rifles since 1875.īorn in 1836-ironically, the same year that Samuel Colt first produced his innovative cap-and-ball revolvers-Marlin worked for Colt before establishing his own company at Hartford, Conn., in 1863. He had been making single-shot cartridge pistols since 1863, and Colt and Smith & Wesson–type revolvers since 1870, after Smith & Wesson’s exclusive patent on cartridge revolvers had expired in 1867. John Mahlon Marlin was not a newcomer to the gun business.
But whether used by the good guys or the bad guys, or by hunters to secure food, the high quality and accuracy of the Marlins quickly gave them a foothold on the frontier.
gunmakers-Colt, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Winchester-the Marlin lever-action repeating rifles were the Johnny-come-latelies of the Old West. Compared to the revolvers and repeating rifles made by the Big Four of U.S.
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