OK, so i had to come back here and post this... i just got a Spanish American war 45-70 springfield trapdoor rifle, shes a marvel
this is a pic i found on line, i will take one myself soon of my new lovely...
shes a conversion from a civil war springfield and shes pristine... i plan to shoot her this weekend, i already tracked down a couple boxes of the proper ammo and a bullet mold so i can make my own... shes a cartridge gun, the first standard issue cartridge gun used in America, she has the pop up buffington sight on the barrel and the huxton globe rear sight for 'high ark' shooting just behind the action on the stock...
this is a big game gun if there ever was one, Teddy Roosevelt used them on safari in Africa, buffalo hunters adopted them straight away in the American west, hundreds saw action in Australia as bush guns...
it saw action on nearly every battlefield in the world from 1884 to 1914 and they were still being used to much success against the Russians in Afghanistan right into the 1980s....
this gun is a historymaker... I'm in love O_O