Thread: +p ammo

Originally Posted by A330driver

What is a Trapdoor rifle?

January 2020. In firearms, a trapdoor is a form of breech-loading mechanism for rifles in which a hinged breechblock rotates up and forward, resembling the movement of a trapdoor. The Springfield models 1865 and 1873 were best known for first employing this type of action.

I did not know this!

Trapdoor closed, trapdoor open.
1884 model, made in 1890. The Americans hung on long after other nations had moved on to what had been a conversion system for muzzle loaders. The British pretty quickly moved on from the snider which was similar in principle.