I received the following letter from Mr. Ilija Stanislevik who was kind enough to translate certain Russian inscriptions for me. Free shipping and returns on It retains strong rifling and shows scattered light pitting and some frosting along its length. In October of 1853, the Crimean War erupted, pitting the Ottoman Empire and their allies the British, French and Sardinians against the Czarist Russian Empire and their small contingent of allies, including Bulgarian volunteers, the Principality of Mingrelia and for a short time the Kingdom of Greece. 28 1/2 inch barrel with adjustable rear sight and marked at the breech with This M1858 6-Line rifle originally built in 1864 by the large, Belgium, Liege gunmaker Auguste Francotte & Cie (company), has been converted to a M1858 Krnka.. Photo Credit: Another Liege-built M1856 6-Line rifle converted to Krnka, this example manufactured and marked by Beuret Frres (Beuret Brothers), Liege 186(?). While collectors often joke about the hard use seen by surviving Confederate long arms by referring to rough condition guns as Confederate Fine , the abuse those guns suffered was nothing compared to the exceptionally poor treatment that a Russian rifle would often receive in the hands of a Czarist-era peasant conscript! The right side of the breech block is also stamped 174. The rear sight was a distinctive feature, as it was a Swiss-style pivoting leaf of the same pattern that had been used on the Lige-made Russian M1843 Luttich Carbines, which were Belgian-made Russian contract copies of the British Brunswick Rifle. In America, the solution was Erskine Allins Trapdoor system, in England it was the Snider conversion and in France it was the Tabatire. $169.91. A variety of small Cyrillic characters, the marks of workmen and inspectors are found throughout the gun. Like the earlier Russian M1828 and M1839 flintlock muskets, the new percussion M1845 drew heavily on French influences and bore a strong resemblance to the French M1842 Musket, down to the adoption of the back action lock, foregoing the forward action lock that remained standard in the United States, Great Britain and most of Europe, with the exceptions of France and Belgium. B.E. For any collector who specializes in the Russian long arms of the cartridge period, this is the gun that you must have as the initial example in the collection. It was also clear that a new reduced caliber design was the wave of the future. The rear sight was a distinctive feature, as it was a Swiss-style pivoting leaf of the same pattern that had been used on the Lige-made Russian M1843 Luttich Carbines, which were Belgian-made Russian contract copies of the British Brunswick Rifle. View Item in Catalog Lot #811 (Sale Order: 811 of 952) Sold for: $375.00 to onsite "Tax, Shipping & Handling and Internet Premium not included. M1856/69 Russian Krnka Marksman rifle ( ) Photo Courtesy: The nearly identical M1858 Infantry Rifle, We have been wholly unable to find any photo or drawing of the The M1859 Dragoon Rifle (. Photo Credit:Guns.ru/forums.html. These guns are scarce in Russia and are practically never seen for sale in America. Thank you. Contemporary drawing of the Krnka rifle which also illustrates the Krnka Cartridge's Berdan roots, esp it's Berdan design primer. The action of the rifle remains in crisp, fully functional condition with all of the various pieces of the mechanism appearing to function correctly. Has the the typical Birmingham makers proofs on barrel as well as tell tale lock makers marks under lock. Since Colt no longer had a manufacturing facility, he contracted with Eli Whitney of Whitneyville, Connecticut, to produce these guns. In this drawing the rifle is shown with a long rear sight leaf. Eligible for FREE shipping * Lockplate, Stripped. A diuym had been established as being equal to an English inch by Peter the Great, thus a liniya was 1/10, and six liniya was 6/10 or .60 caliber. The striker is struck by the rifles new hammer which is mated to the existing M1856 back-action lock mechanism. The original breech was removed from the barrel and a new bronze breech piece was added with the barrel screwed into it. Gan (alternate spelling: Hahn) designed an 8-Line fortress gun chambered for 20.3x95 mm of his own design utilizing the receiver and block of the Krnka system with a hammer mechanism of his own design. The basic "trapdoor" design lasted more than 25 years, but many gradual modifications resulted in steady improvement of the weapon. Even as to Russian produced rifles, the armories also bought locks and other parts from other sources which may account for different markings. Photo Credit:https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/23768575-russia-sylvestr-krnka-model-1857-single-shot-percussion-musket-15-2mm, Follow-On Rifle(s): M1868 Russian Berdan I. WebFrench Model 1857 Percussion Rifle-Musket Made at Liege. Available in .58 or .69 calibers and approved by the North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA). The rear sight leaves on Krnka rifles are held in place with very easily removed (and thus very easily lost) simple thumbscrews (see pics below). The most obvious identifiable factors of the Krnka Dragoon rifle are its sling slots, and its shorter, rounded, knobby hammer, which is immediately noticeably different from that of the two long rifles. Markevits Rutsnoe ognestrelnoe oruzie, armii konca XIV-XVIII vekov. It has a conventional 6-Line rifle brass nose cap but the stock is fixed only with two very thin barrel bands, the upper being only friction held and the lower being spring retained. WebA scarce Russian Model 1857/66 Krnka breechloading conversion rifle Serial no. Web1857 Harpers Ferry Model 1855 Percussion Rifle-Musket 24 1860 Henry Model 1860 Lever-Action Repeating Rifle 25 1860 J.F. This rifle, the M1860 Cossack 6-Line rifle, was never converted to the Krnka system. The metal of the gun has been lightly cleaned, weakening some of the markings, although they remain mostly legible throughout. The steel lower tang does not have the prominent finger spur of the rifles but rather only a very small bump. The new M1856 Rifle Musket was 53 in overall length with a 37 long, .60 caliber barrel that was rifled with four grooves with a relatively slow rate of twist of about 1:49, or of a turn in the length of the barrel. Unlike much of Europe (but similarly to the United States) Russia never adopted a repeating black powder cartridge rifle, transitioning directly from theM1870 Berdan IIto the well designed and long-lived M1891 smokeless powder Mosin-Nagant. They saw service during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and even saw limited service with reserve troops as late as World War I. In contrast, the Krnka cleaning rod head is specifically flat and not concave. These first two were a long, generally issued infantry and marksmans or sharpshooters rifle mounting three screw-retained barrel bands, and possibly a shorter, also three-band, Dragoon rifle. Extraction leverage is not great enough for ejection thus it is likely that the rifle would need to be tipped either up or over to clear the spent case. In 1854, the Russians started rifling and sighting existing stocks of M1845 muskets, but this was too little too late and few of the rifled arms reached the troops in the Crimea before the end of the war. The striker is struck by the rifles new hammer which is mated to the existing M1856 back-action lock mechanism. Two types of bullets were used: lead, to engage infantry in the open, and steel to defeat shelters. But technologically the rifle and its 4-Line 10.75mm cartridge is a substantial leap forward from the 6-Line 15mm Krnka. I dont know when you will find another complete, matching numbered example for sale again, and for such a reasonable price, so dont miss your chance to add this rare Russian rifle to your collection. I. , 1938. For questions or more information about our firearms or policies, call us at (877) 214-9327 or email info@collectorsfirearms.com. The Dragoon Krnka pictured here has a measured length of 1,225 mm (48.2 inches) with a 792 mm (31.2-inch) barrel. 23 per minute. About the Czech rifleman's rifle, which was re-armed by the tsarist army and which in 1878 definitively put an end to the Turkish threat to Europe. WebFive thousand Model 1865 conversions were produced at Springfield, utilizing the older rifle muskets and retaining their .58 caliber. Web1857 Smith Carbine Breech-Loaded Cavalry Carbine 22 1856 Springfield Model 1855 Muzzle-Loaded, Single-Shot Rifle-Musket 23 1858 Starr Model 1858 / Model 1863 Double-Action 6-Shot Percussion Revolver 24 1850 Stocking Model 1850 (Pepperbox) Six-Shot Compact Pistol 25 1855 Volcanic Arms Model 1855 Pistol-Carbine 26 1850 Washington Three years later, when Bulgaria entered the First World War, 12,800 stand of Krnkas remained in Bulgarian service and many were issued even then to rear echelon troops. This sub-assembly number appears on the bottom of the barrel and on the right side of all of the barrel bands as well. Katalog, Makovskaja L[ila] K[onstantinovna], Moskva: Voennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1990, 1994, Page started March 10, 1999 Most sadly, as the pictured rifle spent too much of its life in Afghanistan, the rear sight is now missing so no information is available on this rifles rear sight as issued. Some sources claim that the conversions were carried out at Ludwig Nobel St. Petersburg Machine-Building Plant from 1869 into the early 1870s while other sources state that the conversions to the M1867 series Krnkas were all carried out at the Tula armory from 1870 to about 1875. Like so many other early conversion rifles, the transformation was carried out by cutting off and threading the back of the barrel and screwing on a receiver, (in the case of the Russian model; the receiver being bronze) fitted with a steel breech block containing the firing pin. As of September 1, 1912, Bulgarian records indicate that there were 12,925 Krnkas still in inventory. Russian 6-Line muzzle-loading rifles were manufactured at all three Imperial weapons factories, Izhevsk, Tula and Sestroretsk as well as having been produced in Belgium and by the Birmingham Small Arms Company in England, as will be evidenced by each rifle's various markings. The cartridge weighed 204 g with a propellant weight of 23.4 g seating a bullet weighing 128 g, developing a muzzle velocity of 427 m/s. The rivalries among these countries reached its climax in the Crimean War (1853-1856) where Russia fought an alliance consisting of France, Great Britain Sardinia and Turkey. WebBuilding on a legacy of excellence forged by Eliphalet Remington in 1816, Remington rifles have defined and defended the American way of life for more than 200 years. This detent system is almost identical to the Tabatire but for its positioning. In 1857, 100 Colt rifles were purchased and sent to the U.S. troops for field service. The total weight of the gun, carriage, limber, and implements was 3,865 pounds. These had a range of 1,000 yards (910 m), more than 20 times the range Revised March 17, 1999 Given the context, this would be an acronym for "TULSKIY ORUZHEYNIY ZAVOD" which reads "Tula Arms Factory". 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