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Experimental .50-70 Cartridge with Farley’s Sectional Bullet

Item #: Z6293

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Z6293 Experimental .50-70 Cartridge with Farley’s Sectional Bullet

Description: Very scarce cartridge tested in 1869. This cartridge is internally primed using the Benet system. The cartridge employs a sectional bullet created by Captain Farley. The bullet has a dowel on the base that holds a perforated disc of beeswax. When fired, the beeswax disc was supposed to squeeze out the lubricant. A decent example with an oxidized bullet. The nose is frozen in place and does not detach from the base section. Only a portion of the beeswax disc remains.

Headstamp: None

Measures: OAL 2.365” CL 1.769” RD .665” HD .564” CM .538”

Reference: Small Arms Ammunition at the International Exposition Philadelphia, 1876 by Berkeley R. Lewis. Pg. 52 Plate 14 No. 271

Reference: Pitman Notes Vol. 5 Pg. 51 No. 41/14

Reference: Ordnance Memoranda No. 8 1870

Price: $695.00 UPS Shipping Required

Shipping Weight: 0.25 lb

Your Price$695.00 USD

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