and French governments had dating back to just after the American War of Independence. due to the patent reciprocity agreement that the U.S. More to the point, the French patent should have been both recorded and honored in the U.S. Unmodified naval-issue M1858s are actually rather rare.
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Known as the Modele 1858 Transformee’ 1870N, these Lefaucheuxs can generally be spotted by their bobbed hammer spurs (still there, but shorter and more rounded), and the lack of a “pin slot” in each chamber of the cylinder, plus the trigger’s more forward position in the trigger guard. They also got a housing for their ejector rods, to prevent them from being bent the exposed rods on such revolvers were rather vulnerable to this. They were converted from pinfire to centerfire, and from single-action to double-action.
It was double-action, solid-frame, had a rod ejector and a loading gate, and was generally fully nickel-plated to protect it from salt air corrosion.Īt the same time, most Lefaucheux M1858s in service were refurbished and modernized. In 1870, the French Navy adopted a new centerfire revolver, the Modele 1870. The Lefaucheux Modele 1858, as issued to the French Navy, was a straight single-action. single-action Actually, quite a lot of pinfire revolvers were single-action. To be sure, you pretty much have to mike the bore and everything else.Ģ. For instance, a “12mm” round might indeed have a 12mm diameter cartridge case, but have a 9.5mm diameter bullet and be meant for a revolver with a 9.5mm diameter barrel. Caliber For some reason, a lot of pinfire cartridges are gauged by the case diameter, rather than the diameter of the bore or bullet.
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