The hammer has a half-cock and can also be cocked by hand. When the bolt handle is lifted up and the bolt pulled back it cocks a small external hammer immediately behind it and opens the chamber for loading. There is a short bolt handle at the back of the bolt and two locking lugs just in front of the handle. (The company claimed that the rifle could be made in any centerfire caliber.) The turn-bolt mechanism is similar to the Prussian Dreyse rifle, French Chassepot rifle, the Van Choate (also manufactured by the Brown Manufacturing Co.), and the Ward Burton. 58 caliber Berdan-primer centerfire cartridge.
It is a single shot, bolt action, breech loading rifle that fired a. The Brown-Merrill Rifle Almost all Brown-Merrills seen today are converted from British Pattern 1853s, a single shot, muzzle loading percussion weapon. In 1873 a depression and low sales forced the Brown Manufacturing Company into bankruptcy and the machinery was sold to former Colt employee John Marlin, who founded the Marlin Firearms Company, and continued to produce Ballards. It appears that Brown also manufactured rifles for others, specifically the Van Choate rifle, developed by Sylvanus F. The firm manufactured and tried to market the Brown-Merrill rifle but it faced stiff competition in a market that was flooded with surplus conversions and newly-built arms. The firm continued to manufacture Ballard sporting and target rifles and Southerner derringers. John Hamilton Brown of Maine purchased the company in 1869, incorporated it in New York, and changed the name to the Brown Manufacturing Company. Merrimack continued to produce Ballard rifles as well as Southern Derringers. Merwin and Bray moved the factory to Newburyport, provided new machinery and changed the firms name to the Merrimack Arms and Manufacturing Company. Bray of Merwin and Bray of New York (the sales agents for Ballards) purchased it in 1866. Ball and Company until Joseph Merwin and Edward P. In 1865 Williams retired from Ball and Williams and the firm struggled on as R. The firm started in 1861 as Ball and Williams in Worchester, Massachusetts, which produced Ballard rifles and carbines. The Brown Manufacturing Company of Newburyport, Massachusetts produced the Brown-Merrill rifle from 1869 to 1873. The Brown Manufacturing Company of Newburyport, Mass. 4 British Pattern 1853 Rifle-Musket Smithsonian Photo Public Domain Not only were there more than enough surplus P53s available for conversion to breech loading metallic cartridge guns, but the P53s. 577 caliber, was the predominant Confederate infantry longarm, and the second most numerous Union infantry weapon after the Springfield Models 18 rifle-muskets. An estimated 900,000 P53s were imported by both the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Brown-Merrill, bolt action rifle (commonly called the Brown) most often seen today was converted from British Pattern 1853 (P53) Enfield percussion rifle-muskets. One such company was the Brown Manufacturing Company of Newburyport, MA. Photograph courtesy of Rock Island Auction Company. 2 Brown-Merrill rifle converted from British Pattern 1853. Photograph courtesy of Rock Island Auction Company.įig. 1 Brown-Merrill rifle converted from British Pattern 1853. Many inventors and companies devised ways to convert muzzle loading firearms into cartridge breechloaders and then sell them for a profit.įig. government sold many of the obsolete arms that were in storage to arms dealers. One way was to convert its muzzle loading percussion rifle-muskets to breech loading rifles that used metallic cartridges. Government was practically bankrupt and was looking for ways to inexpensively modernize its ordnance. The vast majority were muzzle loading rifle-muskets that were now obsolete because breech loading guns and repeating firearms that used self-contained metallic cartridges were the future. Although most were arms used by the Union army, there were also many thousands of captured and surrendered Confederate arms. Government had an incredible number of surplus arms in its inventory. Potomac Arms Collectors Association When the Civil War ended the U.S.
Browning serial numbers a bolt serial number#
This would be a A-Bolt II Rifle, manufactured in 1998 with the serial number 01001.Marc Gorelick Virginia Gun Collectors Association, In 1998 Browning redid the standardization of its serial number identifications to work with its new data base program, Oracle. This would be an A-Bolt II Gold Medallion rifle, manufactured in 1985 with the serial number 01001. Along with the BOSS, Browning made changes to the A-Bolt and introduced the A-Bolt II. In 1994 Browning introduced the BOSS (Ballistic Optimizing Shooting System). This would be an A-Bolt Gold Medallion rifle,manufactured in 1985 with the serial number 01001. In 1976, Browning re-standardized its serial number identification.
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