![]() ![]() What became the Mk IV and final Mk of Martini in British service started life as the reduced bore sized. The Martini-Henry Mks II and III had no variations on either of those Mks while in service. The Martini-Henry Mk III was approved in 1879. The Martini-Henry Mk II was approved in 1877 and produced till 1880. 577/.450 by the British Army.īetween 18 the Mk I evolved through three patterns. 577/.450 designation for this cartridge is its commercial trade designation and was never referred to as a. The cartridge chosen was the bottlenecked. Martini's action was selected from a field of entries and this action was mated to the polygonal barrel designed by Alexander Henry, a Scottish gunsmith famous for producing quality target rifle barrels. 577 Pattern 1853 Enfield rifles were fitted with a Snider breech.Ī competition was instigated by the British War Office in 1866 to find a replacement rifle. It was a stop-gap measure, whereby muzzle-loading. Martini's action was fully enclosed and had levered extraction, which was a great improvement over the original Peabody design.ĭuring this period the Snider/Enfield conversion was introduced into British service in 1866. ![]() Martini eliminated the external hammer and replaced it with an internal firing pin operated by a coil main spring. The Swiss were not satisfied with the Peabody and tasked a Swiss engineer, Frederich von Martini, with improving the original design. A rear hinged dropping block system with an external hammer, the lever used to operate the Peabody rifles action was also its trigger guard.Īfter the US Civil War ended in 1865, Peabody did achieve some success overseas with sales to Canada (3,000 rifles), France (3,900 rifles) and to the Swiss who purchased 15,000 rifles. His design was, surprisingly, not adopted by the US forces during the Civil War (1861-1865). The American Peabody rifle was patented in that year by Henry O. ![]() The story of the Martini action firearm began in 1862. ![]()
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