Trapdoor Springfield 2nd Ed Waite Ernst LIKE NEW HC/DJ Rifle Bible 📖🔫

by Bernard Ernst, Malden D. Waite

$75 · Offered by eBay · No longer available

📖 Ready to own the undisputed cornerstone reference on the rifle that won the West—the Trapdoor Springfield? This is Trapdoor Springfield: The United States Springfield Single-Shot Rifle – 1865-1893 by M.D. “Bud” Waite and B.D. Ernst—the very book every serious collector, reenactor, and U.S. martial arms historian still reaches for when they need the real story behind America’s first standard-issue breech-loading rifle. From the desperate post-Civil War Allin conversions to the legendary Model 1873 that armed Buffalo Soldiers, Custer’s troopers, and frontier outposts alike, Waite and Ernst deliver the complete technical and historical record in one authoritative volume. This is the updated Second Edition (copyright 1980, stated on the copyright page, published by The Gun Room Press, Highland Park, New Jersey—standard ISBN 9780917714207 used by collectors and dealers for both first and second editions). Spanning 223 heavily illustrated pages in a generous 11.25" × 8.75" format, it’s packed with crisp period photographs, precise line drawings of markings, breech details, bayonets, inspector stamps, and every model variation you’ll ever encounter. No other single book gives you this level of granular identification power—exactly what separates a nice rifle from a museum-grade prize. “Bud” Waite and Bernard D. Ernst were the gold-standard researchers of their era, spending years buried in original Springfield Armory ordnance records and surviving specimens so you don’t have to.

• Publisher: Gun Room Press
• Year: 1980
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780917714207
• Condition: Fine

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