Photo - Hall's Breechloaders of Harpers Ferry: NRA National Firearms Museum Featured Guns
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Uploaded by NFMCurator on Nov 10, 2009
PHOTO & TEXT ONLY - http://www.nramuseum.com Maine inventor John H. Hall was to receive credit for two notable achievements in firearm history. But despite being the creator of America's first military breechloading rifles, and creator of the first American firearm made with totally interchangeable parts, it took Hall four years to complete the first 22 handmade flintlock breechloaders from his initial government contract of 1,000 ordered in 1819.
Moving operations south from Portland, Maine, to Harpers Ferry, VA., Hall occupied a former sawmill along the Shenandoah River and devoted several years to the construction of workshops and precision machinery to fully meet his goal of interchangeable parts. Halls flintlock falling block rifles were reliable arms that were used in the Mexican War, and later his percussion rifle and carbine models were extensively used in the American Civil War. The manufacturing technology developed at the innovative Halls Rifle Works was the groundwork for future American military arms production, both at Harpers Ferry Armory and at Springfield Armory.
In the National Firearms Museum collection, several Hall's rifles and carbines are currently on exhibit. Case 31 displays one of the museums prizes -- a nearly mint condition flintlock Hall rifle with original bayonet. Other examples are shown in the Mexican War exhibit, including a separated carbine/rifle breechblock that illustrates how the Hall design could provide an impromptu single-shot "pistol" if needed.
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Civil War cavalry general J.E.B. Stuart owned a Hall's rifle, I wonder if the ball and powder were just pushed down with your finger or by a ramrode.
AUG351 1 month ago
I really want one of those.
DoughboyJonesmk2 4 months ago
Loading directly into the breech? Preposterous!
stevensonbak 1 year ago
@camerl2009 Historical? Sure, the first general issue breechloader. There are at least 5 companies making sharps breech loaders.
DonMeaker 1 year ago
@DonMeaker hay maybe we can ask them to start making them
camerl2009 1 year ago
trackofthewolf
123nicefellow123 2 years ago
I like the Hall rifle, and would be interested in a replica of one. Pedersoli? Anyone? Buhler?
DonMeaker 2 years ago