Original U.S. Evans 1877 New Model .44 Caliber Repeating Military "Musket" to Sporting Rifle Conversion U.S. Badges The interior shell is faintly

The interior shell is faintly maker marked and dated 1902

because it took two years to retool for production

to accommodate a Yataghan blade saber bayonet

Napoleonic-style of infantry tactics obsolete

Troubridge dated 1858 from "Horseguards"

Original U.S. Evans 1877 New Model .44 Caliber Repeating Military "Musket" to Sporting Rifle Conversion U.S. Badges The interior shell is faintlyOriginal Item: One Only. Invented by Warren R. Evans of Thomaston, Maine production started in 1873 by "Evans Rifle Manufacturing Company of Mechanic Falls, Maine." Only 15,000 Evans firearms were manufactured in a six year period and then the company declared bankruptcy in 1879, a victim of the Post Civil War arms industry glut and stiff competition. The amazing thing about the Evans system was the THIRTY FOUR round tubular magazine housed in the