As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In tracing the overthrow of America, something has been a nagging question in the recesses of my thoughts as to how in this world that the United States Military coming out of the Civil War, adopted one of thee most ridiculous firearms ever created in the Springfield Trapdoor Rifle, or the weapon which assisted in the mass assassination of General George Armstrong Custer and his command at the Little Big Horn.
The history of this is the insiders which overthrew America and became the conduits of the Rothschild cartel of Europe.
The basis of this is the hiring of a firearms genius of sorts in Massachusetts. For the oddity of the modern era, at one time Springfield Massachusetts was the seat of firearms making for profit, just like slaughtering whales for oil was another of the profit centers for this dope trade shipping magnet center.
The genius was Erskine S. Allin, a person who rose to become superintendent of Springfield Armory, or the United States Government's firearms manufacturing center.
Into this came the Model 1861 Springfield which was a muzzle loading rifle for the Civil War. There were at the conclusion of the Civil War around 1 million of these rifles in the national arsenal. The period was a "day the universe changed" era, as it was the era from muzzle loading firearms and cannons to the production of cartridges and shells.
It was the advent of the Henry which was the lever action rifle, which became the proprietary ownership of Winchester manufacturing, in the cowboy gun which won the west.
Remington's concern , was involved in this, in producing a split breech or rear loading firearm which saw service at Gettysburg as did the Henry rifles in select Union companies.
With this existing arsenal of Springfields, and better designs, Erskine Allin put forward a patent design for basically sawing a breech into the rear of the Springfields, which flipped open as a block for the cartridge, and this became the progenitor of the Springfield trapdoor.
The Civil War ended in 1865 AD in the year of our Lord, and in this period, the move for establishing a new military breech loading, single shot, cartridge rifle came into vogue. The Model 1865 Springfield was revamped by Allin who ruled Springfield Arsenal and became under patent, the Model 1873.
One must understand the real history in this, as there was an insider panel of 50 Military Officers, headed by General Alfred Terry, and their pet in this was Erskine Allin. It went so far that after the Civil War, head of the Army, General William Tecumseh Sherman, had a brainstorm and appropriated a pistol version of the Springfield, which was like a hand cannon. It was a disaster from recoil and it's accuracy was deplorable, before it was rejected.
The reality is though, this was the military insider group, in a General could order a firearm, and Erskine Allin would produce it at the Government expense.
What was and is deplorable about the 1873 testing is that thee best rifles in the world were on display from the Sharps in being thee most advanced Buffalo Rifle in the world in long distance shooting and firepower, along with the equally fabulous Remington Rolling Block.
The testing was accomplished at Springfield, where Erskine Allin was ruling, and where his own design the Springfield 99 had been developed and was manufactured. Oddly in Allin overseeing all of this, no one asked if the testing was legitimate, as for some reason, the Springfield out shot all the other rifles combined in speed, accuracy and in every category.
This is phenomenal really as the Springfield was prone to jamming as at the Little Big Horn in 3 percent of the cartridges fired shows pry marks in forensic observations after the battle. Yet at Allin's testing, those rifles and cartridges were without a glitch.
The Sharps is a much stouter rifle with heavy loads, the Winchester High Wall is fast and the Remington Rolling Block is much easier to deal with, all beating the Springfield, by the reality of the American and world public chose these variations over the Springfield, but the US Military when the smoke cleared, purchased the Erskine Allin design.
Erskine Allin ruled Springfield even after his death. In one of the most ridiculous of events in history, General Nelson Appleton Miles attempted to advance the Lee magazine design, by the American inventor. Miles was stymied at every turn, and the oddest part of this is, the Lee design would appear in the British Empire as the Lee Enfield which armed the Tommies through two world wars.
Upon the advent of the Spanish American War, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, along with General Miles witnessed the horrid nature again of the 1873 Springfield against the Spanish Mauser in 7 x 57. It was not but a few years later that President Theodore Roosevelt would implement a new Springfield for the military, having a magazine, a bolt action and named the Springfield Model 1906 in 30 Caliber, known to the world as the 30.06.
Yes 30 years after the insiders sent the 1873 to the American Soldiers to die under, the record was reset in a design which was being promoted by General Miles in the Lee bolt action magazine rifle.
All of this could be just stupidity, if it were not for something which was filling the Congressional annals. After Erskine Allin died, a cadre of Congressman kept introducing bills in both houses to pay reparations to the family of Erskine Allin, and named a firearms company which Allin was owner of.
Allin by evidence even had his own distinctive armory mark in ESA hammered into Springfields, made in production runs on the Government dole.
This is brought up, because could you imagine the hell which would break loose if for example Sec. of State John Kerry was operating his own M 16 company making weapons for the US military in profiting off of those sales, and that is what Erskine Allin was doing. The depths of this was so grande, that Congressman were still trying to extort money from the US Treasury for Allin after he died, and they did pay the widow and daughter 25,000 dollars.
What must be examined in this, is Remington Arms Company almost went bankrupt during this period, as it has contracts for it's Rolling Block with the Civil War raging, and after the war, the Government cancelled all the contracts. Remington was in dire straits, but did not have any one in Congress trying to extort money from the US Treasury for their sob story, Instead Remington went onto the world stage, and sold their fine Rolling Block to Spain, South America and Sweden as their design was thee absolute best in testing around the globe.
The Christian Sharps company though soon went bankrupt, and no one in Congress offered to gain US Treasury funds for them.
This is the story of insiders and how this group waylaid the US Government. How it got Soldiers massacred at the Little Big Horn and how it was the detriment of the US Military in the Spanish American War.
Erskine Allin had a cheap idea to convert obsolete muzzle loaders to modern breech design, but it was a weak action and it had numerous faults. It is by evidence now a reality that the Springfield tests were rigged by Erskine Allin, and the military junta which oversaw this choice and production was guilty of all of this.
General Alfred Terry as an insider oversaw the mass assassination of General Custer's command, and in that took away the best Cavalry officer and corp the world had in General Custer.
The US Military was absolutely stymied and set back from advancement by 30 years, much to it's detriment. The US Navy attempted to break out from this hostage situation and did at times, but the rest of the military was haunted by the junta and the ghost of Erskine Allin.
This is one of the nastiest and most criminal conspiracies in history, and for typical strange reality, Erskine Allin is still written of in flattering propaganda as this same group of propaganda press, spends great sums in slandering George Custer to this day.
Once again this is a Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter, which no one else has investigated nor put before the public in setting the record straight.
It honestly baffles the mind when Teddy Roosevelt was firing his Medicine Gun, a Winchester repeater in 45 90 and Nelson Miles was promoting the Remington Lee bolt action rifle in military configuration, that instead the US Soldier was encumbered by this Trapdoor Springfield, which was the worst firearm design in history.
These are the facts. This is the one and only Lame Cherry.
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"Erskine S. Allin was Master Armorer at Springfield Armory from 1853 until his death in 1879. It would be hard to imagine a more exciting and innovative time in the history of arms making. When Allin started his career at the National Armory at Springfield Massachusetts the flintlock represented the state of the art of small arms ignition...It was replaced by percussion cap and, later cartridge-based systems in the early-to-mid 19th century, all within the working life of Erskine s. Allin.
United States Statutes at Large
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United States - 1903 - Law
United States,
war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen vol. i2, p. 276 ...
of Holvoke, Massachusetts, respectively widow and daughter of the late Erskine S. Allin, ... United States Regulation Firearms Company on ttie eighteenth day of*
Compound Warfare: That Fatal Knot - Page 126 - Google Books Result
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In 1865, Erskine S. Allin,
working at the Springfield Armory, patented a design to convert the
muzzle-loaded 1861 Springfield to accept a center-fire, metallic ...*
United States Statutes at Large
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United States - 1903 - Law
Ladd, of Holvoke, Massachusetts, respectively widow and daughter of the late Erskine S. Allin, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid in equal parts, said Allin*
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1903 - Session laws
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The Springfield Model 1865, also named the First Allin (for its designer Erskine S. Allin) was a breechloading rifle, based heavily on the earlier Springfield Model 1863. The Model 1865 was also named a "Trapdoor Springfield" due to the breechblock mechanism it employed.
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Design Details
The Springfield Model 1865 was heavily based on the Model 1863 rifled musket, also produced by Springfield. Therefore the same stock and barrel were used on both firearms (although the barrel was shortened). Furthermore the Model 1865's breechloading mechanism was avaliable as a conversion for the Model 1863, which meant that the Model 1865 had a caliber of .58
Production began in 1865 in the last year of the Civil War.
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Model 1865
www.trapdoorcollector.com/m65.html
One of the muskets to be altered on Allin's plan, like the 5000 ordered; and one ... the breechloader submitted by Erskine S. Allin, Master Armorer at Springfield, ...*
Springfield Model 1873 - Wikiwand
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Designer, Erskine S. Allin.
Designed, 1873. Manufacturer, Springfield Armory. Number built, approx.
700,000. Variants. Cavalry Carbine with 22 in (560 mm) ...*
The Remington Rolling Block rifle is one of the most successful single shot weapons ever developed. It is a strong and simple action, very reliable, and not prone to be jammed by dirt or rough usage. It was based in part on the split breech action produced by Remington during the United States Civil War. That design was re-engineered by Joseph Rider during 1865, and the first firearm based on it, the Model 1865 Remington Pistol, was offered for sale to the United States Army and Navy in 1866. While the Army turned the design down, the Navy committed to purchase 5000 pistols.
Remington first appeared at the battle of Gettysburg.
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Gun Digest Book of Classic American Combat Rifles
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Terry Wieland - 2011 - Antiques & Collectibles
In 1864–65 chief engineer Joseph Rider of the E. Remington and Sons Arms Co. was ... “split breech” action purchased by the government at the end of the Civil War. The split-breech action was based upon the earlier 1864 patent, having its ...*
REMINGTON SPLIT-BREECH CIVIL WAR CARBINE
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This is a very good example of the early small frame Remington Split Breech ... A fairly scarce Civil War era Breech loading carbine, only 5000 were ... Action works nicely with a very good bore...strong rifling, still bright with some scattered pits.*
The Model 1866 corrected problems encountered with the prototypical Model 1865, in particular a simplified and improved extractor and a superior .50 caliber centerfire cartridge (the Model 1865 used a .58 caliber rimfire cartridge with mediocre ballistics), among many other less significant changes. It employed a robust version of the "trapdoor" breechblock design originated by Erskine S. Allin, Master Armorer of the Springfield Armory.
Original m1842 Springfields were inspected and cartouched by Erskine S. Allin. We can recreate his distinctive "ESA"*
In 1872–1873 a military board, headed by Brigadier-General Alfred H. Terry, conducted an examination and trial of 99 rifles from several domestic and foreign manufacturers including those from Springfield, Sharps, Peabody, Whitney, Spencer, Remington, and Winchester pursuant to the selection of a breech-loading system for rifles and carbines for the U.S. Military. The trials included tests for: accuracy, dependability, rate-of-fire, and ability to withstand adverse conditions. Both single shot and magazine equipped systems were considered but, at the time, the single shot was deemed to be more reliable. Firing tests were held at the Springfield Armory and Governor's Island where the average rate of fire for the Springfield was 8 rounds per minute for new recruits and 15 rounds per minute for experienced soldiers. The board recommended "No. 99 Springfield" which became the Model 1873
The Civil War was in its final months, ending in April-May 1865. And, about one million U.S. Springfield rifles models 1861 and 1863 (type I & II) remained on-hand following the war's conclusion. Scrapping or selling off these weapons was not deemed cost effective. That is, in the eyes of the Chief of Ordnance, Brigadier General Alexander B. Dyer (September 1864 - May 1874). Therefore, the board opted to update these legacy rifles. Master Armorer of the Springfield Armory, Erskine S. Allin, is generally credited with the idea behind this conversion. It entailed cutting into the breech and adapting a hinged breechblock mechanism, hence its nickname 'trapdoor rifle.' A converted rifle could now be loaded and fired using self-primed metallic cartridges.
When it came to determining the type of service rifle to be adopted for army-wide use, the tiny Ordnance Department, with its fifty or so officers held sway. Always operating on truncated budgets, they tended to be conservative when it came to service rifle adoption.
In 1869, General Sherman employed "As the old warlord was officially made Commanding General of the United States Army on March 8, 1869, pistolsmith Erskine S. Allin at Springfield went chop chop on the prototype of Sherman's requested hog leg. Since it was to fire a rifle round, the engineers selected the 50-45-350 Cadet cartridge. This buffalo round familiar to our members here on the forum and gets its name from the fact that it fired a 350-grain .50-45 caliber lead round over 70 grains of black powder crammed into a brass case. To stabilize this gargantuan round for use in a handgun, a 9-inch barrel was needed. "
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Senate Bill: S 1168 For the Relief of the heirs of Erskine S. ALlin and the United States Regulations Firearms Company, respectively.
Received from the Senate 30 - Laid before House and referred to Committee on Claims 21.
S 1878 For the relief of the heirs of Erskine S. Allin and the United States Regulation Arms Company respectively, Introduced by Mr. Piatt of Connecticut and referred to committee on Patents 890.
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