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| | My Trapdoor Carbine "Shootin' Iron" |
 | | The "Trapdoor" Carbine shown above was assembled by the author during the early to mid 1970's, from the chopped remains of an "after-market" trapdoor rifle generically known as a "Bannerman Special". |
 | | Such firearms were assembled by Francis Bannerman and Sons, and other, less well-known vendors, from earlier-revision trapdoor parts that the U.S. Arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts, had sold as "scrap metal"; scrap metal is generally melted down for recycling. |
 | | A complete manual on how to load cartridges for original trapdoor rifles and carbines (this applies to all old trapdoors, arsenal or vendor made, as long as they have the original, deep-groove government barrels) is available from Wolf's Western Traders. |
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