1873 Springfield Trapdoor "Carbine" Question

[Nuch]

Hello,

I have an 1873 Springfield Trapdoor "Carbine" serial # 73742.

The date of manufacture, according to a few lists, is Oct - Dec 1876.

The list also shows that only 2 Carbines were manufactured that year.

Could this be correct, and might this Carbine be rare?

https://www.gun-data.com/springfield_trapdoors.html

 

[Jim K]

The figures for FY 1876 show one carbine made, probably because the Armory was working on officers' rifles and because they had made over 20,000 carbines in the previous two years so there were enough carbines. (The normal production was the rifle, but completed receivers were stockpiled and carbines assembled when there was an order for them, the same procedure followed later for the Krag.)

However, I am suspicious of that carbine because carbines didn't have swivels in the trigger guard. It might be a genuine carbine with a rifle trigger guard, but in my experience a large number of "carbines" around today are really cut down rifles, with or without carbine stocks. I would have to see better pictures to help on that, though.

Jim

 

[rcmodel]

+1 on counterfiet carbines.
Some of them very well done at that.

Look very carefully at the end of the forend next to the barrel and see if a wood filler has been added to fill a rifle ramrod hole?

If so, you have a cut-down rifle.

rc