Winchester's cartridge conversion in reverse

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JT-AR-MG42

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I was perusing a few old Gun Digest 's and re-discovered this article that I am sharing in part.
Interesting that Oliver Winchester's first cartridge patent was for a cartridge conversion, only in reverse.

This article is copied (in part) from the 1952 Gun Digest published by the Gun Digest Company - Chicago 6.
Article is on pages 172 - 177 and was written by Paul S. Foster who was considered THE cartridge authority of his day.

If this constitutes copyright infringement, please remove.

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Blow up of the same photo for clarity. The third paragraph above contains the info of this long forgotten conversion.

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Here is the photo of the case along with a blow up of it.
The photo is clear, it is the actual photo in the article that is grainy.

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In the late 1860s I could see where not everyone could afford the factory ammo, and if one was out on the frontier, this would have been a way to save a limited supply of cartridges and allow you to hunt while saving them.

JT
 
Although usually never depicted probably why so many kept their muzzleloader as well as having a cartridge gun.
 
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