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45-70 (about $1,100), and compared it in handling to an original full-length version.
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Gun Tests Magazine took a look at the Pedersoli Officers Model 1873 Trapdoor. Buffalo Bores lever ammunition and other brands specifically intended for use in modern single-shot rifles and other weapons with strong breech designs have no place in Trapdoors, neither old nor new ones.
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The Trapdoor gets its name from its top-opening, hinged breech, which is no paragon of strength but adequate for the hottest black-powder loads of its heyday, and for many normal 45-70 loads of today, or at least reproductions are. armed forces from 1873 until it was supplanted by the Krag around 1892. The Trapdoor Springfield has a golden history, having been used by the U.S.
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