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Was Russian Rifle a Confederate The action differs from other guns. Simulta-<br />
Invention? - neously with the German-built Mauser,<br />
The hitherto unknown "Berdan 11" Russian Model 1871 rifle, the turn-bolt Russian Ber-<br />
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rifles now being sold are one of the sweetest- dan I1 was designed. By whom?<br />
shooting black powder single shots ever made. Probably not by Berdan. Resemblance be-<br />
The low cost (Winfield Arms in California tween the Colt and Leeds-Russian models is<br />
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cause few gun fans really know what these But the Berdan I1 does have an unexplained<br />
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1880 test rifle. Burton is not known to have<br />
Berdan 11's are unlike the flip-up breech had contact with the arms industry after<br />
Berdan 1's made by Colt for Russians in his return to America in 1873 where he lived<br />
1869. Designed by Civil War sharpshooter as a fanner. But he may have designed the<br />
Colonel Hiram Berdan, the Colt's used the Berdan I1 as an obvious improvement on the<br />
highly accurate bottleneck .42 cartridge, also obsolete Colt Berdan I rifles. There is a<br />
used in the Berdan 11. In 1871 the Berdan 11's hint of "biting off more than they could<br />
went into production in England for the chew" in the Leeds contract story.<br />
Czar. In charge of manufacture was Virginian The city of Leeds in Yorkshiie, England,<br />
James H. Burton, former master armorer of was and is a textile making center. During<br />
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produced in "The Brass Frame Colt & Whit- for the Confederacy in England, undoubtedly<br />
ney," by William Albaugh) said: "(Id 1871 had close contact with textile makers in<br />
(Colonel Burton) again went to England at Leeds. Burton must have known the textile<br />
the instance of a private firm in Leeds to makers because he had to deal with them to<br />
take direction of a contract entered into with sell Confederate cotton. When the Russian<br />
the Russian Government for the supply of contract came to England, some enterprising<br />
the entire plant of machinery for a small arms Leeds merchant may have bid on the job of<br />
factory on a large scale at Tula, in Central making the machinery, then called on his<br />
Russia, for the manufacture of the Berdan friend Burton to help in the extremity. If the<br />
rifle."<br />
Russians came to England with samples of the<br />
Berdan I1 rifles are known with Binning- Colt-Berdan rifle, Burton may logically have<br />
ham proof marks. (See Roger Marsh, Weap- decided to improve the gun as well as make<br />
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guns have unusually shaped cocking pieces. later researcher a clue of where to look in<br />
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