Remington's and Spencer

[ehull]

Todd-
The "Spencer's & Remington cartridges / rim primed metallic cal .50" are probably listed because they are interchangeable between those carbines. However, by this late date I doubt that any Remington "split breech" carbines were still in use, and the Army bought no Remington Rider rimfire carbines. The Remington carbines listed in the report are the later Springfield-Remington Model 1870 carbine, which used a .50 centerfire carbine cartridge.

[CALIBRE44]

I believe the .50 cal you are referring to are 50-70 cf cartridges that were used in the Springfield Rifle and Carbine..Later model Springfield used 45-70's..Jim

[jon_norstog]

The spent cartridges can't talk. To bad - some of them may have been fired from Comanche guns. The west was awash in guns after the Civil War, including Spencers, and the New Mexico Comancheros gladly sold arms and ammo to the Comanche. All they could get.

As for the Army's Remingtons, they most likely shared the 50-70 caliber with the trapdoors in use at the time.

jn