WTB: Triplett & Scott Carbine

[762x51]

Looking for a reasonably priced Triplett & Scott carbine with a decent bore.

Orin

[John Holland]

I wouldn't rule out the Triplett & Scott Rifle, a longer sight radius equals less human error!

[762x51]

Hi John,

I just like the looks of a carbine but maybe I'll end up with a rifle.
I've found a rifle but it needs a buttstock and S&S is sold out of them.
Any idea as to who made those reproduction stocks?

Orin

[R Filbert]

That but is going to be a bear to make as for the tube mag that runs through it. I can carve the stock but cant be sure on the hole.

[Bruce Cobb 1723V]

In the day they called both the long and short barrels "carbines" despite their length

[Jim Wimbish, 10395]

Virtually all of the butt stocks for the Tripletts are cracked due to the magazine tube. It appears that they thinned out the wood a little too much. The Tripletts were the first gun made to use the 50 rimfire cartridge which wasn't even available until March, 1865. The 30 inch barrel carbines are more common than the 22 inch carbines. The gun never saw wervice in the War. The hairline stock cracks are on the left side near where the stock meets the receiver. Not visible in this picture.

[Bruce Cobb 1723V]

This is one of the most advanced guns used in the Civil War. They were purchased and issued in the State of Kentucky and used mostly around the railroads as I hear. I have had more than my share of them. Consider milling half the tube hole in 2 halfs. Glue in a spencer butt stock tube. Then glue the other half together. Then contour it. The seam will be barely visible if you use the same piece of wood cut in half. They split because they got old and dried out, not because they were too tight. I think they used the tube guts from the Spencer.

[Jim Wimbish, 10395]

An earlier carbine that used the pivoting breech system seen in the Triplett and Scott was the Greene carbine from 1856. Carbines were sold to the US Government and to the British Government in 1858. In addition to the pivoting breech, the gun also incorporated the Maynard priming system using a roll of caps. To operate the gun, you pulled the front trigger which allowed the barrel to be turned out of the locked position and swung to the right. A paper cartridge was inserted into the barrel and a pointed tube, which was the spark channel, was supposed to penetrate the base of the cartridge and provide ignition to the powder. This particular gun went to the UK and probably sat there for nearly 100 years before it found its way back to the US in really nice condition.

[ecouncil]

Was there a unique type of 56-50 rimfire used by the Triplett & Scott carbines. I've got a fairly large collection of rimfire circa 1865 56-50s and none will chamber into the my Triplett as the rim/head thickness/diameter on all ~30 56-50 cartridges are slightly too large.