Vickers Rear Cover, Stripped, WW2, SELECT Brown Bess opens and closes

opens and closes

The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt-action rifle and was among the best of its kind in 1866

and many deep south arsenals maintained inventories pin fire cartridges and even offered the pistols for sale to officers

It was superceded in 1898 with the introduction of the Gew 98 rifle also in an updated version of the same caliber and many 88s were updated and then marked with a small "S" on the receiver ring to indicate it could be used with the upgraded ammunition

Vickers Rear Cover, Stripped, WW2, SELECT Brown Bess opens and closesOriginal Item: The rear covers of early Vickers guns had hollow ramps, but the milled out sections were soon abandoned, leaving the ramps solid. Machining time was reduced by this move. The SELECT grade look unissued