Original U.S. Evans 1877 New Model .44 Caliber Repeating Military "Musket" to Sporting Rifle Conversion U.S. Badges to accommodate a Yataghan blade

to accommodate a Yataghan blade saber bayonet

The interior shell is faintly maker marked and dated 1902

and upon promotion Gavin became the youngest general since the Civil War to command a US Army division

One end faintly stamped RAVISE in the wood the other end with a similar even fainter stamping plus what appears to be a BROAD ARROW marking

Original U.S. Evans 1877 New Model .44 Caliber Repeating Military "Musket" to Sporting Rifle Conversion U.S. Badges to accommodate a Yataghan bladeOriginal Item: One Only. Invented by Warren R. Evans of Thomaston, Maine production started in 1873 by "Evans Rifle Manufacturing Company of Mechanic Falls, Maine." Only 15,000 Evans firearms were manufactured in a six year period and then the company declared bankruptcy in 1879, a victim of the Post Civil War arms industry glut and stiff competition. The amazing thing about the Evans system was the THIRTY FOUR round tubular magazine housed in the