Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Eight Groove Barrel - Excellent Bore Japanese Army was used exclusively on the

was used exclusively on the German MG 08 water-cooled Maxim Machine Gun

with catastrophic consequences)

Serial number 137925A denotes year of manufacture as 1882

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Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Eight Groove Barrel - Excellent Bore Japanese Army was used exclusively on theOriginal Item: Jacob Snider, an American from New York, developed this breech loading system for the P 1853 Enfield, the most prolific imported Percussion rifle in use by both the North and South during the U. S. Civil War. When the British Board of Ordnance appointed a Select Committee in 1864 the Snider system was swiftly adopted with the first breech loaders being issued in 1865 to British forces. Improved in 1867 by the use of Colonel Boxer's