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The Springfield Model 1881 Trapdoor Shotgun in the News

March 23, 2024

This survey of period newspaper articles reflects the changing role of the Springfield Model 1881 trapdoor shotgun, from a military arm, through surplus use, and evolving into a collector’s item. From providing utilitarian value as a hunting tool to providing intrinsic value as a collector’s item.

Springfield Armory Made a Trapdoor Shotgun?!?

November 30, 2022

Yep, Springfield Armory produced a limited number of shotguns using the breech-loading action developed by Erskine Allin.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

Theodore Roosevelt

[the sporting-goods dealer] has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, and marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them.

Aldo Leopold

A fine marksman with a second-rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

Jeff Cooper

Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.

John Sedgwick

The one weapon every man should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

Ida B. Wells

The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power.

Theodore Roosevelt

The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the essence of good citizenship. It is too easy to say that a good shot is automatically a good man, but it would be equally incorrect to ignore the connection.

Jeff Cooper

The human quest to ‘hit the mark’ is an endless challenge for perfection in aiming and controlling a gun while overcoming the fear of missing the mark.

Gary Anderson

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed in the knowledge and use of firearms may find that information and skill of great importance.

Annie Oakley

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The Springfield Model 1881 Trapdoor Shotgun in the News

Springfield Armory Made a Trapdoor Shotgun?!?

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