A rifle with built-in coffee grinder?? - Well I don't know .. but I read about this in a new book that I've just started called 'LOCUSTS ON THE HORIZON' . A new "preppers" book that Greg Ellefritz recommends ... and that's good enough for me. Full Stop.
The e-book "Locusts" is great - so far - on my 'Kindle' and only cost around US$7.
Now I've found several versions of this rifle coffee grinder story - the following linked version strikes me as being as good as any: But it seems that there may be some twelve Civil War Sharps carbines around that may or may not be judged to be fakes - but the strongest point to be made is that this design was not actually built to grind coffee bean but to grind grain for various needs in the field.
https://vimeo.com/225146307https://vimeo.com/225146307v
And here's a bit of coffee-grinder-rifle video from the TV Show 'Pawn Stars':
https://vimeo.com/225146307
Very interesting for sure - and as I wasn't around during the American Civil war or in the 1920's when these carbines may have been faked I'm not in any position to comment or pass an opinion.
I have read that early Sharps rifles used various "percussion" systems, caps, stacked pellets, and the Maynard tape primers and indeed they progressed through paper cartridges to metallic cartridges - from the 1850's to the late 1880's.
It is what it is 😁
Marty K.
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