{"id":26873,"date":"2025-04-24T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/the-last-single-shot-pistol-of-the-us-army-the-m1855-pistol-carbine-part-iii-history-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:41:05","slug":"the-last-single-shot-pistol-of-the-us-army-the-m1855-pistol-carbine-part-iii-history-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/the-last-single-shot-pistol-of-the-us-army-the-m1855-pistol-carbine-part-iii-history-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"The last single shot pistol of the US Army: the M1855 Pistol Carbine &#8211; Part III &#8211; history &#038; shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-KNTHw7IxE?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Awfully obsolete at the time of acceptance but still a very interesting cavalry arm from the American Civl War. The M 1855 pistol-carbine was adopted the same year as the M1855 rifle musket. In a time when wide variety of breech loaders were already accessible, including a few firing metallic cartridges. History and range time.<\/p>\n<p>Part I. Cartridges: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0O8f1eUQzUo?si=GWWg7q129igdYjmo<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/0O8f1eUQzUo?si=GWWg7q129igdYjmo<br<\/a> \/>Part II. The Maynard tap priming system: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lAsz5hfUdPE?si=8vrNOGMt9sljvalX<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/lAsz5hfUdPE?si=8vrNOGMt9sljvalX<br<\/a> \/>Part II. Shooting and history: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/r-KNTHw7IxE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/r-KNTHw7IxE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please support us on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball<\/a><br \/>Please visit us on History of Weapons and War: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#capandball #firearmshistory #civilwar #muzzleloading #militaryhistory #springfield #riflemusket #carbine #cavalry #cavalryrelics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awfully obsolete at the time of acceptance but still a very interesting cavalry arm from the American Civl War. The M 1855 pistol-carbine was adopted the same year as the M1855 rifle musket. In a time when wide variety of breech loaders were already accessible, including a few firing metallic cartridges. History and range time.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/the-last-single-shot-pistol-of-the-us-army-the-m1855-pistol-carbine-part-iii-history-shooting\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The last single shot pistol of the US Army: the M1855 Pistol Carbine &#8211; Part III &#8211; history &#038; shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}