{"id":30855,"date":"2026-11-04T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/elite-civil-war-carbines-of-a-ny-state-trooper\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:00:27","slug":"elite-civil-war-carbines-of-a-ny-state-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/elite-civil-war-carbines-of-a-ny-state-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Civil War Carbines of a NY State Trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d36WxtHHDt8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Andrew Lustyik served in Army intelligence during the Korean War era, then became a New York State Trooper. For decades, he was also one of Gun Report&#8217;s most respected writers. All the while, he was building the finest collection of Civil War carbines we&#8217;ve ever seen. Many of these breechloaders appeared in his articles, and few collectors have seen them in person since.<\/p>\n<p>These are rare experimental breechloaders, several tested by the U.S. Army and Navy as inventors competed for military contracts. The makers include Howe, Brand, Soule, Symmes, and Gray. There&#8217;s also a Merrill, Latrobe &#038; Thomas Jenks &#8220;mule ear&#8221; that the Navy tested in 1858. Several are the only examples of their kind we&#8217;ve ever handled.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2013 The Andrew Lustyik Collection <br \/>01:17 \u2013 Who Was Andrew Lustyik? <br \/>02:58 \u2013 Soule Prototype Carbine <br \/>03:42 \u2013 Smithsonian Joslyn Model 1862 <br \/>04:18 \u2013 Howe 1865 Trials Prototype <br \/>04:56 \u2013 Brand Prototype Carbine <br \/>05:31 \u2013 Symmes Prototype Carbine <br \/>06:15 \u2013 First Model Burnside <br \/>06:54 \u2013 Merrill, Latrobe &#038; Thomas Jenks Mule Ear <br \/>07:18 \u2013 Joshua Gray 1866 Prototype <\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#CivilWar #Rifles #Carbines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Lustyik served in Army intelligence during the Korean War era, then became a New York State Trooper. For decades, he was also one of Gun Report&#8217;s most respected writers. All the while, he was building the finest collection of Civil War carbines we&#8217;ve ever seen. Many of these breechloaders appeared in his articles, and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/elite-civil-war-carbines-of-a-ny-state-trooper\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elite Civil War Carbines of a NY State Trooper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":30856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}