Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 [SEP] designer
Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878
The Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 is a single-shot hammerless falling-block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. It closely resembles older Sharps Rifles but has a firing mechanism that uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle. This hammerless dropping-block breech-loader was based on a patent granted to Hugo Borchardt in 1877. It was the last of the Sharps single-shot rifles, and the Borchardt
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- Knut Borchardt (born 1929), German researcher
- Ludwig Borchardt (1863-1938), German Egyptologist
- Paul Borchardt (1886-1953), German archaeologist
- Siegfried Borchardt (born 1953), German neo-Nazi politician
- Susan King Borchardt (born 1981), American basketball player
See also.
- 7.65×25mm Borchardt,
- Borchardt C-93 (1844-1921)
- Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878
- STS Kapitan Borchardt, Polish sail training ship