The Tabatière rifle was a breech-loading rifle of the French Army.
French Tabatière carbine, 1867.French Garde Mobile soldier with Tabatière rifle, 1870.
The Tabatière system was developed from 1864 as a way to convert numerous muzzle-loading weapons (usually Minié rifles) into breech-loading ones, in a process similar to that of the Snider-Enfield in Great Britain, Wänzl rifle in Austria, and the Springfield Model 1866 in the United States. The name "Tabatière" comes from the fact that the breech-loading mechanism looked like a snuff box.[1]
French Tabatière mechanism, 1867.
Most of the conversion work had been accomplished by the time of the Franco-Prussian War.[1] By July 1870, roughly 358,000 rifles had been converted, while 1.4 million muzzleloaders stayed in their original configuration.[2]
The ammunition was a center fire cartridge closely resembling a shortened 12 gauge shotgun shell. This weapon system was recognized as ballistically inferior to the Chassepot rifle, therefore it was used by second line troops and in defensive roles.[1]
These are commonly encountered today as "Zulu Guns", after rifles were converted into shotguns and sold cheaply in the early 1900s.
Argentina: Acquired small amounts during the Paraguayan war.[4] A number were imported from Germany and France by Buenos Aires in 1/6/1800 along with 500.000 cartridges. Those rifles were shipped without bayonets, and were adapted to use old muzzleloader bayonets.[5]
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