The Springfield Model 1880 was a trapdoor rifle based on the design of the Springfield Model 1873.In the years following the U.S. Civil War Springfield Armory had produced bayonets by re-working older bayonets left over from the war. By 1880 their supply of bayonets had been almost completely exhausted.
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