A Civil War Bolt Action! Paper Cartridges Shoots the Greene Rifle

The first US military bolt action rifle, and the first military rifle ever to use locking lugs on a bolt, was the Greene rifle. It had many brilliant concepts, including Lancaster oval bore rifling, but the modern features of the Greene rifle were frustrated by the use of paper cartridges. In a few years, metallic cartridges would vindicate Greene’s bolt action system, which would be adopted by just about every military in earth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.