Word: muskets
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Remington Arms Co., Inc., older than Winchester by nearly half a century, always its peer. The first Remington rifle was made by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. He died in 1861, weakened by the strain of upping production for the Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper...