Trapper Jim Baker was seriously hurt ...

Magazine? I guess that must have been his powder horn or flask. No cartridge repeater rifles yet in 1858....

Yes, it is rather confusing about the rifle(?). I can't seem to find a magazine on any of my flint or cap locks.

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The first rifle with a magazine was the Spencer repeating rifle, which was adopted in 1860.
The Spencer repeating rifles and carbines were 19th-century American lever-action firearms invented by Christopher Spencer in 1858. The first rifle with a magazine was the Spencer repeating rifle, which was adopted in 1860 by our government.

The Spencer was the world's first military metallic-cartridge repeating rifle, and over 200,000 examples were manufactured in the United States by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. and Burnside Rifle Co. between 1860 and 1869.

The Spencer repeating rifle was adopted by the Union Army, especially by the cavalry, during the American Civil War but did not replace the standard issue muzzle-loading rifled muskets in use at the time.

Among the early users was George Armstrong Custer. The Spencer carbine was a shorter and lighter version designed for the cavalry.

Other rifles with magazines include:

I. The bolt-action Krag–Jørgensen rifle, designed in Norway in 1886, which used a unique rotary magazine that was built into the receiver.

II. The Russian contract Winchester Model 1895 in the ‘Military Musket’ configuration, which was the first rifle chambered the US standard rifle cartridge of the time, the.45-70, and the weapon was clearly intended for military service.

III. The Leroux Magazine Gun, which was demonstrated at the Exposition Universelle (1855) in France. It was a repeating carbine with a magazine for 36 Flobert cartridges and which featured a novel cartridge extractor.

Baker's life span was 1818–1898, so it's possible he had a cartridge gun with a magazine. Just what was it, a Spenser, a Winchester? Several magazine guns available near the end of his life.

To quote: "That led to a terrible accident in 1858. While practicing with his rifle, the magazine exploded," so not near the end of his life, but just about when the Spencer rifle was invented. Considering that it took out a good part of his face, maybe instead of magazine that should be the chamber or the barrel....

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