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Check out this week's preview of American Rifleman TV where the crew heads to Iwo Jima for Part 5 of our series on The Men and Guns of the Pacific War.

As season five of AMC’s popular “Hell on Wheels” winds down for the year on Saturday at 9 p.m., the guns used in the show have been the source of questions—TV guns always are.

The Union and Confederate armies faced each other for the first time near Bull Run Creek in Northern Virginia, armed primarily with a hodgepodge of obsolescent smoothbores.

Although the U.S. military snubbed lever-action Winchesters, other nations, attracted by their innovation or just desperate for arms, used them from nearly the company’s inception through the mud and blood of the Great War and into the Spanish Civil War.

Find out more about a British Enfield 1853 pattern rifle-musket assembled at the Tower of London, England.

While the Fourth Model Burnside Carbines are the least valuable, it is not unusual to find them in virtually unfired condition.