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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.

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.

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

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.

While there are many military rifles that have seen extensive service, the Italian M1870/87/15 Vetterli-Vitali stands out as one of the longest-serving military rifles in any guise.