Ord. Manuals, Memoranda, and Reports,
F. Malloy's Newsletters, and Specialty Books

  • Selected Ordnance Notes from the Indian Wars Period
    TOPIC: Many Topics from the period and a complete index.
    CONTENT: See list below.
    PRICE: Sold $35 for all the notes + $5 postage
    Complete Index to Ord. Notes
    O.N. #47 - Firing Pins and Firing Pin Springs
    O.N. #48 - Calibre .45 Rifles and Carbines Damaged in Service
    O.N. #55 - Use of Rifle Ammunition in Carbines .45
    O.N. #57 - Extractors for Headless Cartridge Shells
    O.N. #60 - Disabled Small Arms Relative Merits of the Headless Shell Exractor
    O.N. #79 - Service Cartridge Specifications
    O.N. #86 - Anomalies of Small-Arms Practice
    O.N. #99 - Protruding Firing Pins
    O.N. #101 - Re-Browning Rifles. Carbines, and Revolvers
    O.N. #114 - Care of Reloading Hand Tools
    O.N. #115 - Captured Indian Guns
    O.N. #117 - Swollen Barrels in Service Small Arms
    O.N. #118 - Tests of Cartridges
    O.N. #122 - Inspection of the Arms of the Fifth U.S. Infantry
    O.N. #125 - Cartridge Annealing Furnace and Arms Rack for 20 Rifles
    O.N. #141 - Long Range Rifing
    O.N. #161 - Report on Long Range Cartridges
    O.N. #163 - Deflections of Small Arms Projectiles
    O.N. #298 - Improved Arms Rack
    O.N. #311 - Headless Shell Extractor for Springfield Rifles and Carbines

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  • Original Spencer Wolf book titled: Loading Cartridges For The .45-70 Springfield Rifle and Carbine.
    TOPIC: The book details all the techniques that Spencer Wolf used to load ammunition to give the same results at
    long range that was achieved with Frankford Arsenal cartridges.
    CONTENT: This is the starting reference for anyone wanting to do competition shooting with a trapdoor arm.
    PRICE: Sold $15 + $3 postage

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  • Reproducvtion of the Ordnance Book, Manufactures at National Armory 1772-1877.
    TOPIC: The book details all the items purchased and made in the 1872-1877 period.
    CONTENT: This is a very important time at the armory since it covers early M73 production and all the changes made in the 1877 period.
    PRICE: Sold $10+ $3 postage

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  • Original 1883 Ordnance Report for the Selection of Magazine Guns for the U.S. Military Service
    (Appendix to the 1882 Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance). About 100 pages. Many plates showing rifle details.
    TOPIC: 1882 Report for Selecting a Magazine Rifle. The drawings are fold-out and no attached to the book. Note, the booklet does not have a cover
    CONTENTS: Report shows testing details on approximately 40 guns.
    PRICE: Sold $25 + $5 postage

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