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MODEL 1882 .45/70 HEADLESS SHELL EXTRACTOR:
An improvement on the First
Pattern introduced in 1875, the Model 1882 Headless
Shell Extractor were the result of the continuing effort
to address the tendency of the soft copper cartridges to
stick in the chamber of the Model 1873 Trapdoor
Springfield Rifles and Carbines upon being fired. The
Headless Shell Extractor provided the means for the
soldier to drive out the cartridge case and rejoin the
battle, thus one of the more important gun tools from
the Indian War era. See Gun Tools, Their History and
Identification, Shaffer, Rutledge, and Dorsey, page 260
for more information.
I
have two patterns of this tool, as shown below.
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