Vasilakis E1289 Carbine

The Vasilakis E1289 Carbine is a repeating rifle produced by Vasilakis Arms. It was the first successful repeating rifle ever designed, featuring a detachable tube magazine in the wooden butt. Cartridges are loaded into the chamber by operating the trigger-guard lever. The external hammer has to be cocked before each shot.   Preloaded tubes can speed reloading (five ready maneuvers to reload, or three seconds per cartridge to top up a tube). At 11" in length, the 0.6-lb. tubes are fairly unwieldy and usually carried in a purpose-designed case holding 6 or 10.   The E1289 Carbine was the service rifle of the Kaisan Army from 1290 - 1295, when it was replaced by the E1295 Carbine.   The E1295 Carbine is the direct successor of the E1289, chambered in .56-50 Vasilakis (still 3d+2 pi+). It allows the shooter to load a round directly into the chamber, keeping the magazine in reserve. It became the main weapon of the Kaisan, Campeni, Sorfaitan, and Tehanti forces until the early 1300s and continued to be used by Kaisan cavalry and the Tehanti military through the 1310s.