A Swiss Model 1869 carbine in 10.4x38mm, the Vetterli design, with a six-round tubular magazine. The carbine is a cut-down conversion of the Model 1869/71 rifle, carried out in the 1870s and 1880s; these rifles served from 1869 to 1890. It measures 38 1/2 inches overall with a 21-inch barrel, and all serial numbers match.

Condition is very good to excellent: the wood is excellent with minor dents and dings and some age cracking in the buttstock, the metal has a brown patina, and the bore is dark in the grooves. The Vetterli was an early repeating military rifle, and a matching-number carbine is a scarce thing for a collector of nineteenth-century arms. It is a collector's arm rather than a Utah hunting rifle, and that is how we offer it; the magazine, the conversion history and the matching numbers are the points that matter here.

Key features

• 10.4x38mm Vetterli carbine
• Six-round tubular magazine
• 21-inch barrel, 38 1/2 inches overall
• Matching serial numbers
• Converted from the Model 1869/71 in the 1870s-1880s

The carbine ships to the Utah FFL dealer you choose at checkout for the background check and pickup.