The novel design caught some international attention. In 1859 the carbine was described in the Danish weekly Illustreret Tidende, along with this illustration.One of the carbines used by the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, now at the Auckland War Memorial Museum
The Calisher and Terry Carbine was an early bolt-action breech-loading carbine. It used a waterproof paper cartridge ignited with a percussion cap.
Approved by the British War Office for use by cavalry, it was first issued to the 18th Hussars, but is best known for its use by the Colonial governments in Australia and New Zealand - particularly by the NZ Colonial Defence Force (NZ Forest Rangers) from July 1863 - and its occasional use in the American Civil War.
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The CalisherandTerryCarbine was an early bolt-action breech-loading carbine. It used a waterproof paper cartridge ignited with a percussion cap. Approved...
by the French Tabatière in 1857, and the British CalisherandTerrycarbine made in Birmingham and later in 1864 and the better known British Snider–Enfield...
Two 45-man bushranger companies were formed and equipped with breech loading CalisherandTerrycarbines. The Bushrangers patrolled the area surrounding...
were returned and replaced with a mixture of much shorter and lighter, CalisherandTerry breech loading carbines, and Colt Navy .36 and Beaumont–Adams...
weapon was the CalisherandTerry .54 carbine, called the Terry by the Rangers. With its short barrel, light weight, breech loading and waterproofed cartridge...
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