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The sharps 1859 is neither a breakable design gun nor does it use cartridges. (at least nothing like we understand in common as cartridge)
It is a "falling block" design percussion rifle with breach loading. You open the breach by pulling the lever down; place the bullet into the barrel from behind, fill the chamber with black powder (black powder only!!!) completely full, close the breach, place a cap on the piston, cock it an fire.
Normally there were used paper cartridges instead of loose black powder, where the black powder was inside a paper roll and the twisted end of the paper roll was cut off by the block when closing the breach.
later on, also metal tubes with a hole at the bottom (similar to cartridges) were used to hold powder an bullet, which was but still fired by percussion caps.
Another thing is that there are replicas of this rifle made so you can fire it if you buy one.
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