va27 said:when the zombie hoards come
and you're hanging by your knees
from the flying trapeze,
you'll be wishing you had a '73!
I ran a few rounds through mine (a Browning copy) and that is what I found as well. FWIW, I was using Fed. PP 150gr. from WW. It seemed to perform equally well at all angles.FWIW (essentially zero value), the Winchester 1895 appears to cycle reliably upside down. (Using 150gr FMJBT's in .30-06)
Anyone know if any military ever adopted a lever gun in widespread use?
Wrong, the Winchester 1895 chambered for the .30-40Krag (M1895, caliber .30Govt. military designation) was adopted by the US Army prior to the Spanish-American war and used during the conflict. They were issued in relatively small numbers (numbering only in the tens of thousands) and had a limited service life (only a few years IIRC), but they were adopted and from all accounts served the riflemen well. This was the rifle used by Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" and later became his chosen "lion medicine" (chambered for the .405Win.).Jason_W said:[Lever rifles] were never adopted by the US military...
Wrong, the Winchester 1895 chambered for the .30-40Krag (M1895, caliber .30Govt. military designation) was adopted by the US Army prior to the Spanish-American war and used during the conflict. They were issued in relatively small numbers (numbering only in the tens of thousands) and had a limited service life (only a few years IIRC), but they were adopted and from all accounts served the riflemen well. This was the rifle used by Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" and later became his chosen "lion medicine" (chambered for the .405Win.).
I'll second his experiences with jammingSome Marlin's have issues with jamming if you do not work the lever fast enough to bounce the round into the chamber. My 1895G chewed the nose off bullets for a while because the bottom edge was hanging as it entered the chamber. I called Marlin and they said it was user error. I have since worked on the lever a little and it works great. It's a design flaw if you ask me. Fairly easy to fix though. When buying now I check to see if the carrier is coming up high enough to offer a straight shot into the chamber.
IIRC (it's been awhile), the Indian tribes that fought Custer had mixed arms: about a third had repeaters, about a third had single shots (same as the cavalry), and a third had bows and arrows.
I believe so; that round was the .30-03Govt. and beget the venerable .30-06Springfield (nearly identical save for the shorter neck, higher pressure, and lighter spitzer projectile). Another interesting little tidbit is that the .270Win. and .280Rem. is actually based upon the .30-03, not the .30-06 as is often believed, you can see evidence of this by the lightly longer length of the .270Win. & .280Rem. (other cartridges are based upon the shorter .30-06, including but not limited to the 6mm-06, .25-06Rem., 6.5mm-06A-Square, 8mm-06, .338-06A-Square, and .35Whelen).Wasn't it experiences during the Spanish American war (US troops coming up against the 7x57 mm) that got us working on a speedy, pointy round of our own?
True, but it wasn't a terribly fast cartridge (roughly between the .30-30Win. and .300Sav.), and FWIW the .30-03 wasn't a spitzer (which undoubtedly led to it's early demise).30-40 krag comes in there somewhere, IIRC just before the 03