Yoda
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Why doesn’t someone make a lever action in 9mm or .45 cal? It seems to me that the only real issue would be getting a grip on the semi-rimmed semi-auto round, vice the conventional rimmed round that lever actions normally digest.
Ammo commonality and cost (in "normal" times.)What would be the benefit?
.45 ACP is no better than (maybe even slightly inferior) .45 Long Colt and .44-40, and 9mm isn't a big improvement over .38 Spl and less than .357.
Someone does!Why doesn’t someone make a lever action in 9mm or .45 cal?
I’m sure you could get something to work in this…Heck, if someone made a rifle that ran my 45acp moonclips I'd buy it.
Would 45 Auto Rim work in a 45 Colt chambered lever gun?
Why doesn’t someone make a lever action in 9mm or .45 cal?
Ed Harris wrote about a lever action in 45 ACP several decades back in American Rifleman -- today I think he'd go with the rimmed .45 Cowboy Special to get the same results with less bother:
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That pic of the increase in mag capacity would be the main reason I can think of that I'd want one. Eleven .45ACPs in the mag tube versus eight .45 Colts in a short gun like that custom trapper sure would make for an appealing home defense carbine for some areas of the USA or perhaps the world, too.
That pic of the increase in mag capacity would be the main reason I can think of that I'd want one. Eleven .45ACPs in the mag tube versus eight .45 Colts in a short gun like that custom trapper sure would make for an appealing home defense carbine for some areas of the USA or perhaps the world, too.
Still a pretty thin niche, where rifles are allowed, but not a CX4, and most of those customers are fine with carbines which fire rimmed rounds.
Shove a few loose rounds in the pocket to top off and you won't run out regardless of 11 or 8 round magazine.
Agree. Lever or pump guns chambered in short .45 cartridges would likely only get made in larger numbers if autoloaders were no longer available.
I sleep in my boxers. Now I'm thinking of sewing a ammo pocket on them. Lol.
Why noytjust get a 45ACP PCC?I'd buy a lever action in 45acp. It would go well with my S&W 625. Heck, if someone made a rifle that ran my 45acp moonclips I'd buy it.