What type of lever-action is this?

[Third_Rail]

Unfortunately I don't have a picture... I'd like to know what kind of lever action it is when the magazine tube is in the stock, loaded by taking a rod/spring out of the buttplate and dropping cartridges in, then putting it back.


Saw one in Unforgiven, but didn't catch the name.

 

[Jim Watson]

Spencer.
http://www.hackman-adams.com/guns/spencer.htm
is just one of many sites that describe it.
Google, man, Google.

 

[Third_Rail]

I did google, though with the wrong terms it seems... "stock tube magazine" and the like. Thank you!



EDIT: Are there no new production lever or pump rifles using a magazine like that?

 

[Gewehr98]

Don't forget that the Spencer Rifle was a lever-action, of sorts...

The triggerguard was the lever.

See here:

http://armscollectors.com/mgs/spencer_repeating_rifle.htm

 

[Jim Watson]

I don't know of any modern lever or pump rifle using a buttstock magazine. There are some .22 autos and the really fancy Cosmi auto shotgun.
But you can get a reproduction Spencer.

Romano is making the real deal (except for centerfire ignition so you can actually shoot it)
http://www.romanorifle.com/SPENCER_Firearms/spencer_firearms.html
Kind of expensive, though.

Taylor's sells an Eyetalian copy
http://www.taylorsfirearms.com/prod...rearms&subcategory=Model 1865 Spencer Carbine
and available in pistol calibers easier to feed than .56-.50
Still not cheap.

I think there is another brand but suspect it is just another importer for the same Armi-Sport gun as Taylor.

If you are just wild about the whole idea, check out the Evans. Showed up with Wilfred Brimley in one of the Selleck westerns.
http://www.leverguns.com/articles/blancard/evans.htm

 

[mustanger98]

Spencers had a 7rd tube magazine in the stock. Soldiers carried extra magazines. Caliber was .56 Spencer and it was a rimfire.

Southerners called it "that damn yankee rifle you load on Sunday and shoot the rest of the week."

There's a company, last I knew, making high priced Spencer type rifles in more available calibers catering to the SASS/CAS crowd.

 

[Father Knows Best]

Yep. I've owned two of the Armi Sport (Taylor's) Spencers -- one in .44 Russian and the other in .45 S&W (Schofield). I sold both. They were both beautiful and had a high "gee whiz" factor, but they didn't work worth a darn. They jammed repeatedly. I know other guys who had them, with similar experiences as mine. Supposedly, the new .56-50 centerfire versions work a little better, but I haven't been able to verify that through personal experience.

The L. Romano guns have a great reputation, and a price to match -- $3,000+.

 

[Third_Rail]

That's a shame... I like the idea of a buttstock magtube much more than I like the tube under the barrel.