FourNineFoxtrot
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I apologize if these are particularly stupid questions, or if they've been asked before. I did a search on the subject, came up empty.
The first question: Is there or has there been a lever gun that shoots semi-auto pistol cartridges? I ask because I recently saw a movie (the new Resident Evil) where a character feeds what appear to be 9mm ball rounds into her Winchester lever gun... hardly an uncommon movie type glitch, but it caught my eye. My first thought was "Yeah, right...", but my second thought was, "Hey... why not? That'd be pretty cool." What I assume is that there's some feature of short, rimless semi-auto cartridges that screws with the lever-style action/horizontal tube magazine, but I'd appreciate it if somebody who knows could enlighten me.
The second question is about capacity. The highest cap I've found poking around online, looking up lever rifles, is for the now-discontinued Winchester models, holding 12 in the tube for .357/.44/.45LC. Others, like Marlin, state their cap at around 9/10. I used to read a lot of westerns, enjoyed them immensely. Probably they helped draw me to firearms in the first place. Now, some of these westerns (I think it was in a Ralph Compton book) mention the capacity of the old-style Winchesters at around 16 or 17, IIRC. Is that true? Did the old school lever guns really hold more rounds than the modern ones? Are the newer ones deliberately limited in capacity?
I don't have any personal experience with lever guns, so I'd appreciate some input from folks who do.
The first question: Is there or has there been a lever gun that shoots semi-auto pistol cartridges? I ask because I recently saw a movie (the new Resident Evil) where a character feeds what appear to be 9mm ball rounds into her Winchester lever gun... hardly an uncommon movie type glitch, but it caught my eye. My first thought was "Yeah, right...", but my second thought was, "Hey... why not? That'd be pretty cool." What I assume is that there's some feature of short, rimless semi-auto cartridges that screws with the lever-style action/horizontal tube magazine, but I'd appreciate it if somebody who knows could enlighten me.
The second question is about capacity. The highest cap I've found poking around online, looking up lever rifles, is for the now-discontinued Winchester models, holding 12 in the tube for .357/.44/.45LC. Others, like Marlin, state their cap at around 9/10. I used to read a lot of westerns, enjoyed them immensely. Probably they helped draw me to firearms in the first place. Now, some of these westerns (I think it was in a Ralph Compton book) mention the capacity of the old-style Winchesters at around 16 or 17, IIRC. Is that true? Did the old school lever guns really hold more rounds than the modern ones? Are the newer ones deliberately limited in capacity?
I don't have any personal experience with lever guns, so I'd appreciate some input from folks who do.