Loading gates and tubes

[Lafitte]

Great minds think alike. I was asking this question in my own head just the other day. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

There is a good reason why the loading gate was invented. I put thousands of rounds per year through the gate, am glad I don't have to do it through a telescoping tube!
Lafitte

 

[mcb]

Sure there is room for both, as I have said on both threads, these guns are toys....we can have toys any way we want them. My point is that history chose the gate over the tube...some people can't get bast that history chose the gate as the better system. Some also have issues accepting that most would rather have the gate when it came down to it, for no other reason then that is the way John Wayne did it.

Same goes with the safety....If I have a round in the chamber this is what half cock is for, and is a safe way to carry it...I like it the "way it was" then again I shoot my trapdoor with black powder, so you can see what camp I fall into, even if it is a lever gun in 357 I want it history.

I agree with your comment on history and the gate. My personal preference, which I shared way up thread is for the loading gate. That said if someone wants or is indifferent to the tube load have at it. I own only two lever guns but they are both gate loaders, A Winchester 9410 (most fun shotgun I have ever owned!) and a Rossi M92. Like you I would have preferred them without an add-on safety but the 9410 has never been built without one and for the price I paid for my M92 I could accept the safety. Having owned both for a few years now I have found a use for the safeties even if its a bit superfluous.

 

[Gary A]

The idea of a lever gun with both tube and gate loading has repeatedly been mentioned and it is true that Rossi offered that option with the 1892 in 454 Casull. I realize for various reasons Rossis have virtually disappeared from the marketplace but why did Rossi discontinue the 1892 in 454? Did that cartridge ultimately prove too much for the 1892 action?

 

[DPris]

Lack of sales.
Denis

 

[Tommygunn]

The idea of a lever gun with both tube and gate loading has repeatedly been mentioned and it is true that Rossi offered that option with the 1892 in 454 Casull. I realize for various reasons Rossis have virtually disappeared from the marketplace but why did Rossi discontinue the 1892 in 454? Did that cartridge ultimately prove too much for the 1892 action?

I've heard reports of that action failing in 454 Casull.

 

[Newtosavage]

There is a good reason why the loading gate was invented. I put thousands of rounds per year through the gate, am glad I don't have to do it through a telescoping tube!
Lafitte

Yea, but what if you could have both! How many rounds did you have to empty by working the lever that you could have emptied through a tube instead?