I LOVE THE MOVIE!!!!“You know your weapons. It's a lever-action, breech loader. Usual barrel length's thirty inches. This one has an extra four. It's converted to use a special forty-five caliber, hundred and ten grain metal cartridge, with a five-hundred forty grain paper patch bullet. It's fitted with double set triggers, and a Vernier sight. It's marked up to twelve-hundred yards. This one shoots a mite further.” Matthew Quigley
Now I'm intrigued.
How is a gun semi auto but single shot?
Here's another unique one for you. A Semi-auto Revolver.
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/early-automatic-pistols/webley-fosbery/
What would you consider this.? It has a Lever, no ammo tube, no exposed hammer, ejects brass like it robbed a bank.
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I was shooting that gun at deer camp (more like we scared the deer away camp) 45-70. One of the guys said “Nice Lever Action”, I was offended. So I let him shoot it with my super hot 405gn HC. He said it hurt.A single shot.
I think the old Ithaca .22 Saddlegun was also a single shot lever action falling block.I call the Ruger No 1 an "underlever falling block" so as to avoid Internet Confusion with a lever action repeater.
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It's a Winchester Model 55. I saw one at a gun show with a sign on it that said, "Winchester's Edsel."
Just like any other semi-auto, you have to "cock it" for the first shot, then when you shove a round into the chamber through the trapdoor like thing on top, it automatically put's the rifle on "safe."
When you take it off "safe" and fire it, it automatically ejects the empty case out through a port in the bottom of the stock, and re-cocks itself - again, just like any other semi-auto.
My mom and dad gave me my Winchester Model 55 for my 10th birthday in 1958. I'm not sure exactly why Winchester ever came out with such a rifle, but I suspect somebody might have thought it would be a great design for a kid's first gun. I know that's what my mom and dad thought - they told me so.
The thing is though, it wasn't a great design for every kid's first gun. That port in the bottom of the stock where the HOT, spent cases fall out is located right where I placed my left hand when I was 10 years old. I had an almost constant blister in the palm of my left hand until I grew a little.
BTW, I still have that rifle, and it still shoot great 64 years later.
I've heard it called a: One-shot full auto!
Open bolt firearms are effectively illegal now because most are convertible to full automatic.
There are a lot of kluges for closed bolt operation in those "pistols" that used to be submachine guns.
Yeppers, mine is already cracked, so I'm very careful when I load it - which isn't often.I am told the trap door is the weak point and very hard to find if it breaks.
Savage 99s and Ruger 96s have magazines that revolve...It’s a lever operated bolt. The trigger is single-action, but nothing revolves.
My '73 is in 32-20 with a 30" magazine tube. It holds 17 or 18 rounds!I classify the original '73 I had as an early assault rifle, with its 14 round capacity.
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