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Is the lever action rifle strictly an American thing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Catt57" data-source="post: 3843232" data-attributes="member: 34578"><p>I would have to argue that while the Lever-Action is certainly an American thing. it was not the first.</p><p>In the 1820s (sources can't seem to agree on the date) Cesar Rosaglio, an Italian gunsmith received the first patent for a six-shot lever action that fired its magazine in six seconds. There are debates on whether it ever became anything more than a patent. </p><p></p><p>But for sure the first commercially successful lever actions and the mechanical mechanism as we know it today are truly American. </p><p></p><p></p><p>------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_action[/URL]</p><p></p><p>In 1826, a lever-action revolver capable of firing six shots in less than six seconds was produced in Italy by Cesar Rosaglio and patented in 1829.</p><p></p><p>The first lever-action rifles on the market were likely the Colt's 1st and 2nd Model Ring Lever rifles, both cap and ball rifles, produced by the Patent Arms Mfg. Co. Paterson, N.J.-Colt's Patent between 1837 and 1841. The ring lever was located in front of the trigger. This loading lever, when pulled, would index the cylinder to the next position and cock the internal hidden hammer.</p><p></p><p>Multiple lever-action designs including the Volcanic pistol were designed before the American Civil War, but the first significant designs were the Spencer repeating rifle and Henry rifle both created in 1860. The Spencer was a lever-operated rifle with a removable seven-round tube magazine designed by Christopher Spencer. Over 20,000 were made, and it was adopted by the United States and used during the American Civil War, which marked the first adoption of an infantry and cavalry rifle with a removable magazine by any country. The early Spencer's rifle lever only served to unlock the action and chamber a new round; the hammer had to be cocked separately after chambering.</p><p></p><p>The Henry rifle, invented by Benjamin Tyler Henry, a gunsmith employed by Oliver Winchester, had a centrally located hammer that was cocked by the rearward movement of the bolt rather than an offset hammer typical of muzzle-loading rifles. The Henry also placed the magazine under the barrel rather than in the buttstock, a trend followed by most tube magazines ever since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catt57, post: 3843232, member: 34578"] I would have to argue that while the Lever-Action is certainly an American thing. it was not the first. In the 1820s (sources can't seem to agree on the date) Cesar Rosaglio, an Italian gunsmith received the first patent for a six-shot lever action that fired its magazine in six seconds. There are debates on whether it ever became anything more than a patent. But for sure the first commercially successful lever actions and the mechanical mechanism as we know it today are truly American. ------------ [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_action[/URL] In 1826, a lever-action revolver capable of firing six shots in less than six seconds was produced in Italy by Cesar Rosaglio and patented in 1829. The first lever-action rifles on the market were likely the Colt's 1st and 2nd Model Ring Lever rifles, both cap and ball rifles, produced by the Patent Arms Mfg. Co. Paterson, N.J.-Colt's Patent between 1837 and 1841. The ring lever was located in front of the trigger. This loading lever, when pulled, would index the cylinder to the next position and cock the internal hidden hammer. Multiple lever-action designs including the Volcanic pistol were designed before the American Civil War, but the first significant designs were the Spencer repeating rifle and Henry rifle both created in 1860. The Spencer was a lever-operated rifle with a removable seven-round tube magazine designed by Christopher Spencer. Over 20,000 were made, and it was adopted by the United States and used during the American Civil War, which marked the first adoption of an infantry and cavalry rifle with a removable magazine by any country. The early Spencer's rifle lever only served to unlock the action and chamber a new round; the hammer had to be cocked separately after chambering. The Henry rifle, invented by Benjamin Tyler Henry, a gunsmith employed by Oliver Winchester, had a centrally located hammer that was cocked by the rearward movement of the bolt rather than an offset hammer typical of muzzle-loading rifles. The Henry also placed the magazine under the barrel rather than in the buttstock, a trend followed by most tube magazines ever since. [/QUOTE]
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