Yes I got to fire one in 45-90 once and it was a hoss. I saw one in 50-110 at a gun show once and fell in love with it but could never afford one. If I tried to fire one now with my screwed up ribs it would probably kill me.
I don't know how bad the recoil would be because there so heavy and relatively low pressure. I heard the 1895 Winchester in .405 was pretty bad because most of them had crescent butt plates and it had a pretty quick and sharp recoil.
I think they were lighter that the 1886 too.
Yeah the 1895 was there modern rifle made for smokeless loads, I always thought it was also the ugliest lever gun that Winchester made. I would love to have a model 71 in .348 but there high, even the Browning copies are getting up there.
My father loved levers and would not shoot anything else. I always wanted to get him an 1895 in 30.06.
Interesting fact about the model 95, there was a hunter from Oklahoma named Charles Cotter that got killed by a rhino in the early 1900's because he was a firm believer in lever guns and wouldn't use an express rifle. The .405 didn't have enough stuff that day to stop a charging rhino and it hooked him and killed him.
I think they made them in .30-40 Krag to
Got the wrong JD Jones, The one I found the article on was a 26 year old rodeo cowboy, SSK's JD Jones is still alive and well and has a birthday next month, he'll be 86
I read were he liked the 30-30 but don't know if that was what that kid was killed with....That was a real screw job he got, recent findings showed that he was 30 miles away when that kid was killed. Cattle baron's were getting panicked about how effective his "regulating" was.
You're right, I got the wrong info on SSK's JD Jones
Seems like I read somewhere that he had 30-30 which makes sense in the early 1900's. I know in the movie they said McQueen only used the '76 for close up camera shots and the rest of the time he had a '94 because it was so much easier to handle.
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