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    Hint on the pretty rifle. They might have made as many as 10 rifles all together . This rifle they only made three of .
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    And if the over 70 memory banks are kicking right the Evans was also knicky-named " the grapevine".
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    Correctamundo on the Evans - here's my last one:


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    Wilford Brimley carried an Evans in a Tom Selleck movie - CROSSFIRE TRAIL, a Louis L'Amour story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pietro View Post
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    Correctamundo on the Evans - here's my last one:


    ?? I think you got me on that one .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddie Southgate View Post
    Hint on the pretty rifle. They might have made as many as 10 rifles all together . This rifle they only made three of .
    So, what is it? And who made it? The tall breech looks unusual to me. But beautiful craftsmanship.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddie Southgate View Post
    ?? I think you got me on that one .

    It's a Whitney-Howard Thunderbolt .44RF from the mid-1860's

    http://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-ga...hot-rifle.aspx
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    Quote Originally Posted by Texas by God View Post
    So, what is it? And who made it? The tall breech looks unusual to me. But beautiful craftsmanship.

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    Smith & Wesson.

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    I love threads like this. There’s some really smart people on this forum.

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    Even more rare than the scarce levers shown before, here is an extremely rare 44-40...





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    Here's two more leverguns:











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    Quote Originally Posted by shrapnel View Post
    Even more rare than the scarce levers shown before, here is an extremely rare 44-40...




    Burgess . Actually considered a pump or slide action .
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    Quote Originally Posted by pietro View Post
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    Here's two more leverguns:











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    Top one is the 464 Mossberg with an XS Lever scout rail and an Aimpoint Micro H-2 sight .

    Next ,
    Needham & Atkinson c 1880 .450 Needham . 16 shot tube mag with two chamber cylinder elevator w/ automatic extractor .
    Last edited by Eddie Southgate; 08-25-2021 at 07:05 PM.
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    Having a problem posting a picture of an 1886 Bullard rifle action that is disassembled. The rifle had a rack and pinion, a carrier like an 1883 Win. and a rolling block. It was considered on of the smoothes lever guns but was way more expensive than a Winchester.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Taylor View Post
    Having a problem posting a picture of an 1886 Bullard rifle action that is disassembled. The rifle had a rack and pinion, a carrier like an 1883 Win. and a rolling block. It was considered on of the smoothes lever guns but was way more expensive than a Winchester.
    John ,
    Send me the picture and I'll try to post it for you . flyrodz12 at yahoo dot com
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    Maybe this is what you wanted ?
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    Here are the close up pictures from John Taylor .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddie Southgate View Post
    Evans 26 shot repeater. $40 brand new in the 1870's . This picture is an Apache in the 1880's holding an Evans.
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