The Volcanic, with its Rocket Ball cartridge, was infamously underpowered, and the inherently weak design of early lever-action operating mechanisms meant the guns were only suitable for handgun ...

Best Lever Action Rifles Ever Made ... Its mechanism has a glassy smoothness that you can find only in other firearms of the time and in hardly any modern ones at all.

Sometimes the external part of the lever was bent to the right and upward, resulting in the side-lever action. Representative of this action is the double-barreled pistol illustrated in Figure 3.

By 1860 B.Tyler Henry had concocted a mechanism to feed cartridges from a tube onto a loading ramp also activated by the lever. And the race was on: Winchester, Marlin…Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley.

What is a lever? A lever is a simple mechanism that can help make hard work easier to do. It has three important parts: load; fulcrum; effort; Levers can help to lift heavy loads, as well as make ...

Designed in the United States over 170 years ago, the lever-action rifle is, perhaps, the most iconic American firearm. An offshoot of earlier prototypes, the Henry and Spencer lever-actions were ...

Many lever-action .30-30 models are still being produced today, nearly a century and a quarter after the original. One of those is the original .30-30—the Winchester ’94. That model, which many ...

The Lever Action Supreme also has an AR15-like rotary bolt, but the action is driven by a quad-bar linkage and slider crank mechanism. It has a tang safety, but there’s no external hammer, and ...