Originally Posted by wabigoon
What was the first repeating rife, I thought it was Winchester? I read fifty years plus ago, the Texas Rangers were among the first to have them. The outlaws said, 'They could shoot all week, and reload on Sunday."

Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Originally Posted by Calvin
Never heard of them.


Me either. But if it doesn't fire a rimmed cartridge or utilize a flint in the ignition system, I generally am not interested.

But to each his own!!!



I wonder what they thought about the original Henry rifle. Must have been some people against the terrible lethality of it.


Very doubtful Jim! They were being employed against the South! laugh

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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester

"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."

WS