I'm thinking of getting a 1860 Henry rifle in the near future and have been studying the linkage system quite a bit. It would seem to me that the weak link is the pin or I should say the pins that hold the system together. The pins today are made of better metal and are harder but still the pins can only take so much strain and over time the stress from the .44 mag has got to cause metal fatigue faster than with lower pressure loads.
But I'm new to the game so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.
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