And as sure as Henry rifles out-shot rifled muskets, the 19th-Century design remains too fun and too cool and, for certain situations, too useful for relegation to strictly a nostalgia-gun role. Too intertwined with our country, its history and mythology, this particularly American rifle will not go quietly into the good night. Yet, there’s no way these repeaters are going the way of the dodo any time soon. Almost any job you’d demand is done better by a more contemporary design - and almost certainly taxes your wallet less. It might bend some shooters' noses out of place, but the lever-action is an anachronism in comparison to today’s technology. What are the great repeaters?īy any stretch of the imagination, the lever-action rifle should have been consigned to the ash heap of history long ago.īy most accounts, it’s not as accurate as most bolt-actions, and at the same tick it most certainly is not as fast shot to shot as almost all semi-automatics. Nothing puts low-down varmints in their place or meat on the table with more style than the All-American lever-action rifle.
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