canuck
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Post by canuck on Jan 21, 2012 23:10:35 GMT -5
I just came across one for sale - first I'd ever seen. Pricey, but very cool! May have to add it to the stable Fair bit of info about them on the 'net, anyone one here have one? Do you shoot it? The 44 Evans cartridge is sure an oddball. Idea of value? (pic stolen from the web - not the one I am considering)
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canuck
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Post by canuck on Mar 22, 2012 13:43:43 GMT -5
Looks like no one has an opinion on the Evans Rifles I bought the one I originally posted about and thought I'd show it. Made in the late 1880s, this one is chambered in .44 Evans Long The cartridges are loaded into the helical magazine contained in the buttstock, through the port in the buttplate. The lever ejects a spent cartridge and turns the helical coil introducing a new round to the chamber area. Pretty cool, but lots of moving parts there!
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Post by mtmarfield on Mar 23, 2012 22:26:05 GMT -5
Greetings!
I have an Evans NM Carbine for sale on a CAS site. There is a bit of interest in these odd repeaters amongst the Cowboys, probably due to the Tom Sellek "Crossfire Trail" movie, where one of the characters uses one. Cartridges are not that difficult to make, but are involved for reloaders unaccustomed to black powder loading techniques, and various degrees of case forming. They are definitely fascinating, and would have probably been more popular if they could have been reloaded faster!
Be Well!
MTMarfield 3-23-12
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