Guns of the West

A brief overview of the most common firearms of the West (1870s - 1880s)

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Colt
• .45
• SAA
• 1873
• Winchester
• .45-70
• double
• barrel
• shotgun
• 12
• gauge
• black
• powder
• cap'n
• ball
• revolver
• lever
• gun
• firearms
• shooting
• targets
• Western
• Wild
• West
• Bill
• Hickok

[robbanzana]

Whatever happened to lever guns? You only saw them in the Wild West. The mechanism seems much more practical than a bolt action, yet you only see bolt action rifles in all the armies in the world wars and so on. What made the lever gun less popular at the turn of the century?

[hickok45]

@robbanzana, With a bolt gun you can fire a very hot pointed bullet (no danger of magazine detonation with bullets end to end), and the lever itself creates some problems with shooting prone. 

[TalonMercenary]

the revolver with the white grip is beautiful

[airic554]

Hickok do you have an guns that shoot cowboy loads? We got some iver and johnsons in .32 and .38 and im a little reclucant to buy ammo and fire them.. Any experience?

[Breakneckhydra1]

@Pinky117x

He DOES reload.

[Jermanaut]

@ hickok45 In regards to loading a lever gun you were kinda wondering why some people load the rounds through the loading gate by pushing them halfway in at a time. I just wanted to sorta help "shed some light on the subject"; i know with my model 94 winchester i load them that way. I don't do it necessarily for safety, but because if i don't load it in that fashion i can't get all the rounds in the gun. The other bullets get in the way when the loading gate shuts, preventing further loading. :)

[AduneStormwind]

@robbanzana A few reasons, A bolt action is extremely sturdy and can handle powerful ammunition with ease. Bolt actions are simpler in construction, Which makes them not only more reliable but also cheaper to make. And as Hickok45 mentioned, the magazine, since there is alot more space for a magazine Bolt actions tend to use internal box magazines so the bullet can be very sharply pointed without the danger of a chain detonation in your magazine.

[Pinky117x]

You should save your brass hickok45 if not just for reloading you could make a pretty amount on scrap.

[theduke502]

Hickok doin' it like a Boss :D

[dcnsqc]

i had some pretty awesome teachers in my day but Hickok45, you would have topped them all! if any of my teachers showed me a youtube video of them shooting references a novel or movie we studied, i would have lost it! NOT TO MENTION A SHOOTING VIDEO! thanks so much for the videos, keep them coming! btw i just watched the mini 14 video for the first time! Its my next gun for sure, forget the AR! I love it!

[121092cory]

I wish you would get your hands on a Winchester model 12 12 gauge and do a video and show people what a real shotgun is. Best pump ever made.

[MrPhattdirty]

greatings from France.