New Winchester 94 Trapper

slabsides · Post by **slabsides** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:40 am

And a Happy New Year to you!
Incidentally...re: Lucas McCain, the Rapid Reloading Rifleman: My boys were great fans of the show, and I observed that his carbine (would have been a Winchester 92 in .38-40 or .44-40, probably) was modified with a screw in the lever that would trip the hammer each time it was worked. There was an article in Guns Magazine describing the modification, a way back when. An alternative was a folding lever pinned into the trigger guard that could be flipped up for slamfire and folded down like a jack-knife blade for regular levering. Cute, but I'll take a standard action and aimed fire over 'slamfire and pray' any day.
To tell you the truth, I've never seen much sense in the big loop lever. John Wayne could spin-load his, but most of us have hands smaller than Virginia hams, and the regular loop serves very well.

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:10 pm

slabsides wrote:And a Happy New Year to you!
Incidentally...re: Lucas McCain, the Rapid Reloading Rifleman: My boys were great fans of the show, and I observed that his carbine (would have been a Winchester 92 in .38-40 or .44-40, probably) was modified with a screw in the lever that would trip the hammer each time it was worked. There was an article in Guns Magazine describing the modification, a way back when. An alternative was a folding lever pinned into the trigger guard that could be flipped up for slamfire and folded down like a jack-knife blade for regular levering. Cute, but I'll take a standard action and aimed fire over 'slamfire and pray' any day.
To tell you the truth, I've never seen much sense in the big loop lever. John Wayne could spin-load his, but most of us have hands smaller than Virginia hams, and the regular loop serves very well.

Right you are my friend and it was a 44.40 of course as in that time period that was the rifle to have and you carried a six gun of the same caliber to make the ammo selection simpler.
Chuck was a big man about 6'5" anf played for the Celtics part of one season and then played pro baseball. Her is a link to his information. http://www.riflemansrifle.com/the_riflemans_rifle.htm