Designed by brothers Charles and Sebre Howard and first patented in 1862, this is a single shot lever action produced by the Whitneyville Armory between 1866 and 1870. It is a really neat compact design that is all contained within a tube. The system was made in rifle, sporting rifle, and shotgun configurations, with a total production of not more than about 1700. The rifle pattern guns, like this one, were chambered for .44 Rimfire. A prototype military configuration example was tested unsuccessfully by the US military in 1867.
Light MGs
XM-248 LMG Manual
Rather than explain the background of the XM-248, I will put you in the very capable hands of Weaponsman.com, who has posted an excellent 3-part series on the development leading up to the XM-248, entitled […]
Submachine Guns
Ingram M10 & M11 SMGs: The Originals from Powder Springs
These Ingram SMGs are selling in the April 2019 Morphy’s auction: M10/45 (lot 1069), M10/9 (lot 1070), and M11 (lot 1067) After the commercial failure of Gordon Ingram’s M6 submachine gun in the early 50s, […]
Submachine Guns
M1 Thompson: Savage Simplifies the SMG
The Thompson submachine gun struggled to find a market when it was originally produced, with the first batch of 15,000 Colt-made guns not finally all selling until the late 1930s. By that time, the clouds […]
Everybody was looking to create the next great rifle sensation and hopefully obtain large lucrative military contracts. One of the more unusual designs I have ever seen. Someone ought to bring that back as a real production rifle for reenactors. They sould try the same reproduction of the Evans rifles.