Originally Posted By: HomelessjOe
Originally Posted By: Ben Thayer

It's a crazy old gun from early on in the period of transition to hammerless guns. It's certainly understandable how it's significance could fly right over the head of someone like JoE


Originally Posted By: Ben Thayer

12ga Trigger plate action delivered 1880




Top lever opening had been out for almost 10 years...what I see is a gun that was basically a design failure.

Sorry if it flew right over the head of someone like BeN.


So any gun that doesn't have a top lever is a "failure"?

Interesting.