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Did Us Army Ever Use Lever-Action Rifles? [Solved]
As to why the US didn’t ever adopt lever action rifles: at first, money. With the end of the Civil War, the US Army realized it needed to upgrade to breechloaders. Some ( including lever action Henry rifles) had been used by some units, mostly cavalry, but the standard arm from 1860-65 was still a muzzleloading rifle.19 Mar 2017
What if…the US Army adopted Lever Guns in the 1870s?
The 1860 Henry and 1866 Winchester cut a bloody swath in the “old west” not due to the power of the cartridge, but based on their …
TAB Short: Why Wasn’t the Winchester Repeating Rifle Adopted?
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American Icons: The Lever Action Rifle
Lever action rifles
