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  2. Henry rifle - Wikipedia

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    The Henry repeating rifle is a lever-action tubular ... copy Henry Model 1860 chambered in .44-40 Winchester or .45 Colt, rather than the original .44 Henry rimfire. ...

  3. Henry Repeating Arms - Wikipedia

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    Henry Repeating Arms released the Side-Gate lever-action rifle chambered in .30-30 Win, .38-55 Win, .35 Rem, and .45-70 Gov't in 2018. This is their first rifle to feature a loading gate allowing ammo to be loaded, reloaded, or topped off as needed from the rear of the tubular magazine.

  4. .45-70 - Wikipedia

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    The .45-70 (11.6x53mmR), also known as the .45-70 Government, .45-70 Springfield, and .45-2 1 ⁄ 10" Sharps, is a .45 caliber rifle cartridge originally holding 70 grains of black powder that was developed at the U.S. Army's Springfield Armory for use in the Springfield Model 1873.

  5. Lever action - Wikipedia

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    The toggle-link action used in the iconic Winchester Model 1873 rifle, one of the most famous lever-action firearms. A lever action is a type of action for repeating firearms that uses a manually operated cocking handle located around the trigger guard area (often incorporating it) that pivots forward to move the bolt via internal linkages, which will feed and extract cartridges into and out ...

  6. Winchester rifle - Wikipedia

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    Winchester rifle is a comprehensive term describing a series of lever action repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Developed from the 1860 Henry rifle, Winchester rifles were among the earliest repeaters. The Model 1873 was particularly successful, being marketed by the manufacturer as "The Gun That Won the West".

  7. List of most-produced firearms - Wikipedia

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    Lever-action rifle United States: 1,000,000+ [138] Savage Model 99: 1,000,000+ [139] PK machine gun: General-purpose machine gun Soviet Union: 1,000,000+ Smith & Wesson M&P Shield: Semi-automatic pistol United States: 1,000,000+ 1 million mark reached in December 2015 [140] Henry Lever-Action .22: Lever-action rifle 1,000,000+ Announced in ...

  8. Benjamin Tyler Henry - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Tyler Henry (March 22, 1821 – June 8, 1898 [1]) was an American gunsmith and manufacturer. He was the inventor of the Henry rifle , the first reliable lever-action repeating rifle . Henry was born in Claremont, New Hampshire , in 1821.

  9. List of rifles - Wikipedia

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    A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.