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Up Date to the 1868-77 Peabody rifle

Chuck — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:00:02 +0000

I received a number of pictures from my friend in North Carolina that I wanted to share with all of you. My buddy was nice enough to take his rifle apart and take pictures of all of the components. It is not often someone will take apart there rifle so you can see the inside workings of it, so Thank you very much.

The first set is of the block and it’s components.

These next pictures are of the receiver with the block installed and removed.

A few more pictures of the rear sight.

The hammer and sear assembly.

The stock.

The butt plate and misc metal parts.

Again thank you for the pictures.

Here are a couple of video’s I took while on my trip through the mid-west. This is John D. Chatting about his Peabody rifle.

Another 22 single shot pistol

Chuck — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:37:57 +0000

This post is about another interesting pistol that I had an opportunity to look at while on my trip through the mid-west. This pistol is the S&M single shot pistol, called the SM Sporter 22 lr. It is a single shot pistol with an automatic opening bolt, much like a semi-auto pistol, but it stays open after every shot. This allows the shooter to reload and then using the bolt release to close the bolt. To fire the weapon make sure the safety is off and squeeze the trigger. It has the look and shape of a Ruger semi-auto pistol

A couple of views of the left side of the pistol showing the bolt release lever and the safety

You can see the firing pin on the bottom of the bolt.

Close up of the bolt release lever and safety.

An interesting and simple design. Thanks again to John D. for letting me look and study it.

Monday update 10-20

Chuck — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:46:50 +0000

This is just a quick post in that we are home after a grueling 16 hour drive. I will have a complete after action report of our 10 trip looking at guns and talking to heat treating specialist and metallurgists. We had a great time and visited some old friends and made some new ones on the trip. I will work on the trip overview to night and will start on the posts of what was learned for the rest of the weeks posts. It is go to be back home and now off to work.