They are remarkably trouble free, even after over 100 years of use!......it's been said on here many times before...but not only the solid design leads to this longevity, The "secret" is the quality of materials used, ....They truly were built like the best firearms of the period, with nothing skimped, in an age when we led the word in manufacturing....carbon manganese steels, forged barrel blanks, machine cut and polished rifling, cast steel cocking levers, correct and careful heat treatment of all bearing surfaces, hand lapped and matched loading taps......etc. etc......in a state of the art (for the period) manufacturing plant staffed by highly trained, well looked after, motivated,proud people who normally made service weapons for military contracts.....each and every gun was test fired and double checked, expert competition shots of the day were employed....There was nothing in the world like Lincoln Jeffrie's gun at the time (for he really was the genius that conceived the design)........with hindsight, and with all the guns that followed that we all know, it's easy to forget what a ground breaking bit of kit these were only a short few years after the turn of the 1900's.......I wish there was someone on the BBS who could take one to a modern factory, and ask how much an exact copy, made in the same way, would cost thesedays
Originally Posted by edbear2
They are remarkably trouble free, even after over 100 years of use!......it's been said on here many times before...but not only the solid design leads to this longevity, The "secret" is the quality of materials used, ....They truly were built like the best firearms of the period, with nothing skimped, in an age when we led the word in manufacturing....carbon manganese steels, forged barrel blanks, machine cut and polished rifling, cast steel cocking levers, correct and careful heat treatment of all bearing surfaces, hand lapped and matched loading taps......etc. etc......in a state of the art (for the period) manufacturing plant staffed by highly trained, well looked after, motivated,proud people who normally made service weapons for military contracts.....each and every gun was test fired and double checked, expert competition shots of the day were employed....There was nothing in the world like Lincoln Jeffrie's gun at the time (for he really was the genius that conceived the design)........with hindsight, and with all the guns that followed that we all know, it's easy to forget what a ground breaking bit of kit these were only a short few years after the turn of the 1900's.......I wish there was someone on the BBS who could take one to a modern factory, and ask how much an exact copy, made in the same way, would cost thesedays
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