{"id":54457,"date":"2020-05-05T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54457"},"modified":"2020-05-04T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:35:27","slug":"early-lever-action-rifles-volcanic-henry-winchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/05\/05\/early-lever-action-rifles-volcanic-henry-winchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Lever-Action Rifles: Volcanic, Henry, Winchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HLS9OQoWbNM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 6 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>Hammer prices:<br \/>\nVolcanic &#8211; $19,550<br \/>\n1860 Henry &#8211; $15,960<br \/>\n1866 Winchester &#8211; $8,625<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all seen lever action rifles galore in movies about the old west, and most of us have handled and shot a bunch of them as well. But do you know where they came from?<\/p>\n<p>Today we will take a look at the first American lever-action rifle put into successful (more or less) production, the Volcanic. We will then continue to examine the 1860 Henry and the 1866 Winchester to get a foundational understanding of the development of these guns, and the interesting group of people involved with them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-05-Early-Lever-Action-Rifles-Volcanic-Henry-Winchester.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-05-Early-Lever-Action-Rifles-Volcanic-Henry-Winchester-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-05-Early-Lever-Action-Rifles-Volcanic-Henry-Winchester-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-05-Early-Lever-Action-Rifles-Volcanic-Henry-Winchester-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-05-Early-Lever-Action-Rifles-Volcanic-Henry-Winchester-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-05-Early-Lever-Action-Rifles-Volcanic-Henry-Winchester-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-05-Early-Lever-Action-Rifles-Volcanic-Henry-Winchester.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 6 Feb 2016 Hammer prices: Volcanic &#8211; $19,550 1860 Henry &#8211; $15,960 1866 Winchester &#8211; $8,625 We&#8217;ve all seen lever action rifles galore in movies about the old west, and most of us have handled and shot a bunch of them as well. But do you know where they came from? Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,663],"tags":[140,1366,49,174],"class_list":["post-54457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-design","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eal","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56942,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54457\/revisions\/56942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}