#Lancaster repeater series

ДЇor the Volcanic rifle, Smith added a primer charge to Hunt's 'Rocket Ball' and thus created one of the first fixed metallic cartridges which incorporated bullet, primer and powder in one self-contained unit.

Its largest stockholder was Oliver Winchester. Smith made several improvements to the Jennings design, and in 1855 Smith and Wesson together with several investors formed a corporation, the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, to manufacture Smith's modification of the Hunt-Jennings, the Volcanic lever-action pistol and rifle. Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson of Norwich, Connecticut, acquired the Jennings patent from Robbins & Lawrence, as well as shop foreman Benjamin Tyler Henry. This version was produced in small numbers by Robbins & Lawrence of Windsor, Vermont until 1852. Hunt's design was fragile and unworkable, but in 1849, Lewis Jennings purchased the Hunt patents and developed a functioning, if still complex rifle. The Hunt rifle fired what he called the ' Rocket Ball', an early form of caseless ammunition in which the powder charge was contained in the bullet's hollow base. In 1848, Walter Hunt of New York patented his 'Volition Repeating Rifle' incorporating a tubular magazine, which was operated by two levers and complex linkages. Left to right Carbines two 1873/1894/92/Trapper 92. The Model 1873 was particularly successful, being marketed by the manufacturer as 'The Gun That Won the West'.

Developed from the 1860 Henry rifle, Winchester rifles were among the earliest repeaters.

#Lancaster repeater series

Winchester rifle is a comprehensive term describing a series of lever-action repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Full-stocked 'Musket', Carbine, Sporting model