Thats because the cartridge was centerfire and the rifle probably had tubular
magazine.
If you used pointed bullets in a tubular mag its quite possible one of the
bullets would strike the primer
of the cartridge in front of it hard enough to set it off. That'd be as they
say "bad".
So almost all lever guns used flat bullets.
The exception I can think of offhand was the Savage model 99 which used a
rotary magazine. I've got one I inherited from my Grandfather chambered in .300
Savage.
IIRC it was reputed to be the smoothest levergun ever.
-Curt
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I am not sure whether it was a 94 or not. I remember the bullets being
flat on the end--not pointed.
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Too broad a statement I think... Witness the Savage 99 like I mentioned before.
.300 Savage is alot more like 30.06 than 30-30.
The bullet thing is alot more about the magazine than the action.
I think what you mean is that a lever gun's action favors a rimmed cartridge
like 30-30 vs a rimless like 30.06.
Thats true but I think mostly because of the way the extractors worked on older
lever guns which was partly because of metalurgy.
Most old lever guns throw the case straight up. Easy to design, and reliable,
bad if you want a scope and difficult to do with a rimless cartridge.
Newer guns side eject, more difficult to design and implement, better for
scopes and makes use of a rimless case much easier.
-Curt
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lever actions can't feed spitzer type bullets. the paradigm for lever
actions are flat and kinda stumpy up against flat and stumpy. that's
why
you see all the lever actions in 30-30 and not 30 '06.
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andrew strasfogel wrote:
> Looks like a 300SC (?) coupe (not a cabriolet).
That's a regular 300S coupe, not a 300Sc (no chrome strips on the
fenders). W188, '52-'55, I think.
> I'll give them $501 for it (pre-emptively outbidding Kaleb).
Restored examples of these cars are actually a real bargain. They're
more expensive to restore than a Gullwing but sell for much less. It'll
still take more than $501, though, at least $507. Maybe $512 if it's
really, really clean.
Tom
