![]() Savage’ vice ‘North & Savage’? If so it would be much rarer! If not, then I’m not sure what you have as in 1864 the company (which had changed names a couple times) foundered for several reasons including poor management, lack of government contracts and lack of quality control with it’s inspectors. ![]() Here’s a pretty good video which shows some history as well as basic operation:Īny chance your barrel is stamped 1856 vice 1865 (typo above) and shows ‘E. 60 / 18 gauge for use with small buckshot or ‘buck and ball’). 44 caliber rifles, and the rest being shotguns (appx. An estimated 600 were made during that time with approximately 450 being. This design was used on their revolving rifle which was stamped “North & Savage”. It also restricted the escape of flame and hot gasses from the opening between the chamber and barrel which could lead to lateral fire of the adjacent chamber (chain-fire). This design was intended to restrict the loss of gas and pressure from the usual gap between the barrel and cylinder resulting in more effective propulsion of the bullet. Skinner patented a sliding crotch (wedge) and rotating breech (cylinder assembly) designed to force the breech forward so the lip of the individual cylinder chambers would seat into the countersunk opening at the rear of the barrel creating a seal (US Patent No. Wasn’t aware it was a gas-sealer as well… what, 30 years before the Nagant? If so, that would have cut down on rapid fire. I read somewhere – think it was in one of Bernard Cornwell’s “Starbuck Chronicles” Civil War novels – a warning that the user needed to disengage his middle finger from the lever before firing the revolver, as the recoil was a finger-breaker. I wonder what happened to that incredible collection? There were dozens of equally odd vintage motorcycles in Lexan cubes outside. Apparently the video was made not long before White’s closed. I recall that he was particularly “what the heck is that?” non-pulsed by the Savage Civil War pistol. One of the very few Internet references I’ve been able to find to White’s Union 76 truck stop in Virginia – the best public-display collection of firearms I’ve ever seen in a truck stop, if not anywhere – was a YouTube narrated by a tour guide who obviously had no idea what most of the thousands of weapons in the cases on the walls were. There was a North & Skinner at the September 2013 Rock Island Auction, and I took some video footage of it: How well this worked, I have not been able to determine – perhaps one of these days I will find an example of the gun that I can shoot and find out. It used recessed chambers and a locking wedge that would push the cylinder forward to achieve a semblance of a gas seal (a bit like the 1895 Nagant revolver). ![]() The North & Skinner design also included several features intended to protect the shooter from the cylinder gap blast (which was a significant problem with all such revolving rifle designs). North & Skinner revolving rifle with action open – note locking wedge at rear of cylinder (image from ) Unlike many revolving rifle designs, the North & Skinner functioned as a lever action, with the trigger guard serving as lever. About 600 of these guns were made in total, with roughly 20% being. ![]() ![]() Its design was patented in 1852 by Henry North and Chauncy Skinner ( US Patent #8982), and the guns were manufactured from 1856 to 1859 by the Savage & North company (which was Henry North and Edward Savage – not the Arthur Savage who developed the Savage 99). The North & Skinner was an early 6-shot percussion-fired revolving rifle design. ![]()
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