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GarandMarine:
The system the 81 uses to load rounds is awesome and weird. I'll take some pics with some snap caps while I still have the stock off once I get the mag tube back on.
Noxx:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 10 Oct 2014, 07:23 ---The system the 81 uses to load rounds is awesome and weird. I'll take some pics with some snap caps while I still have the stock off once I get the mag tube back on.
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I may have to get one. I am not a Marlin fan, but I do collect american youth rifles from 1890-1965.
Speaking of which, I have a project you'd love to see, it's in a friends garage atm, I'll have to retrieve it. A single shot 22 short boys rifle, made so cheaply as a giveaway item, the it actually has a rolled steel barrel LOL.
GarandMarine:
....I have to see that.
Also not sure the 81 counts as a boy's rifle. Stock is sized for an adult.
Noxx:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 10 Oct 2014, 08:30 ---....I have to see that.
Also not sure the 81 counts as a boy's rifle. Stock is sized for an adult.
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It doesn't. It postdates (or hugs the end of) the primary era for such rifles, but the defining characteristic of a bolt action "boys" or "youth" model from midcentury America, is usually a separate cocking mechanism independent of the bolt, similar to the Win 67 and similar Sears / HR rifles. These models not cocked by bolt action were considered "double safety" and "training" rifles, and were often adopted by the BSA.
Attached is a photo of the straight pull cocking knob on a 67, that must be operated independently of bolt action. Internet sourced photo, but I have a couple of these rifles, and they demonstrate the ethos of the rural youth firearm, redundant safeties, inexpensive to manufacture, and simple reliable mechanisms.
Noxx:
Ah, here is a link to an article on the Hamilton rifles. The model 27 shown is identical to my own. The low quality of the hardware is astounding, these were giveaway rifles for sales incentives, etc. They do reflect however, a very specific time and place in american social history.
http://www.nrvoutdoors.com/HAMILTON/HAMILTON%2027.htm
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