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#10MinuteTalk | The Smith & Wesson 1854 — Born from Lever Action Legacy

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Lever-action rifles may be a new category for Smith & Wesson, but the company’s connection to lever guns goes back to the very origins of the platform itself. In this episode, Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn explore the history behind the legendary action and take a closer look at the classic styling and modern performance of the Smith & Wesson 1854.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, joined by my good friend Ryan Muckinhern.

0:07.6

And also, well, we're always joined by MC Ryan.

0:10.6

Always.

0:11.1

But I want to call out a couple things here.

0:13.4

Yeah.

0:14.1

Number one, he does an absolutely phenomenal job making all of these things work.

0:18.2

But we come in today and we're surprised by some new lighting that I can only assume he's

0:23.7

experimenting with, but it looks great.

0:27.5

It does.

0:28.3

So I walked in and I was like, holy wowsers, you know, and asked questions about this and

0:34.2

how he came to come up with all this.

0:38.2

And then you walked in, and the first thing you mentioned was the lighting.

0:41.5

It was noticeable.

0:42.2

It's like subtle, but very noticeable.

0:44.7

We've got a couple of firearms on the table today.

0:46.8

That is going to be the topic, or that are the topic of today's discussion.

0:52.0

And I'm just going to say they're perfectly lit.

0:54.3

That am the topic is what you're trying to say. The rifles am the topic? Yeah. I don't think that's what I was trying to say. I'm goofing around, Mark. I'm sorry. If anybody's curious, if you're not watching on YouTube, or if you're watching on YouTube, and you say, well, what the heck are those things? These are the, I'd say,

1:11.4

fairly new, you know, 2024-ish, Smith and Wesson, 1854 lever guns. Yeah, I've never touched one.

1:21.8

My hands have still never touched a Smith 1854. Pre-podcast, you said that. I said, pick it up,

1:27.2

you said, no, I'm going to wait.

1:28.8

Yeah. These things are pretty cool. They kind of are part of that, uh, the, you know,

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