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Vortex Nation Podcast

Ep. 274 | Lever Guns – Pure Americana

Vortex Nation Podcast

Vortex Nation Podcast

Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

It’s lever time! Mark Boardman, Jimmy Hamilton, and Ryan Muckenhirn cock their repeaters for this podcast all about lever action rifles. They cover history, cultural significance, operating mechanism differences, Hollywood film influence, and more. If you didn’t want a lever gun before tuning into this podcast, you will now…Or maybe you’ll be inspired to blow the dust off a lever-action relic that’s laid dormant in the dark recesses of your safe and give it a spin. Either way, lever guns are just plain cool!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vortex Exonation Podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting,

0:08.7

public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

0:18.3

What is up everybody?

0:19.3

Jim to my right, Mr. Ryan Muckin-Hernacross from us, gentlemen, a couple facts here.

0:24.3

We live in America, we're Americans, as far as I know.

0:29.6

And there's one firearm that I think possibly more than all the others, or I'd say a classification

0:35.7

of firearm, that represents America maybe more than all the others.

0:42.6

And that is the lever action, the lever action, Ryan, if you've just made it on American.

0:49.0

Yeah, where would you say that?

0:51.2

That's some UK stuff right there.

0:53.2

Yeah, they would say lever.

0:54.2

We say lever action around here, around these parts.

0:57.6

We have a few on the table.

0:59.9

There's definitely more than what we have here.

1:02.5

But man, Ryan, these are distinctly American, Americana, they represent the American West.

1:09.1

We used them in war.

1:12.2

I mean, in some ways they're kind of the, I mean, are these the original repeater?

1:18.6

No.

1:19.6

No, what would be considered the original repeater then?

1:21.7

It depends on how you want to define repeating.

1:25.4

People being fired more than once, then in that case, it probably goes way back for

1:29.2

the night.

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