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The Evans Repeating Rifle was a lever-action repeating rifle designed by Warren R. Evans as a high capacity rifle. ==Overview== The Evans Repeater is often considered to be one of the oddest rifles to ever be produced in the United States. The Evans was invented by Warren R. Evans, a dentist from Thomaston, Maine. With the help of his brother George, they perfected the rifle and started the "Evans Rifle Manufacturing Company" of Mechanic Falls, Maine in 1873. Their rifles were marketed by Merwin & Hulbert. The hope was that the rifle would be issued by the United States Army, but the rifle failed the standard dust test.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Evans Repeating Rifle )〕 It was then offered as a sporting rifle. The rifle has a radial block receiver similar to the Spencer, but the rounds were fed from an Archimedean-screw magazine which formed the spine of the rifle stock and could hold up to 34 rounds. The fluted cartridge carrier made a quarter turn each time the lever was operated, feeding a new cartridge into the breech. The round was unique to the rifle and hard to find. The mechanism of the rifle was not very sturdy and did not do well with such things as dust. Nevertheless, the Evans Repeating Rifle has lately become something of a collector's item and prices are going up. The Evans Repeating Rifle Company went bankrupt in December 1879. A victim of the post war arms glut, keen competition and the time. A total of almost 15,000 Evans repeating rifle were produced between 1873 and 1879.〔 Fortunately for today’s collector a good portion of these survive. There are a number of them advertised in various antique arms publications. The Evans repeating rifle holds the distinction of being the only firearm mass-produced in the state of Maine in the 19th century. In the 20th and 21st century, many firearms were, and are, mass-produced in Maine, including those by Bushmaster, General Dynamics, Smith & Wesson and Windham Weaponry. The Evans rifle also had the greatest magazine capacity of any rifle mass-produced in the 19th Century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evans Repeating Rifle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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