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History Primer 196: Spencer 1886 Shotgun Documentary | C&Rsenal (Patreon)

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History Primer 196: Spencer 1886 Shotgun Documentary | C&Rsenal

Othais and Mae delve into the story of this classic. Complete with history, function, and live fire demonstration. C&Rsenal presents its Primer series; covering the firearms of this historic conflict one at a time in honor of the centennial anniversary. Join us every other Tuesday! We are a patron funded production, so please consider supporting the continuation and growth of this content at: https://www.patreon.com/CandRsenal https://playeur.com/c/candrsenal Prints/patches/shirts from the show: https://candrsenal.com/shop/ Ballistol USA https://ballistol.com/ Ballistol Elsewhere https://www.ballistol-shop.de/index.php?language=en Additional reading: Gun Report August 1869 The Spencer Shotgun - Martin J. Keane The Gun Report Feb, March, April 1978 Spencer Slide Action Weapons - James Bates Spencer Repeating Firearms Roy M. Marcot The History of C.M. Spencer, Syl H. Roper, and Their Pump Shotgun Designs Seth Newman Ammunition data thanks to DrakeGmbH https://www.youtube.com/user/DrakeGmbH/ Animations by Bruno! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTkD8fyZRgT5icMbKeMFEbQ Snail Mail/Contact us at: https://candrsenal.com/contact/

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AC C

My best guess as to the single loading claim: you could pull the slide all the way back, "single load" by topping up the magazine tube, and slide forward. Thus the magazine always remains full in reserve and you load one each shot.

SMK

Given the age of the gun, I'm assuming those were 2 1/2-inch (not 2 3/4) shells loaded to the low end of the pressure scale.

Charles Sears

It appears from the animation that if the magazine is empty and the slide is fully to the rear, one could manually push the breach block all the way down as the breach block is only held up by a spring, and not any part of the action bar stud. This would expose the chamber for single loading. Once a fresh cartridge is in the chamber the breech block should rise again to full height under that spring that ejected the previous fire cartridge. The right side extractor would just skip over the cartridge rim and allow the slide to go fully forward to center the firing pin on the primer.