Thread: Self isolation gun projects

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

ok curiosity has got the better of me and my pride will survivethe hit thats sure to follow asking this......
what is a .44 1/2 I know what a .44/40 is and what a .44 magnum is.....please enlighten this poor uneducated heathen.

@Micky Duck

44 1/2 It's a model not a calibre

Does cause some confusion
The last evolutionary step in Stevens rifle line up
They stopped making the 44 1/2 because it was expensive to make with a forged steel receiver etc
Stevens continued to make the model 44 for a while after that but sales continued to fall

All the returned service men from the first world war had been using bolt action rifles and that was the beginning of the end for single shot rifles.
Some target single shots held on for a while and then the great depression closed all but a few of the USA gun makers