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The Stevens Boys Rifles were a series of single-shot takedown rifles produced by Stevens Arms from 1890 until 1943. The rifles used a falling-block action (sometimes called a tilting-block, dropping-block, or drop-block) and were chambered in a variety of rimfire calibers, such as .22 Short, .22 Long Rifle, .25 Rimfire, and .32 Rimfire. [2][4]
[notes 1] During World War II the United States Army Air Corps purchased some 15,000 Model 22-410s for use as survival guns. [1] In 1950, Stevens stopped making the 22-410, and Savage introduced the same gun as the Model 24. [1] [2] The basic .22LR over .410 gauge model weighs 7 pounds, has 24-inch barrels, and has an overall length of 41 ...
Stevens Arms is an American firearms manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864 in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The company introduced the .22 Long Rifle round and made a number of rifle , shotgun , and target pistol designs.
History and Features. Designed by Remington engineers L.R. Crittendon and E.W. Hailston, and first introduced in 1957, the model 552 features a self-loading, blowback action featuring a low profile left-side bolt handle that lends itself to a clean receiver appearance and slender profile. [3] The rifle is equipped with both open sights and a 3/ ...
Effective firing range. (150 m) (163 yd) Feed system. 10-round, 20-round detachable box magazines. Savage Model 64 series is a semi-automatic .22 LR rifle made by Savage Arms in Canada. It operates on a simple blowback action. It is marketed to beginning shooters, small-game hunters, and budget-minded target shooters.
Remington Model 24. Based on a John Browning design and manufactured from 1922 to 1935, the Remington model 24 is a semi-automatic rifle chambered in either .22 Short or .22 long rifle. It is very closely related to the Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle (the Browning SA-22), which is still in production. It is a takedown gun, meaning that the barrel ...
To differentiate from the related .25 Stevens Short it is sometimes also referred to as .25 Stevens Long. [ 2 ] Developed by J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company and Peters Cartridge Company , [ 1 ] it was developed between 1898 and 1900; catalogs suggest it was introduced in 1898, but most sources agree on 1900. [ 1 ]
Letters from Iceland is a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, published in 1937. Auden revised his sections of the book for a new edition published in 1967. Auden revised his sections of the book for a new edition published in 1967.