An old wallhanger (pics warning)

[herb]

I missed this thread earlier.

That's one beautiful rifle, herb. What a pleasure to look at. Can you please elaborate on the spiral magazine? How exactly does it function?

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Cheers,
SS

The spiral magazine prevents the bullet tips from contacting the primer of the bullet in front of it. In a straight tubular magazine there is always the potential that during recoil the pointed tip could impact the primer of the bullet in front of it in the tube and cause an explosion.

Herb