Back when I was in college in a mid size West Texas 'city', I went into an old dusty pawn and gun shop and saw this old sweetheart on the wall for a heck of a price. At the time I was a starving college kid with very little money. I was working greasemonkey jobs to pay for school and beer, and could not afford this. But I did not have a levergun at all at the time, so it followed me home. I checked the serial number shortly afterwords, and found it was built the same year I was born. Right then it earned a permanent home in my collection.
No filters and natural
A couple of clicks, and here it is
Hope you enjoy! Point out the strange thing in the pictures in the comments, and I'll... well, I'll say "Yup, that's it!"
I love the levers. Yup, but I won't comment. It's cheating if you already know.
ReplyDeleteSweet!
ReplyDeleteVery nice lever action. I only have a .357 lever gun right now, but it keeps telling me it's lonely and needs a 30-30, a 45-70, maybe a .44 to keep it company....
ReplyDeleteI should have bought the 1895 in 30-40 when I had the chance, as cheap as it was... Dang.
ReplyDeletePushed two stops goes back to the days of film, where the opening of the aperture on the camera's or enlarger's lens was measured in f-stop.
ReplyDeletePushing an exposure by two stops means you open the lens two stops for the same exposure length, resulting in an overexposed look.
Or so I remember from a darkroom class in highschool.