Thanks for the history lesson and the shout out to the Cody Firearms Museum! It was really cool to see those early precursors, designed by S&W employee, Mr. Henry. What an awesome heritage! And a pretty cool lever gun, too! I really like the factory standard peep sight, and I prefer a pistol grip to the straight grip found on the new Marlin 1894s. Now, if only it came in .45 Colt! 😃😃😃
I can't wait to pick one up in the newer 45 Colt! Great video Julie 😎 I did get to tour the S&W factory years ago, it was awesome!! I even was able to go shooting at the S&W Academy/range. Rented a few gun to target practice with, a 686 and a S&W 99 in 45 ACP (it rocked)🎸
Got one of these myself. They are a little hard to find at the moment. And if you do find them a lot of dealers are charging way over msr. Last time I checked buds was selling them after tax it was like 1600. I got lucky found one less than msrp. It's a well built little rifle
That trigger action concerns me more than anything else I've seen about this gun. The way it's loosely flopping around when cycling the action and the amount of creep prior to hitting the wall makes me question how well assembled the whole piece really is? I know lever guns aren't considered tack drivers, but at least give us a crisper trigger for that price point.
This gun has some intriguing features. Nice punch being the .44 Magnum. I imagine they will come out with more calibers down the road. I would like to see a couple more mass produced versions with blued receiver/barrel combos in both synthetic and wood furniture. I’d buy this rifle.
Even though it's a silly thing to fixate on, I love the Mlok slots on an otherwise conventional-appearing forend. You dont need a big rail system. I'd never put a DBAL on this, but absolutely would mount a light. Classic and modern? You CAN do both.
Makes the Rossi R95 even more a bargain, just wish Rossi will bring the R95 in pistol rounds. In Australia the Smith & Wesson is $1000 more AUD than the Rossi 30-30
I heard a S&W rep at the SHOT show call the 1854 44 mag a “throw back to our heritage”. I’m a 10mm guy since about 1990. Super excited with the S&W M&P 10… bought two. Both jammed regularly, (failure to feed), The magazine fell out the bottom while shooting in both, and on one the supplied plastic optics plate cracked, the screws sheered, and my RMR flew backwards over my head. I sent them back to S&W twice. Failure to feeds continued after receiving them back each time. Called a third time and was transferred to a girl who sounded quite young. She interrupted me, talked over me, and told me that my request that S&W exchange my pistols wasn’t going to happen since the issues were fixable. And she said that I “should shoot better quality ammo”. I guess higher quality than the Federal, Fiocci, Mag Tech, Sig, and Hornady that I had written them about failing, and that I spent a fortune on testing their guns. I filed a BBB complaint but through mediation had no confidence in S&W’s offer to “service my guns”, (for the third time). I wonder if engineering a defective product and then having an arrogant and entitled sounding young lady dismiss your victims is also a throwback to S&W’s heritage; or perhaps rather, they are turning over in their graves.
I was kind of hoping you will be making a meat loaf with all the dinosaur meat. Fred and Wilma Flintstone said they will send a RSVP. Same with Barney and Betty Rubble. They want to know if they need a baby sitter for Pebbles and Bam Bam. Or bring with.
Nothing wrong getting into the lever action game, but quite frankly nothing sets this apart from it's competitors and the price is a bit too much for what it offers. Lower the price and offer 10mm and then I think Smith will get some real attention in the lever action market.
