{"id":6826,"date":"2012-09-27T04:06:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/book-review-volcanic-firearms-predecessor-to-the-winchester-rifle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:33:36","slug":"book-review-volcanic-firearms-predecessor-to-the-winchester-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/book-review-volcanic-firearms-predecessor-to-the-winchester-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Volcanic Firearms &#8211; Predecessor to the Winchester Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xWaO7GXr1W0?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Volcanic repeating pistol was the first direct step along the development path of the lever-action rifle that became an icon of the American West. Introduced before the advent of modern brass-cased cartridges, the Volcanic was notable for both its repeating action and the self-contained ammunition that made it practical. Volcanic pistols (and rifles) are quite rare today, but they are a pretty cool corner of firearms history. Well, Edmund Lewis and Stephen Rutter wrote a gorgeous book on the history of the Volcanic, with more than 340 glossy color photos of some really impressive specimens:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/book-review-volcanic-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/book-review-volcanic-firearms\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Volcanic repeating pistol was the first direct step along the development path of the lever-action rifle that became an icon of the American West. Introduced before the advent of modern brass-cased cartridges, the Volcanic was notable for both its repeating action and the self-contained ammunition that made it practical. Volcanic pistols (and rifles) are&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/book-review-volcanic-firearms-predecessor-to-the-winchester-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Volcanic Firearms &#8211; Predecessor to the Winchester Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7528,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/7528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}