{"id":8585,"date":"2013-10-06T22:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T22:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/06\/evans-repeating-rifle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:29:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:29:46","slug":"evans-repeating-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/06\/evans-repeating-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Evans Repeating Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QM6Rg91WT3E?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I had the opportunity to stop by the display day at Rock Island Auctions prior to their recent Premier Auction, and had the chance to get my hands on a bunch of very cool guns. I took the video camera, of course, and today I have the first of a bunch of videos taken that day. The circumstances didn&#8217;t allow me to disassemble or shoot things &#8211; RIA has a responsibility to prevent anything from being damaged prior to the auction &#8211; but we can still see some very neat things that don&#8217;t turn up at the local gun shop every day.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today we&#8217;re looking at an Evans repeating rifle. These were manufactured in Maine between 1873 and 1879, in three distinct models (I did goof in the video and called this particular one a transitional model, when it&#8217;s actually a new model). The way to distinguish the variants is:<\/p>\n<p>Old Model: No wooden lower buttstock<br \/>\nTransitional Model: Two-piece wooden buttstock, but no dust cover on the ejection port<br \/>\nNew Model: Two-piece wooden buttstock and ejection port cover that moves with the operating lever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to stop by the display day at Rock Island Auctions prior to their recent Premier Auction, and had the chance to get my hands on a bunch of very cool guns. I took the video camera, of course, and today I have the first of a bunch of videos taken that&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/06\/evans-repeating-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evans Repeating Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8586,"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":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585","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=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15837,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions\/15837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}