These are gems. Thanks guys.
These are gems. Thanks guys.
Yup, strolling through the archives can bring a lot of pleasure. Making people use the archives -- not so much fun.
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Daryl Noonan
NSSA # 14002
12th Regiment US Regular Infantry
"You see in this world there are two types of people my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig!!"
If you didn't find it? Here you may find the answers your looking for.
Armisport Spencer Rifle (n-ssa.net)
Rick G. Cameron Jr.
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Daryl Noonan
NSSA # 14002
12th Regiment US Regular Infantry
"You see in this world there are two types of people my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig!!"
OK, after too many consecutive days of too much snow.....I'm back!
The ArmiSport Chiappa Spencer Rifle is a sad story. After they discovered that even the reenacting community wouldn't buy their Rifle with a Carbine receiver, they updated it to the configuration you see today.Unfortunately, the dimensions are too far out of our liberal +/- Allowable Tolerances to be given a N-SSA Production Approval status. I went to great lengths to work with the importer, who is Taylor's & Co., to get them to understand what had to be corrected in order to make the Rifle correct and approvable for use in the N-SSA. I made an appointment to meet with Taylor's personally. At that time I gave them a complete write-up, and even showed them an original Spencer Rifle. I had them compare it to an ArmiSport example so they could visually see the differences I had written about. To say they were barely interested would describe how they received my efforts. ArmiSport was flat out not interested in correcting anything because they said they had no problem selling them to the much larger re-enacting market.
Now you know why the ArmiSport Spencer Rifle is not, and never will be, on the N-SSA's Approved arms List.
John Holland
N-SSA Small Arms Staff Officer
Small Arms Committee Chairman
Daryl Noonan
NSSA # 14002
12th Regiment US Regular Infantry
"You see in this world there are two types of people my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig!!"
Yeah Hoot has his Spencer so ginned up he stands on the line and shoots it repeater mode right alongside the Henry guys. Gives me the heebie-jeebies. I still shoot individuals only. None of my remarkable cartridge loads will feed out of the magazine without some WWF level wrestling. But it's a really accurate bugger.
Glad to hear you are ok, John:
Thanks for the Armisport/Chiappa/Taylor's Spencer rifle information.
Please stay safe.
Kevin Tinny
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