Video - Shooting the Burgess rifle

duelist1954 · March 27, 2011, 09:10 AM

Last week it was almost 80 degrees...this week it barely broke 30. I had to break out the heavy leather coat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVkwWEX5lU

KySilverado · March 27, 2011, 09:47 AM

Thanks for posting that up. Very informative. Ever since seeing that rifle pop up on Uberti's website I've had this itch..... Wanting to add a nice old school lever action to the collection and like the uniqueness of this one. May have to have one.

Hardcase · March 27, 2011, 02:03 PM

I really enjoyed reading the article about that rifle in Guns of the Old West. I've got an original Lightning in .38-40 from 1884 and since I'll never be able to afford to buy an original Burgess (and if I could, I suspect that my wife would find some unique way to make me be sorry for it), I think that one of these times I'm going to have to pick up one of those replicas.

Interestingly, the first few years of Lightning production didn't have a dust cover on the ejection port, either, but at least they had a spring loaded gate on the receiver.

Another great video!

March 27, 2011, 09:10 AM	#1
duelist1954 Senior Member Join Date: March 14, 2011 Location: Central Pennsylvania Posts: 390	Video - Shooting the Burgess rifle Last week it was almost 80 degrees...this week it barely broke 30. I had to break out the heavy leather coat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVkwWEX5lU

March 27, 2011, 09:47 AM	#2
KySilverado Senior Member Join Date: January 24, 2010 Posts: 147	Thanks for posting that up. Very informative. Ever since seeing that rifle pop up on Uberti's website I've had this itch..... Wanting to add a nice old school lever action to the collection and like the uniqueness of this one. May have to have one. __________________ "I'd much rather go to my grave never needing my gun, than go there wishing I had it." - Phil Dalmolin

March 27, 2011, 02:03 PM	#3
Hardcase Senior Member Join Date: April 14, 2009 Location: Sunny Southern Idaho Posts: 1,881	I really enjoyed reading the article about that rifle in Guns of the Old West. I've got an original Lightning in .38-40 from 1884 and since I'll never be able to afford to buy an original Burgess (and if I could, I suspect that my wife would find some unique way to make me be sorry for it), I think that one of these times I'm going to have to pick up one of those replicas. Interestingly, the first few years of Lightning production didn't have a dust cover on the ejection port, either, but at least they had a spring loaded gate on the receiver. Another great video! __________________ Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is... he's hard to stop - Gus McCrae