I know it was poorly done as mine fell out. Probably a good thing as the later ones were dove-tailed. This rifle, being an early one, has the front sight embedded in the barrel band. At the time I wanted to riddle the target. All of that work to fire one round meant I made it count. Today, I understand it probably helped with my marksmanship greatly. Mainly long rifle though.Īs a kid, I wasn’t enthused by it being a single shot. When I had one as I kid, I did in fact shoot all three of those flavors. Given the hand-feeding, it’ll take short, long, and long rifle ammunition. Then the hammer must be pulled back - it’s not an automatic action. The lever is worked down, a single round hand-fed into the chamber, the lever raised. Today I think that the rifle being single shot was a good thing. Which, given my age, means this isn’t the gun I had when I was a kid. Dating them is difficult,but can be done within reason.
However, I’ll regress that a bit as Martini was in violation of Peabody’s patent so really it was a Peabody-Martini.įrom 1961 to 1978, roughly 500,000 are said to have been made. In spite of the “tubular magazine,” the gun did not have a magazine - it’s a single shot. At just under $20, it was perfect for the market as it resembled a Winchester, but wasn’t more than a kid could handle. Introduced in 1961, about 31,000 were sold the first year. At some point in your life, you remember the better parts of youth and get maudlin about them more than you should.
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