A Few Doubles

[Bruce Day]

Finally we push the lever all the way right and the bolt swings all the way left and fully disengages from the slot, now allowing the barrels to be opened.

It was this swinging movement that I mistermed rotary. I suppose there is a difference between swinging into a slot and rotating into a slot.

I trust this is clearer now. This Lefever was made in Syracuse in 1900 and the catalog from where you took the diagram would be of this gun


See the small screw head at left toward the end of the top tang and by my hand. That is interesting. That is a safety selector . you screw that one way or the other and select either manual safety or automatic safety. Neat.