Spencer Conversions?

[Reverend P. Babcock Chase]

Howdy Spencerians,

Are any of you boys familiar with Spencer conversions to single shot, or those restocked to Hawken or Sharps style? I think I've seen a photo of a single shot but don't know if it was for a cartridge other that standard. I wonder about the strength and dimensions of the action for "buffalo" style cartridges.

Reverend Chase

[wormey]

Spencers by design will not cycle "buffalo" style cartridges.  The design will only allow for relatively short cartridges which explains its unpopularity as a buffalo rifle.  Some were converted to sporting style rifles by Gemmer and others, but the small cartridge lliimtations limited their popularity.  They were too underpowered and limited to short ranges.  Marcot`s book illustrates a number of such conversions. Wormey

[Two Flints]

   Maybe interesting reading  

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,18006.0.html

Two Flints

[Herbert]

L. Romano makes a copy of the pro-type spencer single shot rifle chamberd for the large BP cartridges,like every thing he makes it is a work of art and priced accordinly,I have never seen one but it is another rifle on my dream list

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Then there are all those neat custom Spencer repeaters;

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,34261.msg442563/topicseen.html#msg442563