I have a question I hope you could help me with. I read in a local
> history that the town of
> Mechanic Falls, Maine had a gun manufacturer somewhere in the 1800s and
> that they had developed
> a repeating rifle with a spiral magazine that somehow was loaded through
> the stock I believe.
> I read they went out of business after missing an army contract. Do you
> have the name of this
> company and could you tell me any of their history. I can't find the
> rare book I had originally
> read about them in.
> Thanks very much
> Jim Caron
> Lisbon Falls, Maine
> history that the town of
> Mechanic Falls, Maine had a gun manufacturer somewhere in the 1800s and
> that they had developed
> a repeating rifle with a spiral magazine that somehow was loaded through
> the stock I believe.
> I read they went out of business after missing an army contract. Do you
> have the name of this
> company and could you tell me any of their history. I can't find the
> rare book I had originally
> read about them in.
> Thanks very much
> Jim Caron
> Lisbon Falls, Maine