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I rarely see the tube loaders in the movies,
almost always the side gate style





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I rarely see the tube loaders in the movies,
almost always the side gate style


Loading from the front (Volcanic / late 1840's and Henry / 1860) as well as tube fed from the stock side (Spencer / 1860). Side loading gate didn't show up until the 1866 Yellowboy.
 
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The Ball repeating carbine had a loading port/ejection port before the Yellowboy. (slightly earlier)


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IIRC the loading gate was a King Patent? or improvement?

king being the guy that invented it



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The Winchester 1866 was the first model to use the King’s patent side loading gate. The original Henry rifles loaded from the front of the mag tube.
 
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