Jonathan Brownings slide gun had to be loaded separately from the rifle, since there are no ram rod attacthed to this, for it's day, advanced, but simple functioning rifle. Special order slide's could be made to hold 25 rounds. Imagine the recoil, if there ever was a chain firing :mrgreen:
The Mormon and polygamist Jonathan Browning,(1805-79) had tree wife's and sired 21 children, and one of was John Moses, with his second wife. Jonathan fathered his lasts child when his was 70.
This is an advertisement by Jonathan Browning in the "Frontier Guardian", Kanesville, Iowa, September 19, 1849:
"The subcriber is prepared to manufacture, to order, improved Fire-arms, viz: revolving rifles and pistols; also slide guns, from 5 to 25 shooters. All on an improved plan, and he thinks not equalled this far east.(Farther west they might be.) The emigrating and sporting community are invited to call and examine Browning's improved fire-arms before purchasing elsewhere. Shop eight miles south of Kanesville on Musquito Creek, half a mile south of Trading Point."