Mojave Lever Crew - Roll Call!

[Killer Bee]

Originally Posted by elSquid

This one?

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/867679493

Crappy gun. I suggest people don’t bother to bid. Save your money for something else, like a Rossi. Did I mention that this is a lousy rifle?



— Michael

nothing like finding the deal of the century on something you just got to have only to discover a hundred others with the same feeling..

[elSquid]

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

nothing like finding the deal of the century on something you just got to have only to discover a hundred others with the same feeling..

Notice the dings in the stock? Yikes. I highly recommend that folks wait until a nicer example comes along.



— Michael

[BOBGBA]

Originally Posted by golfish

Your a baaaaaaaaaaadddd man Bob. That Browning B92 is a beauty...

I wouldn't know where to look. Is there any info on the guns they sold in their last auction

Originally Posted by Horsewright

Aggggh! Bucket gun! B92 In .357 Aggggggh! No denaro at this time. Aggggh!

Originally Posted by golfish

It sure looks like a beauty.I wonder what the original price was back in 83.

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

nothing like finding the deal of the century on something you just got to have only to discover a hundred others with the same feeling...

Originally Posted by elSquid

Notice the dings in the stock? Yikes. I highly recommend that folks wait until a nicer example comes along...Michael

Don't worry guys, it won't be the deal of the century in 13 days and I've got it on my watch list! Not that I want it.

[elSquid]

Originally Posted by BOBGBA

Don't worry guys, it won't be the deal of the century in 13 days and I've got it on my watch list! Not that I want it.

Yeah, very unlikely that the hammer price will be under $750 or so.

I’ll probably break down and toss a bid in just in case...

— Michael

[pennstater]

Originally Posted by golfish

It sure looks like a beauty.I wonder what the original price was back in 83.

There used to be a Lock, Stock and Barrel on the corner of Las Tunas and San Gabriel in San Gabriel behind The Boat and Northwoods Inn. This was back in the early 70s, I wonder if its the same owner/s

Hmm, minor hijack here. Man, when you mentioned the Boat, damn, that is a place I have not been back to in a loooong time. Killer food and beer there. I remember the cheese bread(?). Wow. Still around?

MLC

[BOBGBA]

Originally Posted by golfish

...Is there any info on the guns they sold in their last auction

Here is a list of the 12 lever guns (these were in the initial link I posted about a week and a half ago) and what they sold for (all auctions closed on Sunday 5/17/20).

Winchester 1895 Limited Series Takedown .405, 2005
Price $2,190.00 Item #:866751191

Marlin JM Marked Model 39A .22 LR 24", 1952
Price $625.00 Item #:866737087

Browning B-92 B92 .44 Mag, 1981
Price $1,525.00 Item #:866832251

Marlin Model 336ADL 336 ADL .35 Rem. 24" Blue 1955
Price $2,136.11 Item #:866742144

Browning Model 71 Carbine .348, 1987
Price $1,351.00 Item #:866742098

Marlin JM Marked Model 39A .22 LR 24" Blue, 1952
Price $600.00 Item #:866738789

Browning B-92 B92 .44 Mag, 1980
Price $1,125.00 Item #:866831975

Winchester Model 9422 94-22, 1976
Price $881.00 Item #:866628055

Winchester 94 1894 Carbine 20" .30-30, 1979
Price $782.00 Item #:866747333

Marlin JM Marked 1894CB Cowboy Limited .357 Mag .38 Spl
Price $1,525.00 Item #:866746456

Mossberg Model 464 43000 .22 LR, 2009
Price $281.00 Item #:866876464

Savage Model 99E 99-E Series A 22" .243, 1981
Price $905.00 Item #:866656536

[Spyder]

Dang. I'd go for one of their 39A's, if they would ship to a California C&R/COE. Wonder why they won't. It's perfectly legal for CA to CA shipping of C&R isn't it?

[Killer Bee]

Originally Posted by BOBGBA

Here is a list of the 12 lever guns (these were in the initial link I posted about a week and a half ago) and what they sold for (all auctions closed on Sunday 5/17/20).

Marlin JM Marked Model 39A .22 LR 24", 1952
Price $625.00 Item #:866737087

Marlin JM Marked Model 39A .22 LR 24" Blue, 1952
Price $600.00 Item #:866738789

ouch!

[nickel plate]

Originally Posted by DueceMcGurk

Good job, Nickel! That is a great 22LR. Beautiful, accurate, cheap to shoot.

Forgot to mention that it comes with an original JM stamped hammer extension! Been looking for one for my 1957 39A but so far no luck.

[W.R.Buchanan]

Apples thanks for inducting me into the MLC.

Hopefully I can contribute something meaningful to the group.

Here's my guns. 2004 1894 CB .44 Spec/Mag and 2005 1895 CB .45-70 both got extensive TLC.

Randy

[200Apples]

Mr. Buchanan, you are more than welcome, and you most certainly already have contributed to the general well-being of the MLC... first with your links to your post on Cast Bo0lits and again with your many posts on the topic of Marlin firearms. Please refer to the last page of the Marlin Quality Concerns thread? Thank you.

[200Apples]

Originally Posted by Horsewright

Aggggh! Bucket gun! B92 In .357 Aggggggh! No denaro at this time. Aggggh!

The MLC should have it's own version of Gun Fund Me.

I feel your pain, my good man.

[Killer Bee]

I've thought about converting my Barrett into a couple of antique Winchesters

[BOBGBA]

Originally Posted by Horsewright

Aggggh! Bucket gun! B92 In .357 Aggggggh! No denaro at this time. Aggggh!

It's not looking good for any of us.
After only 2 days (with 12 days+ left on the auction), it's up to $765.
I expect that I'll run out of gas way before the finish line on this one.

[jwkincal]

Hey is this a tube-mag only club? Or can my Savage 99 in .308 join?

[200Apples]

J-dub, if'n it's got a leever, you're in!

[jwkincal]

Originally Posted by 200Apples

J-dub, if'n it's got a leever, you're in!

Sweet, I knew you guys were all right!

My dream levergun is the BLR lightweight stainless breakdown in .308 or .325 WSM, but I don't have the coin just yet.

Someday...

[golfish]

Originally Posted by BOBGBA

It's not looking good for any of us.
After only 2 days (with 12 days+ left on the auction), it's up to $765.
I expect that I'll run out of gas way before the finish line on this one.

Those Brownings seem to be the hot ticket these days. I think Apples has one, maybe not in 357 tho..

The listed of sold guns from LSB above are pretty far out of my price range, even the Marlin model 39s are a little high. I wonder what those prices would been like 3-4 years ago.

Thanks for all the information and tips regarding GB, I'm sure my wife will appreciate it too
I'm not a guy that can talk on the phone for very long. I'm sure Apples and Penn will agree. I prefer to make an arse of myself in person.

[golfish]

Originally Posted by jwkincal

Hey is this a tube-mag only club? Or can my Savage 99 in .308 join?

This is the one got me in...

https://images.gunsinternational.com...C48230C160.JPG

[pennstater]

Originally Posted by golfish

This is the one got me in...

https://images.gunsinternational.com...C48230C160.JPG

Holy cow Mark! I don't believe I've seen that. What caliber? That is unique to say the least! Awesome!

MLC

[200Apples]

Those Brownings seem to be the hot ticket these days. I think Apples has one, maybe not in 357 tho.

You are correct, my good man. It's a Browning B92 in .44 Magnum, made some time around 1979 - 1980... only safety is a partial-cock position of the hammer. Oddly enough for the quality of a Miroku, I had some ejector issues and mostly fixed the problem with a hard-t0-find part from Numrich.

This is a 20" blued carbine with the steel buttplate that I'm now loading .44 Mag brass to .44-40 ballistics using a 205-gr coated LRNFP to 1100 fps.



I'd love a .357 variant but I cain't schwing the $1400 - 1500 that the one we're all watching will fetch... if it doesn't sell for even higher.

[golfish]

Originally Posted by pennstater

Holy cow Mark! I don't believe I've seen that. What caliber? That is unique to say the least! Awesome!

MLC

My grandfather bought this little 410 for me around 1971-72.....
I was pretty good at shooting Trap with it, skeet, not so well

[200Apples]

That's a neat piece, Mark.

[pennstater]

A .410! I was thinking a single shot .44-40 or .45 Colt. Damn nice. I would definitely like to get one of those. I think. Pricey?

MLC

[golfish]

Originally Posted by pennstater

A .410! I was thinking a single shot .44-40 or .45 Colt. Damn nice. I would definitely like to get one of those. I think. Pricey?

MLC

There are some crazy guys on YouTube that take a similar gun in .410 and shoot just about anything they can through it, it was a pretty good video. I think one of the guys passed away a few years back.
This is one of those guns that holds it value. It was about $60.00 in the early 70s and is probably worth about $60.00 now

[Horsewright]

Originally Posted by 200Apples

The MLC should have it's own version of Gun Fund Me.

I feel your pain, my good man.

Yep these guys made BIG holes in my checkbook! The new saddle:



And the new filly:



No B92 for me right now......at least for right now.

[RayPDA]

im A bit envious of your ranch life horsewright- must be challenging and rewarding-

Yeah, I can’t stop - I haven’t even shot the last five things I’ve bought and keep browsing online....besides the auctions bobga told me (I want those little martinis) I’m looking at other sites and local shops...I wish money grew on trees.

On a good note, I should finally be able to hit the range with all the stuff I bought over covid break...

[Spyder]

I'm going to divert attention back to me for a minute ME ME ME!!!

...This antique marlin I picked up recently... stamped 25-20 on underside of barrel, 25-20 chambers smooth and easy and I fired one. And it blew the shoulder forward quite a bit. What might it have been rechambered to at some point over the last 120 years? Still 25 caliber, and the body of the brass is the same, just shoulder pushed forward and almost like a weatherby shoulder instead of sharp or long taper.

I'll do a photo once I get home later today.

[bergmen]

Originally Posted by Spyder

I'm going to divert attention back to me for a minute ME ME ME!!!

...This antique marlin I picked up recently... stamped 25-20 on underside of barrel, 25-20 chambers smooth and easy and I fired one. And it blew the shoulder forward quite a bit. What might it have been rechambered to at some point over the last 120 years? Still 25 caliber, and the body of the brass is the same, just shoulder pushed forward and almost like a weatherby shoulder instead of sharp or long taper.

I'll do a photo once I get home later today.

Can you do a chamber cast in order to measure and examine the nature of the existing chamber? The fired shell may be good enough for that though.

Dan

[Spyder]

Yea, I can do some measurements on it later. A bit more research and I'm fairly confident it's 25-20 Improved/255 Dean, or it could be 256 Winchester Magnum. Seems that a fair number of them were recut to the 256, which is iffy because of the big pressure differences. But the one black and white photo I saw of the 25-20 Improved the shoulder looks the same.

Fire formed brass on the photo on the left.

More research tonight!

[Killer Bee]

Originally Posted by pennstater

A .410! I was thinking a single shot .44-40 or .45 Colt. Damn nice. I would definitely like to get one of those. I think. Pricey?

MLC

Originally Posted by golfish

There are some crazy guys on YouTube that take a similar gun in .410 and shoot just about anything they can through it, it was a pretty good video. I think one of the guys passed away a few years back.
This is one of those guns that holds it value. It was about $60.00 in the early 70s and is probably worth about $60.00 now

sorry to go out of context again, but I LOVE .410! got a couple of them, just no levers yet..

these are mine, the two in the middle are mossberg 183 .410 models, lower a deluxe..

bottom is a stevens 59a .410 tube feeder also a deluxe.. top is a 20ga, sorry



my 8yo already shooting grandpa's (my first shotgun experience) with 3-inchers

[200Apples]

Had a last-minute get-away to a local public shooting range this morning in San Francisquito Canyon called A Place To Shoot. Took my Marlin Texan in .30-30, a .357 Marlin 1894 and a .44 B92 along with some handloads.

I met BOBGBA out there and we made a morning of it. He got to break in his new-to-him, 2003-made .357 Marlin 1894! and it's a shooter! He was hittin' up the hill on a 100 [Edit: Correction: 125 yard plate] repeatedly with .38 +P and .357. I think he's pretty happy with it!

My .30-30 handloads using a lighter bullet (125 grain Sierra sjhp) and 30.4 grains Varget (2.2 cc Lee dipper equivalent) made consistent hits on 100 yards with virtually no recoil. It's a pretty nice plinkin' load that would get after some varmints, too.

[Revhendo]

Why do we not have a "like" button on this forum?

[RayPDA]

Rev, I agree!!

And on a related note:

Finally hit the range after a several month hiatus. A coworker had just picked up a CZ compact and even the gf wanted to go; it was also time to put some rounds thru some new additions.

1. Smith 57: only put 17 rounds of Hornady custom through it, but managed 11/12 hits on a 6” shoot n c target at 15yds.

2. .41 mag 10” off the Contender: just three rounds to test fire and it shot high, but put all three into a nice little group. This one’s definitely going to get some handloads and silhouette comps under its belt.

3. Smith 340: first five rounds were 110 .357, followed by 158gr....

My hand still hurts and it’s honestly more or a bear to shoot than a standard sized .44mag with factory 240gr loads. Even some .38 130 and some +p gold dots hurt...

It did come with some wood altamont boot grips; the rear is pretty much flat and I think the grips had much to do with discomfort.

Time for some alternative grips for this one...

And lastly and what you’ve probably been waiting for:

4. 1952 marlin 39a.

This was a supreme joy to shoot!
Butter smooth, accurate, and left me with a big smile. Golfish and the rest of you guys were right...

Now, who can recommend a nice peep sight for it?

Pics to follow...

[RayPDA]

...

[pennstater]

Ray, that 39a is a dandy! Scoreboard!

MLC

[inyocountymark]

Originally Posted by Revhendo

Why do we not have a "like" button on this forum?

cuz this forum isn't comrade Facebook or whatever the crap it is

[DueceMcGurk]

Originally Posted by Spyder

I'm going to divert attention back to me for a minute ME ME ME!!!

...This antique marlin I picked up recently... stamped 25-20 on underside of barrel, 25-20 chambers smooth and easy and I fired one. And it blew the shoulder forward quite a bit. What might it have been rechambered to at some point over the last 120 years? Still 25 caliber, and the body of the brass is the same, just shoulder pushed forward and almost like a weatherby shoulder instead of sharp or long taper.

I'll do a photo once I get home later today.

.250-3000 Savage
25-06 Rem
Both have tapered cases (I think)

[200Apples]

Originally Posted by 200Apples

Had a last-minute get-away to a local public shooting range this morning in San Francisquito Canyon called A Place To Shoot. Took my Marlin Texan in .30-30, a .357 Marlin 1894 and a .44 B92 along with some handloads.

I met BOBGBA out there and we made a morning of it. He got to break in his new-to-him, 2003-made .357 Marlin 1894! and it's a shooter! He was hittin' up the hill on a [Edit: Correction: 125 yard plate repeatedly with .38 +P and .357. I think he's pretty happy with it!

My .30-30 handloads using a lighter bullet (125 grain Sierra sjhp) and 30.4 grains Varget (2.2 cc Lee dipper equivalent) made consistent hits on 100 yards with virtually no recoil. It's a pretty nice plinkin' load that would get after some varmints, too.

I wanna go back right now! but cannot for another week at least. Gonna have a heavy honey-do list to tackle immediately after Memorial Day, and the weather is gonna be a little warm. Weatherman showed us a map of the High that will sit over the soutwest that will be blocked from moving by a Low on either side. He called it an "Omega block". We'll see. At least I can build ammo in the evenings!

[Spyder]

Originally Posted by DueceMcGurk

.250-3000 Savage
25-06 Rem
Both have tapered cases (I think)

Nah, I'm pretty confident it is 25-20 Improved. The fire formed brass looks identical, is the same exact length as regular 25-20, and those two are both WAY too long for it.

I'm almost convinced to send Hornady 3 pieces of fire formed brass and have them make me some custom dies for it, and just go with it from there. Should be easy to work up a load with.


And, because I think I forgot to put photos, here's some terrible probably too small phone pics to look at.