NEW to Lever-Actions

[newbie1234]

Did someone say lever guns? Yea - I'm addicted...

Where is Golden Boy and Big Boy ? Just Kidding, that a very nice collection.
It seems like you are real cowboy. Show us your SAA revolvers.

[TripleThreat]

Ahh lever rifles, the AR's of the 1890's...

[RANGER295]

I went over to a business associates house the other day to drop something off. He said, "You'r into guns let me show you something." He took me down a hallway to a vault door built into the wall. It was a massive door with hinges about 8" around. The room was made of double thick filled and reinforced cinderblock with a 12" thick concrete roof. The room was about the size of my master bedroom.

Anyway back to lever actions... among hundreds of other guns, there was one row of racking probably 15 feet long, double high, almost if not completely full, with about two inch spacing of nothing but lever actions. 75% or more were C&R with at least half of them being over 100 years old. He had original Marlins that still had some color on them even a Marlin 1881 which I have never even seen before. Most of the rifles were Winchesters though. I asked if I could take a picture but he said he would prefer I not. He had one rack that had around 20 10/22's on it. There were drawers and drawers of handguns ranging from black powder (original and repo) and modern. I thought I had a good collection but walked away feeling like an infant.

[nickel plate]

Did someone say lever guns? Yea - I'm addicted...

I'm not good at all when it comes to identifying lever rifles in a photograph such as yours but I can see at least two Marlins in your photo-#3 and 4 from the left.
How do I know? Bullseye!
Very nice collection.

[RNE228]

My favorites are Marlin 94C 357 JM, and Savage 99.

For pistol cartridge, the Marlin is a ton of fun. 38sp are fum and cheap to shoot.

For rifle cartridges, Savage 99 is hands down winner. Uses pointy bullets with no problem, although discontinued is easily available, handles nice, mounts a scope nice...

[toonmeister]

The 336 (30-30) is more or less done. (for now)

I have a nylon/velcro butt cover/cheeck pad, and I installed the scope today. Just have to take it to the range and zero it.

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[Calif Hunter]

I love all my guns, but levers are fun. With my aging eyes, it is getting harder all the time to shoot them with iron sights, though. I have 2 Win 94s in .30-30, (a 1949 and a 1975 issue), a JM Marlin Guide Gun in .45-70, a couple of Henry's in .22 LR, a Rossi 92 without safety in .45 Colt, a Rossi 92 with safety in .44 mag and a Win 9422M. I'd like to get a Savage 99 and a Marlin in .35 Rem with the half mag tube....

The Rossi .44 is fun to shoot with 44 special level loads.

[toonmeister]

Now that the 336 is all set, I have to get to work getting a scope onto my Henry.

[nickel plate]

That leather looks nice, good work! I really like that bear paw!

I just put a new Marlington 336 .30-30 in jail yesterday, and am looking forward to getting it to the range!

Matt,
The leather work is top notch but please replace that synthetic braided shoe string with a nice leather lace.

[Tom-ADC]

Not a great photo but a 1895 SS Marlin pre-remington made in 1996 45-70.
Also have a 1894 in 44 mag I bought in 1979.

[smle-man]

Ahh lever rifles, the AR's of the 1890's...

You mean the 1860s! The original Henry was the rifle the Confederates called the rifle you could load on Sunday and shoot all week. Even the Spencer delivered a volume of fire that musket armed opponents couldn't deal with.

[smle-man]

The third rifle I owned, bought from K-Mart in the early 70s, was a Marlin 336 .30-30. I've owned a lot of lever rifles since then from an original Winchester 73 .44-40 to my latest a Winchester model 95.

Being left handed the lever action is well suited to us south-paws but I also enjoy the participation in working the lever compared to a semi auto action.

Don't think the angel of death will pass by lever gun owners in the ongoing gun ban frenzy. Over in England there is talk that lever guns (or under levers as they are referred to) may be up next on the verboten list. Rate of fire is too fast or something. It could happen here so never relax your vigilance.

Here's my current lever guns:






Winchester model 95 .30-06 obtained from a Calgunner recently (thanks Arthur!). This is my 3rd model 95 over the years. The first was a Browning 95 rifle in .30-40 Krag from the mid 80s. Then I obtained an original Winchester 95 SRC in .30-06 with very generous headspace which seems to happen to the .30-06 versions from back then that were shot a lot. Both of those are gone. This one will stay with me. It holds the 10 ring easily with LC M2 ball at 100 yards and that is saying a lot considering the quality of M2 ball.




Marlin 336T in .30-30, a carbine from the early 80s. A fun little carbine but it has a good smack to the shoulder when it is fired! Got this some years ago from Calguns. There are so many great bargains to be found here.




Rossi 92 .357 that I've owned since about 1981. Great fun little barker. I swapped the original lever for the 'Rifleman' lever from a Ranch hand. I find the large loop to be pretty darn comfortable when doing rapid fire against maurading steel plates. I'll never equal Lucas McCain's volume of fire though!





Rossi 92 .44 magnum, another Calgun find. Got it at a great price and enjoy the heck out of it, especially shooting lead semi wadcutters launched by Trailboss powder. Accurate and low recoil

[CGT80]

I only have a single lever action, my grandfather's win 94 30-30 built in 1973. I cast my own for it. Today was our local lever action silhouette match. It was only a small turn out and two of us had to shoot the full 40 round match straight through without resetting. I skipped the practice before the match and said I wanted to save my luck for the match. Well, my 30 out of 40 was the best score. I'll take it!

[Danodog]

Awesome!

CalGunner O'Malley supplied me with one of these speed loaders as part of the deal. Looking forward to trying it out at the range this weekend.

If anyone has used these speed loaders, feel free to share your experience!

[toonmeister]