Lever Love?

[bergmen]

I see the appeal. Nostalgia, fun to shoot(with pistol rounds. They are nice to look at with the nice wood and blued steel(all my hunting guns are too) and from all the good responses I got, sounds like all the guys who love their levers are some really good folk. I probably need to get out of my rut of shooting at the range mostly for function of practice of hunting field positions (with only my hunting rifles) and shoot some different guns just to do something new.

Now yer talkin'...

Have fun!

Dan

[870classic]

...I ask why the Lever Love? ... So CALGUN Lever Lovers am I missing something? What is your reason for Lever Love? ...

The main reason I shoot a lever gun is for the caliber.
I shoot the 45-70 Government and there are very little in the way of firearm actions that are currently manufactured that will chamber the 45-70 in a strong action for hotter loads and have quick follow up shots at the ready.

Examples of modern lever actions for the 45-70 Government:
Sharps Rifles, = Lever gun. (Yes, it is a falling black, but also a lever action)
Ruger number 1 = Lever gun (Same as above).
Marlin 1895 = Lever gun

As far as why people like them ... It could be nostalgia (westerns) or the first center fire rifle we graduated to from a rimfire, or we learned to shoot using a lever action, or it was a family heirloom, it could be that they are politically correct (for the moment) and not as threatening in appearance as an AR/AK (black rifle, but just as effective), etc.

Lever guns, are just another way of chambering a round into the barrel. If you are happy with a bolt action, pump action, semiauto, etc. you are not missing out on anything. Use what you like. If you didn't like your buddies 38-40, then that's okay. You don't have to like lever actions. But congratulations on trying the lever action and asking the question.

Best regards,
870classic.

[Darto]

The wonderful Henry 45/70=Lever gun. And at least one Henry 45/70 now with side loading gate.

[hambam105]

While some of you were too busy watching corny old television westerns, our ever popular Gun
Magazine writers de-emphasized lever gun stories.

So the younger game animals never 'Got-The-Word' so to speak and didn't know they were supposed
to die immediately after getting plastered with a obsolete 30-30 Winchester.

[GeeBee49]

I was eight years old when I started watching TV westerns. They weren't corny and they weren't old. A new episode came on every week.

[hambam105]

When you are 8 years old everything is new.

T.V. Westerns went bad when they went to color, eliminated singing cowboys and their guitars, and started
riding nameless horses that never did any tricks. However, we at Hambam Media have decided to make exceptions
for Rawhide, Bonanza, High Chaparral and Kung Fu starring David Grasshopper Carradine.

[Kokopelli]

When you are 8 years old everything is new.

T.V. Westerns went bad when they went to color, eliminated singing cowboys and their guitars, and started
riding nameless horses that never did any tricks. However, we at Hambam Media have decided to make exceptions
for Rawhide, Bonanza, High Chaparral and Kung Fu starring David Grasshopper Carradine.

[pennstater]

When you are 8 years old everything is new.

T.V. Westerns went bad when they went to color, eliminated singing cowboys and their guitars, and started
riding nameless horses that never did any tricks. However, we at Hambam Media have decided to make exceptions
for Rawhide, Bonanza, High Chaparral and Kung Fu starring David Grasshopper Carradine.

You mean you didn't like "Have gun, will travel"? Ohhh, the crime!

MLC

[200Apples]

Have Gun, Will Travel and the first 12 years of GUNSMOKE are hands down the best television westerns of that period for my tastes.

I never really watched GUNSMOKE as a kid in the 1960s... it was always Bonanza or something. Great show in it's own right. Watched a lot! of The Rifleman.

So I'm catching up on the friendly sarcasm between Matt, Chester, Kitty n Doc now. Then along came that Haggins boy.

Matt Dillon's character was very well-written.

[3006]

Lever gun are easy to carry something about the balance feel right .

[Epaphroditus]

The Original Assault Rifle. A complete game changer.

[RNE228]

Say what?

My Savage 99 can reload while shouldered and firing. And... It has a handy counter on the side of the receiver to to tell you how many rounds are in the rotary magazine.

Side gates are so 1894. And outdated by 1899

And yes, lever guns are a ton of fun to shoot

A side gate lever is the only gun you can reload while keeping it shouldered and firing. You can top off the magazing between trigger pulls.

Did I mention how fun they are?

[aklon]

I was eight years old when I started watching TV westerns. They weren't corny and they weren't old. A new episode came on every week.

This is why. For a lot of us, our first 'real' rifle was a lever action; we bought it without too much thought because this is what Americans buy. And after just one season of TV westerns, who didn't want a Colt .45?

[GeeBee49]

This is why. For a lot of us, our first 'real' rifle was a lever action; we bought it without too much thought because this is what Americans buy. And after just one season of TV westerns, who didn't want a Colt .45?

I was eight or nine when I got my first BB gun, a Daisy Red Ryder lever action. In the late fifties nothing else would do.

[rromeo]

Anybody else notice on The Big Valley that they used a lot of Marlin 336s?

I am an unashamed Marlin fanatic.