Marlin 1895 Stock Question

[scoobydo]

Whats the advantages/disadvantages of a straight stock to a pistol-grip?
Is it just aesthetics or is one preferred over the other for a reason in lever guns?
Or can you easily convert it if you want?

I'm looking at the 1895GBL and the 1895G.

[Jayhawker]

Mostly aesthetics and preference. I think the pistol grip feels better in a heavy recoiling rifle while the straight grip is quicker to point. I do find the squared lever on my guide gun hits hard on my pinky finger and would like to see a rounded lever on the straight gripped models.

[NordicDave]

I have an 1895 Marlin Cowboy from 2001 and 1893 Marlin from 1895.

Ditto JayHawker's comments.

[scoobydo]

Great, thanks!
I prefer the pistol grip style, but most of the models they offer were straight grip so I didn't know if that was for a reason.

[Epaphroditus]

Mostly aesthetics and preference. I think the pistol grip feels better in a heavy recoiling rifle while the straight grip is quicker to point. I do find the squared lever on my guide gun hits hard on my pinky finger and would like to see a rounded lever on the straight gripped models.

Exactamundo.

[dfletcher]

Whats the advantages/disadvantages of a straight stock to a pistol-grip?
Is it just aesthetics or is one preferred over the other for a reason in lever guns?
Or can you easily convert it if you want?

I'm looking at the 1895GBL and the 1895G.

I have the 1895 GG and a few 1894s, also have a few lever rifles (Browning 71, Savage 99) that use a pistol grip style and I like the PG better than straight. The PG dropping down just gives me a better hold of the rifle. It's not that the straight grip is bad, it's that (for me) the curved PG is better.

So far as switching out, I haven't really considered it but it seems to me that so long as you switch out the stock and the lever to curved it would work. That's just an "eyeballing it" opinion, perhaps there's some technical reason it can't be done.

I switched out the factory lever for one of those "larger loop" rounded types. Everything your hand & knuckles rub against is rounded.

[scott fisher]

Get them both and find out for yourself

[Fjold]

The straight grip is traditional and the PG was added later for better control.

[AR22]

I am only into the Old Antique Marlin levers. But I prefer the classic straight grip. That is what John Wayne used. It is good enough for me

You can change them, but of course you need a lower trigger tang assembly and a different stock. But swapping between either style should not be a problem if you have the correct parts to do so.....