If you already have a Marlin 30-30.....
- Thread starter Jacket67
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I would love one of these:
http://www.winchesterguns.com/produ...ent-products/model-1892-trapper-takedown.html
Cheapshooter
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Purpose would dictate the choice.
Practice, plinking, informal target, and small game hunting. Henry I 22long rifle.
Big game hunting Marlin 1895 45-70.
Just for grins, and to feel like a cowboy, Henry Big Boy 45 Colt.
Design nostalgia, Savage 99 in 250-3000 Savage (250 Savage). Or 300 Savage.
And then if your desire for "another lever gun" is leading to a collection,
Winchester Model 88 in 308 Winchester
"The bolt action rifle with a lever"
Practice, plinking, informal target, and small game hunting. Henry I 22long rifle.
Big game hunting Marlin 1895 45-70.
Just for grins, and to feel like a cowboy, Henry Big Boy 45 Colt.
Design nostalgia, Savage 99 in 250-3000 Savage (250 Savage). Or 300 Savage.
And then if your desire for "another lever gun" is leading to a collection,
Winchester Model 88 in 308 Winchester
"The bolt action rifle with a lever"
There are some who say, in a current thread that lever guns are not useful for hunting anymore. I wonder how that can be said. Probably more deer have been taken with the Marlin 336 in 30-30 than any other single gun and certainly between the Marlin 336/1894 and the Winchester, what else would have taken more game that those three?
The 30-30 is a fine cartridge and certainly accurate and useful out beyond 200 yards or more and for walk up hunting and compared to a bolt gun in brush and timber, really? Point being that the OP can purchase any lever gun that suits his eventual fancy and have a nice and useful and fun gun to own and be proud of whatever he gets, even if it is a 22LR.
3C
The 30-30 is a fine cartridge and certainly accurate and useful out beyond 200 yards or more and for walk up hunting and compared to a bolt gun in brush and timber, really? Point being that the OP can purchase any lever gun that suits his eventual fancy and have a nice and useful and fun gun to own and be proud of whatever he gets, even if it is a 22LR.
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Cheapshooter
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No, there are three more.
250-3000 Savage
303 Savage
300 Savage
All originally designed for the Savage Model 99 lever action.
Cheapshooter
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Yes, forgot about that "true" lever gun cartridge.
Pathfinder45
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What is a, "true levergun cartridge"? If that is taken to mean only those calibers that were originally introduced in a lever action rifle, then there are At least 25 cartridges introduced by Winchester alone, specifically for various lever-action rifles.
Then there have been several Marlin cartridges, some of which were simply variants from the WCF line-up, while others are more original.
There were at least four different Savage cartridges.
Did somebody say, "Spencer."?
The 44 Henry rimfire was among the first.
There are more than I thought...
Then there have been several Marlin cartridges, some of which were simply variants from the WCF line-up, while others are more original.
There were at least four different Savage cartridges.
Did somebody say, "Spencer."?
The 44 Henry rimfire was among the first.
There are more than I thought...
Yep, I got it confused with the Marlin 1894M...
senior moments...argh!