Who'd buy this rifle?

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Nightcrawler

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LEVER RIFLE

In the spirit of the Winchester 1895...


-Lever Action Rifle, smooth action and solid lockup

-Top feeding, with fixed box magazine. (Probably would be five or six rounds)

-.308 Winchester, .243 Winchester, and 7mm-08 Reminton offered in initial versions.

-.223 Remintgon varminter version, with eight round magazine.

-Adjustable rifle sights, Creedmore sights available.

-17" barrel carbine version, 20" standard version, and 24" long rifle version.

-Fine walnut stock and foreend, with optional sling swivel studs.

-Optional crossbolt hammer-block saftey.

-Drilled and tapped for scope mounts.

-Rounds eject at an angle, to allow scoping.

PRICE: I don't see why it'd cost any more than any other high-grade lever rifle. Same price range as a Marlin 1895G.


So. Who'd like one of these in their gun safe?
 
huh?

How's it like an 1895G? The 1895G fires a low velocity, big bore round (.45-70) and uses a tube magazine that prevents use of non-rimmed and/or pointed bullets.

As for the BLR. The only thing I have against it is the funky detachable box magazine. Since the magazines cost about fifty bucks a piece, you can't exactly stock up for quick/easy reloads.

The gun that this design is most similar to, actually, is the out of production Winchester 95. Teddy Roosevelt used one chambered in .405 Win, I believe, on several African safaris.
 
Missed the part on the box magazine. However, the other features are very similiar to current lever actions.
 
well, yeah

The whole idea is a lever rifle in a more all-around useful cartridge, like .308, and that can use spitzer type bullets without worrying about it blowing up in your hands. Since it wouldn't have the magazine tube under the barrel, it wouldn't have barrel bands, and would probably be more accurate than a typical lever rifle too.
 
223 version sounds interesting. Where do we sign up?
 
hehe..

Huh? Oh! Oh...uh...send me $500 in CASH and the weapon will be delivered to your local FFL within six weeks. Uh, really. Honest.

(gasses up car for trip to mexico)

LOL :D
 
Savage 99 series with rotary magazine (.243 Win.,.250-3000, .308 Win., .358 Win.). Still one of the best lever guns around.
 
Concur about the rotary magazine Savage 99. It was a great gun and I almost had my hands on one (collateral for a loan which I half hoped the fellow would default on). It's a much better gun than the clip fed 99.
 
I think I'd like a Savage 99, from what I've read of it. Of course, I'd also like a Browning Auto 5, so it seems my tastes are somewhat...obsolete...
 
Sent! You'd be surprised what it costs to send 50,000 pennies through Priority Mail.
 
Nightcrawler,

It took me six years to find my Savage 99. Last production run .308, rotary mag, cartridge counter, lever safty. I have added a tang sight. Fortunetly My dad traded me his Belgian A-5 light 12 for a Belgian A-5 light twenty last year. I might not have the fastest or the fanciest. I definatly have a couple of class acts.

Luck in your search...There are still some cool guns out there.

Cheers,

ts
 
Just as an addendum, the 99A (rotary mag tang safety) was one of my most accurate lever rifles. I think I bought it about 1971. Chambered in 250 Savage it was a sweet rifle. Makes my eyes water to think of all the fine rifles that have gone through my hands over the last 30 years. I wish I still had my.....oh well, too many to list.
 
I have a Browning BLR in .308 WIN sitting in the safe right now. It is easy to stock up on additional magazines unless you are afraid of spending the money. The box magazine offers the advantage of quick ammunition changes, when warranted, and is faster and safer to unload than a fixed, or rotary, magazine rifle.
 
I'm not sure why you'd object to a detachable magazine as in the BLR. An extra fifty bucks for a spare is cheap insurance against loss, and you just might be happy to have that quick reload one day. The BLR will rival most bolt actions for accuracy and comes in calibers from varmint-sized up to moose-busters.

The Savage 99 is also an excellent rifle with all of the attributes you want. Savage quality has varied from excellent to piss-poor over the years so I'd want to take a good look at the rifle before purchase, but a good 99 is a good rifle indeed.
 
My beef with detachable box mags.

Several things.

A) The extra magazines are uniformally expensive, for sporting rifles. $50 for a piece of steel may not seem like much to some of you, but I'm a college student. Sometimes $50 is all I have for food money for over a week.

B) On a lever rifle, it just...I dunno, feels wrong. A lever rifle is a very classic, traditional design. A detachable mag just seems out of place, but that's just my weird opinion.

C) It holds four freaking rounds. FOUR ROUNDS! And because of the way the Browning's magazines are designed, a larger one would be difficult to make, I think, at least, no one makes one. 4+1 may be fine for a hunter. But I don't hunt. I shoot for fun and reloading every four shots is a pain in the butt. Especially in the semiautos. A semiauto that takes such a magazine, but doesn't have one available that holds more than five rounds just irritates me. At least with the Remington 7400 and 7600 they make aftermarket 10 round magazines. It'd be impossible to make a higher capacity mag for, say, the BAR, because instead of just having the mag drop out, it's attached to a hinged floorplate for...actually, I can't think of a single reason that that would be better than a drop-free magazine. I don't know if the BLR has this same type of magazine.

D) You have to remove the magzine to refill it. You can't just pop extra rounds in to top of the magazine.



It doesn't really matter, I suppose. I can't afford a BLR, and won't be able to for quite sime time, I suspect. And besides that, the rifle I plan on saving up for is a Garand.
 
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