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Posted: 6/15/2014 1:22:30 AM EDT
What sort of lever gun have you had the fantasy to purchase(or have already purchased), or go to a gunsmith and commission because it does not exist, or is no longer in production? I'll start.
Imagine the M1 Garand and the FN P90 were to have a bastard child. This child has the rugged mechanism and automatically ejecting magazine of the older gun, and the top mounted magazine and the downward ejecting casings of the newer gun. Now imagine the bastard child of the Winchester M1895 and the Browning BLR. This child has the large cartridges and straight-up ejection of the older gun, and the flush-to-stock detachable 5 round magazine and lever style of the newer gun. Now imagine THESE two have a bastard child. My dream lever gun fires the .30-06 full power cartridge, and has a cloth brass catcher that has a flat rod that keeps it from getting in the way of the lever and attaches to the bottom ejector port (which, since it is on the bottom, ejects straight down and a little forward). Sights are comparable to the M1 Garand, but with the addition of a removable disc peephole attachment for the rear. It is able to safely transition between black and smokeless powder. It has a semi-grip stock, which has a compartment accessible from the butt-plate for cleaning materials. I call this gun the Court Jester, because of how funny it might look to most other gun owners. So, what's yours? Real or fanciful, it's up to you. Just make sure to post pics if it's real, or pics with you holding it if you have it already! 
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Posted: 6/15/2014 1:27:58 AM EDT
[#1]
Winchester 1886 featherweight 45/70
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Posted: 6/15/2014 1:28:31 AM EDT
[#2]
Wild West Guns
Alaskan CoPilot. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 8:38:50 AM EDT
[#3]
Win 1895 carbine and musket
Henry 1860 1866 carbine |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 8:49:34 AM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Wild West Guns Alaskan CoPilot. ^^^This. .457 magnum. I'd also appreciate a well built Marlin in .454 to go with my SRH. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 12:42:01 PM EDT
[#5]
My dream is a Model 94 style lever gun with a tubular magazine like the one in the Remington model 14 pump gun, which permitted the Model 14 to shoot pointed, bottle-necked bullets. I think a Modelm94 clone in .223 Remington/5.56x45 would be a fun little gun.
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Posted: 6/15/2014 4:22:22 PM EDT
[#6]
Winchester M94, AE, no ghey manual safety, in 7-30 waters. Oh, 20" barrel.
I know, they exist, damn near every time I post this someone will IM they have one they are willing to sell, just not at a price I can afford 
Until FN brings back the M94, the mossberg 464 will serve my needs. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 6:24:41 PM EDT
[#7]
16'' 44mag.
already 30-30x2 45lc 22lr. clown |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 6:26:36 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Winchester 1886 featherweight 45/70 Shoulder just hurts thinking about it. 
I'll take a pre-safety Marlin or Win .357 in either 16 or 18 inch. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 6:28:18 PM EDT
[#9]
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Wild West Guns Alaskan CoPilot. Neat gun, bullshit company. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 6:31:06 PM EDT
[#10]
My Browning 1886 SRC in .45-70.
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Posted: 6/15/2014 7:00:11 PM EDT
[#11]
Marlin 336 in 6.8 SPC.
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Posted: 6/15/2014 10:07:01 PM EDT
[#12]
A 94 in .45 ACP.
John |
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Posted: 6/16/2014 8:00:31 AM EDT
[#13]
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My Browning 1886 SRC in .45-70. <a href="http://s137.photobucket.com/user/USMCGruntUSAFCATM/media/Firearms/Rifles/FEC500E4-3DE5-48BD-8633-23816A5E6DF9-5318-00001421060B6B4C.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q236/USMCGruntUSAFCATM/Firearms/Rifles/FEC500E4-3DE5-48BD-8633-23816A5E6DF9-5318-00001421060B6B4C.jpg</a> I bought your rifle's twin last week and was thinking about mentioning it in here, but wasn't sure I should before the honeymoon's over. Might get to the range and take a picture or two to put up later today. Considering that I really like my Browning '86 rifle whenever I take it out and shoot it, but hate the weight and ungainliness, I'm hoping the SRC is a happy medium. Got a very strong suspicion that whichever one I've last handled, with whatever little negatives I feel for it corrected would be my dream levergun at any given moment. |
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Posted: 6/16/2014 8:48:32 AM EDT
[#14]
I already have it.... a Browning BLR in .308
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Posted: 6/16/2014 3:59:06 PM EDT
[#15]
Winchester 1886 Extra Light Take-down in .45-70* (Combining the best elements my Extra Light and my Deluxe Take-down into a single rifle, this could replace my Extra Light, but I'd still keep the big Deluxe model)
Winchester 1892 Trapper Take-down in .357 or .44 Mag (replacing the octagonal barrel of my .357 Trapper Take-down with a lighter, round barrel) Winchester 1895 Take-down in .405 Win (Instead of the solid frame model I have.) * .45-90 or .50-110 if ammo was affordable and readily available. |
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Posted: 6/16/2014 11:11:03 PM EDT
[#16]
I hope Mossberg makes a lever that takes AR mags.
Kidding. Co-pilot for sure. |
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Posted: 6/17/2014 1:23:36 AM EDT
[#17]
Savage 99 in 7.62X39.
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Posted: 6/17/2014 7:56:12 AM EDT
[#18]
Already have it; 444P
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Posted: 6/17/2014 6:32:10 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I bought your rifle's twin last week and was thinking about mentioning it in here, but wasn't sure I should before the honeymoon's over. Might get to the range and take a picture or two to put up later today. Considering that I really like my Browning '86 rifle whenever I take it out and shoot it, but hate the weight and ungainliness, I'm hoping the SRC is a happy medium. Got a very strong suspicion that whichever one I've last handled, with whatever little negatives I feel for it corrected would be my dream levergun at any given moment. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
My Browning 1886 SRC in .45-70. <a href="http://s137.photobucket.com/user/USMCGruntUSAFCATM/media/Firearms/Rifles/FEC500E4-3DE5-48BD-8633-23816A5E6DF9-5318-00001421060B6B4C.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q236/USMCGruntUSAFCATM/Firearms/Rifles/FEC500E4-3DE5-48BD-8633-23816A5E6DF9-5318-00001421060B6B4C.jpg</a> I bought your rifle's twin last week and was thinking about mentioning it in here, but wasn't sure I should before the honeymoon's over. Might get to the range and take a picture or two to put up later today. Considering that I really like my Browning '86 rifle whenever I take it out and shoot it, but hate the weight and ungainliness, I'm hoping the SRC is a happy medium. Got a very strong suspicion that whichever one I've last handled, with whatever little negatives I feel for it corrected would be my dream levergun at any given moment. Got out to the range w. it today. Here: 
Kicks a bit more'n the rifle version or the Marlin '95SBL with its pad, but I expect it'll be carried and looked at while sitting in the woods a lot more'n it's shot, except for load development and sighting in. |
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Posted: 6/17/2014 8:18:48 PM EDT
[#20]
One that shoots photon torpedos with minimal kick and with the photon ammo costing less than 45/70 ammo
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Posted: 6/17/2014 8:33:05 PM EDT
[#21]
Win 94 16in Trapper model in 10mm.
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Posted: 6/17/2014 9:36:58 PM EDT
[#22]
16" JM marlin stainless steel, plastic stocked, black peep rear - gold bead front in 357 mag - they came close and i never could connect on one
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Posted: 6/18/2014 11:09:13 AM EDT
[#23]
Savage 99 358 Winchester
Would settle for a Model 88 in .358 |
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Posted: 6/19/2014 5:25:29 PM EDT
[#24]
An older Savage model 99 in .270
A Winchester model 92 in .357 that can be gate fed and tube fed.. |
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Posted: 6/19/2014 6:13:47 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Win 94 16in Trapper model in 10mm. |
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Posted: 6/19/2014 6:17:49 PM EDT
[#26]
JM Marlin in Stainless and 22. No, they don't make any levers in stainless 22.
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Posted: 6/19/2014 10:34:46 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Win 94 Marlin 1894 16in Trapper model in 10mm. FIFY
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Posted: 6/19/2014 11:15:52 PM EDT
[#28]
Marlin 30AS in 30-30 Improved.
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Posted: 6/20/2014 6:25:26 AM EDT
[#29]
I finally got mine: http://762precision.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/the-dream-rifle-and-suddenly-there-it-was/
     Browning 1895 re-bored to .35 Whelen Lyman 17 Globe Front Sight, Providence Tool Company Pattern 21 Rear Sight Oil finished stock and re-shaped schnabel forend Shotgun-style buttplate My other dream levergun is a Model 71 Winchester, of course. My dad's kept us fed growing up on a homestead in the bush. Mine saved my life.  Center rifle is a 1936 Winchester Model 71 long tang with bolt-mounted peep sight. Caliber is .348 Winchester, of course. (.348 WCF is the farthest left cartridge in the line-up at the bottom). |
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Posted: 6/20/2014 2:43:19 PM EDT
[#30]
Marlin 30TK and/or Savage 99 in 7mm-08.
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Posted: 6/20/2014 7:47:56 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Savage 99 in 7mm-08. |
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Posted: 6/21/2014 6:07:41 PM EDT
[#32]
I would like a 22LR rimfire that is indistinguishable from Uberti's color case hardened, 1873 short rifle.
There are many rimfires on the market, and I am sure they are all fine rifles, but I can tell they are rimfire from a block away. I would like to find a 22LR rimfire version of the Sharp's falling block rifle - a mini Quigley. Lyman made and sold them a few years ago. They came and went before I was aware of them. I've never seen one but they are 3/4 scale of a real Sharp's rifle, so I am a little concerned. Then again, it could be a perfect fit for my wife. I would like to get either a .357 magnum or a .44 magnum. I know this is not as exotic as the two requests, above, but it is what I'd like for me. |
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Posted: 6/21/2014 9:17:38 PM EDT
[#33]
I want a .348 Winchester model 71. I want a Marlin in .348 Winchester.
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Posted: 6/22/2014 12:03:35 PM EDT
[#34]
A Marlin 1895 that shoots phased plasma in the 40 watt range! Lol
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Posted: 6/22/2014 3:22:46 PM EDT
[#35]
This would certainly be a good thread to read if you were a firearms seller. I'm sure some of the items are available somewhere and if you could connect the buyer with the item,...
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Posted: 6/22/2014 10:25:55 PM EDT
[#36]
I want a takedown levergun in .357 Maximum that will also feed mags and 38's
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Posted: 6/22/2014 10:52:25 PM EDT
[#37]
Russian contract 95 Winchester in 7.62x54R.
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Posted: 6/23/2014 4:30:26 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: FIFY Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Win 94 Marlin 1894 16in Trapper model in 10mm. FIFY You both do realize that while the 10mm is a hot handgun round, it's performance out of a long barrel is anemic compared to the 357mag, don't you? I love my 6" bbl'd Glock 20L and my handloads give me great performance, however, in a rifle bbl even as short as 16", it's performance falls off due to the small case and relatively fast burning powders, even those as slow as Power Pistol, while the performance of the 357mag using a full load of H110 powder keeps accelerating even in a 24" barrel. ETA: I handload for my 10mm Glock as well as my 357mag Rossi leverguns (both 20" carbine and 24" rifle) and I've shot my hot 10mm loads in a friend's 16" conversion carbine. The 10mm loads in the carbine, show a reduction in velocity over the same loads in my 6" G20L while the full power 357mag's velocities are fastest out of my 24" rifle as compared to my 20" carbine or 7.5" Uberti pistol. Further, I also load 40s&w for my G22, G23, and G24 as well as my son's Hi-Point 40 carbine and the carbine's performance out at 100yds, even with hot loads, isn't anything to write home about either. |
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Posted: 6/23/2014 4:31:54 PM EDT
[#39]
I'd like to have a lever gun, but I slimmed down my calibers last year. I know I can get one in 22LR, but I'd love to have one in 223. Don't see how it could happen though.
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Posted: 6/23/2014 5:09:41 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I want a .348 Winchester model 71. I want a Marlin in .348 Winchester. |
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Posted: 6/23/2014 5:13:09 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You both do realize that while the 10mm is a hot handgun round, it's performance out of a long barrel is anemic compared to the 357mag, don't you? |
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Posted: 6/23/2014 5:44:11 PM EDT
[#42]
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Hard to beat the .357 from a carbine or rifle, and by design of the cartridge, it would likely run more reliably from a levergun than a 10mm ever would. The rim serves important purposes . . . Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You both do realize that while the 10mm is a hot handgun round, it's performance out of a long barrel is anemic compared to the 357mag, don't you? I was rather amazed at what I got shooting my 357's out of a rifle (an IMI Timberwolf). |
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Posted: 6/25/2014 12:20:53 PM EDT
[#43]
Titanium!
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Posted: 6/25/2014 1:48:35 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was rather amazed at what I got shooting my 357's out of a rifle (an IMI Timberwolf). Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: You both do realize that while the 10mm is a hot handgun round, it's performance out of a long barrel is anemic compared to the 357mag, don't you? Absolutely! I can't believe the accuracy I've gotten with 158grn Zero JSP bullets at long ranges. It's a pistol bullet and it shouldn't carry so well but it does! In addition, I also use 158grn Rainier and X-Treme plated bullets and they do exceptionally well at full 357mag velocities and 200+ yds too. Besides the accuracy of the setup, the flexibility of the loads, the ability to carry a fair amount of ammo without extreme weight issues, and the comparability with a wide variety of handguns makes it winning combination in my book. |
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Posted: 6/25/2014 11:21:02 PM EDT
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Marlin 336 in 6.8 SPC. I hate you for putting that idea in my head. |
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Posted: 6/26/2014 12:11:01 AM EDT
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Mares leg sbr conversion in 357 with a can.
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Posted: 6/26/2014 12:58:19 AM EDT
[#47]
anything in 500 smith
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Posted: 6/26/2014 7:05:25 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I hate you for putting that idea in my head. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Marlin 336 in 6.8 SPC. |
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Posted: 6/26/2014 8:50:00 PM EDT
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My dream lever gun is a Marlin 39a in stainless steel. Their are a very few made that where chromed and pretty much unicorn rare,buy I love the look on that rifle.
I have a stainless Guide gun and the stainless 39a would go perfect with it.
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Posted: 6/28/2014 3:05:33 AM EDT
[#50]
My dream Lever action would be a Savage Model 99 chambered in 375 H&H. I believe that old rifles should be paired with old cartridges. I might have to have one custom built to look like the one in the pic. It would make a great hunting rifle that can bring down any game in North America and I might use it for a few Safari hunts. |
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