Officers'Wife
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My Dad has a Marlin lever gun that uses 45-70. I have the 45-70 rifle my uncle made with a Martini type action. He calls me an "ungrateful whelp" everytime he tries to talk me into trading. Even when my uncle was still alive to "tune" that rifle it seemed like there were always feeding problems and the recoil defeated every pad Dad ever tried. I can get a better rate of fire out of the single shot than he can the lever action because of it. And the Martini action is cuter.