lever loop

[Rmac58]

The draw for me, it's just cool.

 

[Cocked & Locked]

[/quote]Why put a large loop in the lever?[/quote]

Sometimes the cool factor requires it...

Winchester Wrangler, 16" .44 magnum, Williams rear sight, Lyman front sight

 

[Float Pilot]

Now I have to sit down and watch more of my John Wayne collection to see whcih movies he used a oversized lever...
I am pretty sure about the highlighted ones...

1939 - Stagecoach
1944 - Tall in the Saddle
1945 - Dakota
1947 - Angel and the Badman
1948 - Fort Apache
1948 - Red River
1949 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1950 - Rio Grande
1953 - Hondo (released in 3-D)
1956 - The Searchers
1959 - Rio Bravo
1959 - The Horse Soldiers
1961 - The Commancheros
1962 - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 - How the West Was Won
1963 - McLintock
1965 - The Sons of Katie Elder
1967 - The War Wagon
1967 - El Dorado
1969 - True Grit
1969 - The Undefeated
1970 - Chisum
1970 - Rio Lobo
1971 - Big Jake
1972 - The Cowboys
1973 - The Train Robbers
1973 - Cahill, United States Marshal
1975 - Rooster Cogburn
1976 - The Shootist

 

[qwert65]

float he used it in eldorado, the train robbers, the undefeated and rio bravo. he spun it in eldorado

 

[goon]

I would be interested to find out what movie that is. I've tried different one-handed methods with my Dad's .22, but I couldn't get any of them to work reliably or safely (yup - those levers can really pinch!).

~Dale

I think that movie was El Dorado. There is a specific line where he and Robert Mitchum have a conversation about the large loop, right after Mitchum gets the drop on Wayne while he's washing up.
Fortunately, they were friends.
He also carreid the large loop in True Grit and Rooster Cogburn and I'm pretty sure he used it in Rio Lobo (right after they leave the jail he tosses the rifle he'd been using and grabs his own from his horse) and Big Jake.
IIRC, he didn't use the rifle any in the Shootist so I'm not sure he had it there and in the Sons of Katie Elder he used mostly captured weapons so he didn't have his own rifle.


I'd like to get a standard Marlin 336 and have the barrel chopped to 16", then add a large loop.
My hands aren't that big but I think the loop looks cool and that's a good enough reason for me.