N9NWO
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- Apr 12, 2021
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I really wish there was more push to innovate a bit on tubular magazine lever actions.
New cartridges and such based around them. The last one I remember coming out as a factory option was the 450 Marlin.
Many folks are pining for 9mm, 10mm, and 45 ACP lever guns. (These would be useless to me but I read about it often on here)
I wouldnt mind to see a lever action friendly factory offering rimmed cartridge with a 1.8” case length for straight wall areas. Something like a lengthened 45 Colt. This would negate the head spacing and tubular magazine problems of using straight wall rimless cartridges in lever actions.
But alas, we are beholden to the relatively cheaper and generally boring AR as the platform of interest right now. Maybe one day.
Back in the late 1800s often the lever action rifle in a pistol caliber (ie 44-40, 38-40) was used to hunt with.