Varminterror
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I’ve been looking for an excuse to build a Marlin levergun in 357/44 B&D for a few years, this might just be the straw that broke the camel’s back… I grew up in a rural area where most trucks, back doors, or nightstands around local farms were assigned Marlin or Winchester leverguns, most frequently in 30-30, but certainly a dabbling of revolver cartridge carbines in there. Of the younger generation, I quickly outgrew that old whimsy and have had AR’s as my own HD and coyote mitigation tools, but I have done a lot of work on leverguns in my shop (currently two customer 39A’s on my bench right now) and a lot of shooting and hunting with leverguns of my own, including some Cowboy Action shooting back in the early 2000’s.
I had intention to merge a pair of Marlin 1894’s in 357mag and 44mag to create this B&D mag as much as possible from factory parts - but I’ve also been wanting to build a suppressed levergun, and considering a “tactical” stock set for it, much like the leverguns in the Costa video above. Silencerco has been pumping photos the last two years which have had me drooling for a modern update of a levergun… I’ll have to decide whether I want to use a sub-16” barrel and give up magazine capacity, or tolerate the extra length…
There are a lot of problems which could be well solved with 10 rounds of 180grn Speer HotCor’s at 2100-2200fps from a lever action carbine, so the B&D Mag might need to finally come to fruition for me.
I had intention to merge a pair of Marlin 1894’s in 357mag and 44mag to create this B&D mag as much as possible from factory parts - but I’ve also been wanting to build a suppressed levergun, and considering a “tactical” stock set for it, much like the leverguns in the Costa video above. Silencerco has been pumping photos the last two years which have had me drooling for a modern update of a levergun… I’ll have to decide whether I want to use a sub-16” barrel and give up magazine capacity, or tolerate the extra length…
There are a lot of problems which could be well solved with 10 rounds of 180grn Speer HotCor’s at 2100-2200fps from a lever action carbine, so the B&D Mag might need to finally come to fruition for me.