Talk to me about lever carbines

[another pake]

My son in law just bought a Henry Big Boy like this one in 44 mag.

http://www.henryrepeating.com/rifle-big-boy.cfm

Very nice rifle. Smooth action. Very accurate out of the box.
MSRP, around $900. Street price around $825

 

[eastbank]

i own eight centerfire marlins,25-20, 256win mag, 30-30, 38-55, 44-40, 44mag, 45-70. i have a 32-20 cl,but its at my sons right now. i load for them all and shoot them all,i also have three m-39,s in .22. and all are JM,S. i own and shoot many winchesters and like all models of lever actions rifles,ah! hell i like all firearms. merry christmas and a happy shooting new year. eastbank.

 

[Deog]

There are plenty of JM stamped marlins out there for the taking. if your patient, you will find exactly what you are looking for. EXcept for a JM SBL, OR ABL, might as well be a unicorn.
I have been on the hunt for a stainless 44 lever, and have come close, but just have not found the right one yet, but it will show up one day.
Marlin for the win. but i like my 94's as well, just not as much as my marlins.

 

[Elkins45]

I'm starting to steer away from fun guns and more towards shtf guns.

I keep a 44 magnum lever gun in the trunk of my car as a SHTF gun. The experience of Katrina suggests those evil black rifles will get snatched out of your hands by disaster enforcement types when maybe an innocent hunting rife will be left alone.

I have no idea if this is the reality of the situation, but sometimes appearances matter. And few guns look less like "assault weapons" to the uninformed than do all-American lever guns.