whats your favorite leveraction and what you hunt with it??

[midland man]

I love my Winchester 94 30/30 and I use it for deer,hog, etc. I use 170gr sp bullets in my reloads and has never let me down! I also have a rossi 92 in 45 colt with 16in barrel and I use it to hunt deer and hogs using 250gr lead bullets. but the 30/30 I have had it since I was 12 and its been the best rifle I ever owned!

 

[Lord Teapot]

marlin 336

i dont hunt with it, but im always amazed how fast its able to put rounds down range, compared to a bolt.

 

[Travis_Griffith]

Browning BL22 with CCI short hollow points for squirrels.

 

[bannockburn]

Rossi Model 92 in .45 Colt. Don't hunt with it but love it's short handy size and smooth lever action.

 

[Fast Frank]

MARLIN 39!
I just wanted to be the first to say it.

 

[scchokedaddy]

Marlin 308 I
Me and a Savage model 99 in 308 love em both for deers

 

[ricebasher302]

My 1895 Marlin in 45-70. 22" barrel, Skinner sight. I hunt elk in the timber with it and use it for deer occasionally. I like the 350 gr. Hornady over Reloder 7.

 

[WestKentucky]

Marlin 62 in .256 winmag. It's been called on for everything from junkyard rats to whitetail. Factory hollow points make a mess of anything it touches. The bullet fragments terribly, but does penetrate about 5 inches in flesh with some larger pieces penetration deeper. This makes for very very messy cleaning, so typically my 336 gets the greenlight.

 

[Quentin]

My first gun was a Marlin 336C in 1971. Still have it. Yep, my favorite lever action. But I do like the Winchester '94!

 

[eastbank]

large framed older winchester and marlins in big calibers. i,m working on my latest winchester, a 1886 in 40-82 and i found the load it likes. they are very heavy tho. eastbank.

 

[flc]

Browning BLR stainless takedown in .358 Win. Deer, Elk, Hogs and whatever else. plus this.

Browning BL22 .....for squirrels.

 

[GBExpat]

Marlin Model 1894s in .44mag that I bought, used, about 30 years ago ... but I stopped hunting many years ago.

I still enjoy walking the woods, though, but I now much prefer watching the critters to shooting them.

 

[Salmoneye]

Marlin 1893 in .30-30...

Round balls for small stuff, up to hard cast 165gr for deer and bear, and anything in between...

 

[StrawHat]

I have a Winchester 1895 rifle that was built in 1900, it chambers the 405 WCF and could be used on everything in North America. I load it to duplicate the ballistics of the 40-72 and save the factory loads for the odd rhinoceros or elephant that wanders into my backyard.

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Kevin

 

[DM~]

My old Henry lever 22... I just love the way it's so light and handy, and so do the kids that shoot it...

I bought it to be my "beater" and it's just amazing that, that little 22 just keeps on keeping on, through rain, sleet, and snow! It's been more reliable than a mail man! lol

It has the old first model, plastic sights and they are still like new, even though this gun has taken falls off an ATV, been left out in the rain and snow, and about everything else, even being run over by an ATV a few times.

And about those plastic sights, with hi-speed ammo, a crow just isn't safe out to a hundred yards!

BTW, as so many different people have shot it, I have no idea how many rounds have gone through it and I've never cleaned it, even one time, and it's still 100% reliable.

DM

 

[Speedo66]

I was using a Browning BLR in .308 for deer, great woods gun. Moved last year to a pistol caliber carbine only state, and recently bought a Rossi 92 in .357 which I hope to use next season.

The Rossi is surprisingly accurate, and I'll be using 180g Buffalo Bore hard cast solids with a very wide flat nose. They run a muzzle velocity of about 1800fps from a rifle.

 

[Nature Boy]

BLR in .358 win for deer

 

[jmr40]

I rarely hunt with any of them, but these are my favorites. A 1958 made Marlin 336 and a 1958 made Winchester 94. Both built the same year I was born.

dont hunt with it, but im always amazed how fast its able to put rounds down range, compared to a bolt.

Is a training and practice problem. Leverguns are only slightly faster for repeat shots, and if hitting a target is a requirement there is no difference. My best time with a 308 bolt rifle is 1.8 seconds for 3 shots, I've shot 3 a pistol caliber lever gun in 1.3 seconds, but 1.5 is the best I've done with a 30-30.

With a requirement that all 3 shots must hit a paper plate at 50 yards I'm faster with the bolt gun by a slight amount.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN7UNEP0Rt4&feature=youtu.be

 

[Reloadron]

While I don't much hunt anymore the one lever gun I loved for whitetail hunting in West Virginia is my Marlin 444. The rifle was short and handy and had an edge over my Ruger 44 Carbine, another rifle I loved for West Virginia. Today that old 444 Marlin is the only lever gun I have.

Ron

 

[kBob]

The best of the Marlin .22 lever guns......model 56 I use for occasional tree rats (grapes and figs need protection) and four legged chicken coop marauders.

If I were to get back out into the big woods for cloven hoofed game I would take the 1894 Winchester in .30-30 again, of course.

-kBob

 

[cpt-t]

midland man: My favorite Lever Gun is my 26 in barreled Marlin 1895 CB in 45/70 and I have had it for several years now. I have always had a thing, ever since I was young, for Big Bore long barreled Rifles, Handguns. IMHO they just fit me better, and I shoot them better, and I have always found them easy to carry and much quicker on target for me. I Cowboy Shoot with this rifle, and have killed several Pigs, Deer, Coyotes and other Varmints with it as well. I shoot it a lot and I carry it a lot and it just feels right in my hands. I reload for it, and the load I use most 95% of the time is 35 grs of IMR3031 and a hard cast 405 gr LRNFP Bullet. This is a very comfortable and accurate load for me to shoot and I have always gotten full penatration on any thing I have shot with it side to side or end for end. And this rifle is both very comfortable and comforting to me, when I am by my self hunting or just out walking around in the woods.
ken

 

[76shuvlinoff]

All Marlins and In this order
56 39A. Rabbits, chucks, paper, was dad's so it's my # 1.
77 39A. Rabbits, chucks, paper. Had it for 36 years.
79 1894c .357. Chucks and paper
01 1895cb 45/70. 26" barrel. Just paper so far.

 

[loose noose]

Marlin 1895 45-70, bought originally for bear, but have used it for deer in heavy brush, has awesome power using the 405 grain cast bullet incorporating a gas check.

 

[stiab]

Couple of .243 for deer, Winchester now has a 2.5 Weaver on it...

 

[MountainBear]

For years I tried in vain to find a factory lever action that I liked and wanted to keep. I've tried most. Savage 99's, pre- and post-64 Winchester 94's, Marlins of various flavors, Rossi's, etc. Tried them in different calibers. Tried .30-30, 44 mag, .357 mag, .45-70, etc. Even bought and then sold certain guns to friends only to buy them back later. Never could get one to stick. A few years ago, I decided I wanted a truck gun. A friend of mine had a barreled action WesternField (aka Marlin 30as, aka Marlin 336 with a nose cap). So I spent a good amount of time, called in some favors, spent some money, and ended up with a lever action .30-30 truck gun that I'm into for more than I could ever get out of it. But it's been the only lever action that's stuck in my collection longer than 6 months.

So far its been through two deer seasons and one elk season. No luck there yet, but it does have two buffalo to its name. I lent it to a friend who is a mobile butcher and he says headshots from it worked wonders at buffalo from 50 feet...



I put furniture from a Marlin .308 express on it, and then decided to pull them back off an put them on a weight loss plan. Much slimmer, much lighter, much better feeling in the hand. I swapped out the ejector for a wild west one-piece, not because I felt like it needed it, but rather because I happened to have one laying around. The barrel was chopped to just about 17" and the front barrel band was replace with a cowboy model style mag retention. XS sights and rail were added. The entire gun was Cerakoted graphite black. Scope is a Leupold 2.5x scout scope in quick detach rings. Some days I wish it was a .357, but I like it never the less. The .30-30 seems to do everything I could want it to.