I like everything about that picture!!

Smasho bite the bullett and go buy you a lever 22 and 22 mag and a 33-30 and heck thrown in a 44 mag and you got it covered !!! You’ll thank us all later when you shoot them all and fall in love like a school girl

Hold yer horses I’m still paying off that Coyote blanket!!

Besides, first thing I want is a flintlock pistol.

And probably a 4 wheel drive full size pickup…

Just buy a group get the guns and a truck !!! It’s just money !!! Dig up some of them mason jars buried out back

Sharon I'm stealing that picture as proof to my wife i do need a new mushroom gun. Although I was thinking something smaller than .44 mag but that will take them right off the stem with one shot so just maybe...

Seriously I have told her more than once I need a new mushroom hunting gun. This falls right into place.

Winchester 94 in 30-30, and a Winchester 9422. Would like to add a 1873 replica sometime

Henry Carbine .44 mag. My son has killed several deer with it.



We have a Henry Golden Boy in .22 mag that sets in the safe for the most part. It's a family gun so it won't be sold, but even though its a nice gun and fun to shoot, we don't have a lot of use for it. Our A22 mag gets all the use for caliber gun.

2x. if I run across one of these at the right time and price it will follow me home. Definitely one that's on my list along with M1 grand

I forgot about shooting a friend's.22 Henry lever action he won at a banquet. It was very smooth and shot well. Both of my boys liked it also.

An older Marlin 35 Rem has eluded me for years.
If I really wanted a 35 cal levergun, I'd buy a Henry 360 Buckhammer....

I disliked the way it loads/unloads, I dislike the hammer/safety, I find it very awkward, much harder to operate quickly.

I spent most of my deer hunting days using a 870 , where i live was shotgun only for most of my life.

Seeing how I used a 870 or a 1100 for all sorts of other hunting from Sept till Feb. going to a lever gun for deer hunting was night and day difference.

I have used other Guns for deer hunting but none were as awkward (different) as the Marlin to use.

I see no reason why I should bother with a lever gun.

Just my .02 for what little its worth.

Thank you for the explanation. I started with an 870 for deer hunting myself and was elated when I could finally use a lever gun. I've always appreciated the operation of a hammer gun and a lever gun, and felt it was more natural for me. Interesting how different folks operate in completely different ways.

I have my great uncles 99 in250/3000 found a stith mount for it shot a deer with it and its the only lever I own. He hunted the blue ridge in the Adirondacks with his brothers and my father.

this one use to be my favorite, then I got old and my eyesight failed, sold it to a young veteran. a winchester model 71 carbine in 348 win.

It’s unanimous smash you need lever gunssssssssss!!!!!

I think between the 2 of us we're up to about 14 lever actions rifles.
Everything from .17 HMR to .454 Casull.
Fun to shoot for sure and great hog hunting guns.

Look at that B’ar!!!!!

Makes since to me I started deer hunting with a bow but my first deer gun was an 870. But my first shotgun was an old break action single shot Steven's so cocking the hammer as the gun come up is also natural and probably why leverguns feel so natural to me.

I had never even though about it before so thanks for your post. I love things that get me thinking.

I probably wouldn't own a lever action rifle if I hadn't inherited one. I prefer bolt actions and pump actions in that order.

As far as loading the Marlin, and probably Winchesters too, there is a trick to it. When you feed a round into the magazine you don't push it in all the way so the gate closes, you leave the end stick out. Then you shove the one sticking out all the way in with the bullet end of the next round and repeat until fully loaded. It's much easier, smoother and faster than shoving each cartridge all the way in so the gate closes.

I've always unloaded back out through the magazine gate. It's kind of a pain to get the first one started, especially with a full magazine tube, but after that you back them out in reverse of the loading procedure, you don't let that gate close until the last round is out.

I know most folks just lever them out because it's faster and easier but I've never liked or used that method. It's not the safest method and you end up with cartridges all over the ground most times.

The hammer safeties are just stupid. I wouldn't own a hammer gun with that sort of ridiculousness installed.