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Offline shvlhead.45

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1895G and 1895CB fore arms
« on: December 06, 2009, 09:17:55 AM »
New to Marlin lever guns.  Bought a new 1895G in May and noticed that the fore arm is considerbly fatter than the fore arm on my brother's 1895 CB and I like that slim fore arm.  Question is, will the cowboy fore arm fit the guide gun w/o modification of rifle or fore arm?

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Re: 1895G and 1895CB fore arms
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2009, 01:01:49 AM »
I'm not sure if that will interchange but I would call Marlin and ask them.
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Re: 1895G and 1895CB fore arms
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2009, 01:59:56 AM »
no the cowboy forarm is cut for a oct. barrel. Ive had a buddy who builds stocks cut down a couple guide gun forarms for me though and it makes the gun in my opinion.
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Re: 1895G and 1895CB fore arms
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2009, 04:43:46 PM »
Thanks much guys.  Guess I'm going to have to figure out something.  I'm no good with wood and would just screw up a good fore arm if I tried to whittle the guide gun's fore arm down.

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Re: 1895G and 1895CB fore arms
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2009, 05:44:57 PM »
When I bought my 95, the fat version was the only one available. As I wanted to be carrying it in Alaska for bear protection, I whittled the forearm and buttstock down considerably. The forearm wasn't that hard, a little time with a bench mounted belt sander and I was done. The butt was harder and I ended up having to fill in a place or two. I also pruned the barrel, and adapted a Williams WGR sight to mount on the rear scope mount holes which was before Williams thought of doing it. Changing the backsite required a front sight on a ramp, so I did that too. I ended up with a sweet "guide gun" way before they were invented.

Funny thing was I had done the work on the gun when I found out I would be moving to Alaska, but before I moved. When I got there I found that another guy had done almost the exact same thing with his 95.