Author Topic: What Is Your Dream caliber in a Lever Action Rifle? (Read 24439 times)

MZ5 · « **Reply #120 on:** October 20, 2011, 04:09:57 PM »

I would absolutely love a BLR in 25 WSSM. After that, I wouldn't mind one in 6.5 Creedmoor.

If Henry would make a STRONG, pointy-bullet-suitable lever gun, I'd buy that, too.

jlchucker · « **Reply #121 on:** October 21, 2011, 11:03:19 AM »

30-30 Winchester!

Country Boy · « **Reply #122 on:** October 23, 2011, 09:00:20 AM »

model 88 wincheter in.358

JWP58 · « **Reply #123 on:** October 23, 2011, 12:34:06 PM »

Win model 95 in 30-40 krag

Win 1886 in 45/70

Dixiejack · « **Reply #124 on:** October 23, 2011, 12:55:06 PM »

My.250/3000 Savage in my Model 99.

Rex in OTZ · « **Reply #125 on:** October 23, 2011, 05:41:44 PM »

Remingtons answer to Winchesters 30-30,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30_Remington

http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/admin/product_details.php?itemID=45451

http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/admin/product_details.php?itemID=45213

streak · « **Reply #126 on:** October 23, 2011, 06:00:21 PM »

Quote from: Swampman on July 12, 2010, 04:09:58 PM

.30-40 Krag

New Marlin action to fit the .460S&W and .500S&W.

I am with you on that one Swampman!!

StrawHat · « **Reply #127 on:** October 24, 2011, 12:50:12 AM »

Quote from: JWP58 on October 23, 2011, 12:34:06 PM

Win model 95 in 30-40 krag

Win 1886 in 45/70

You could get the best of both by acquiring a Winchester 1895 cut for the 405 WCF cartridge.

Harry Snippe · « **Reply #128 on:** October 27, 2011, 09:14:39 AM »

Quote from: Larry Gibson on August 22, 2010, 06:29:19 AM

I would like to see .307/.356 Winchester M94AEs sans the tang or push button safety in Black Shadow configuration with the composite stocks and 24" barrels (14" twist barrels in both calibers). Hornady's .35 cal LeveRevolution J bullets would be excellent in the as would be cast bullets.

Larry Gibson

I am with Larry on the 307/356 . Think with all if Marlin/ Remington problems Winchester has missed the boat to bring these calipiers back with Hornady's new powders.

A composite stock would please if it would help to keep the price in check , but with out a current model I would just be pleased with what winchester could offer the working man.

Then too what would it cost to expand the 1895 Winchester line up with the return of the 30 Krag or the 303 British?

ratdog · « **Reply #129 on:** October 29, 2011, 07:56:30 PM »

1886 browning winchester in 45-70 sweet .

tanoose · « **Reply #130 on:** October 30, 2011, 04:52:34 PM »

i would love to see marlin come out with a new model lever action in calibers 454 casull to 50 s&w.

Capt Gary · « **Reply #131 on:** November 03, 2011, 10:31:54 AM »

Marlin in 45/70 and 30/30.
I have them both. A 1895 STBL and a 336C that I found yesterday. It was still NIB from 1974. Old buy purchase it, took it home, put it in the closet and never unboxed it. Still had factory stickers on the stocks and the manual attached to the lever.

You can load both to do most anything you want and they are neat, handy guns to hunt with.

qwikrick · « **Reply #132 on:** November 22, 2011, 04:52:44 PM »

Quote from: jedman on July 12, 2010, 03:15:44 AM

I would like to see the Marlin and others chambered in 357 maximum.

X2 A 16'' marlin in 357 max would be awsome.

jlchucker · « **Reply #133 on:** November 23, 2011, 01:58:16 AM »

Quote from: Drilling Man on July 17, 2010, 03:12:10 PM

Quote from: Lurker on July 11, 2010, 07:09:01 PM
Calibers in a lever gun...

In Winchester firearms:

Pistol Calibers: .25-20, .32-20, .38-40, .44-40...

Rifle Calibers: .40-65, .45-70...

Bill

I'm just wondering what pistols were chambered in 25/20WCF? I always thought it was a rifle cartridge...

DM

I always thought so as well, DM. In fact in a similar thread I voiced the same thought as you, and some guy submitted a photo of a single-action revolver identified as being a 25-20. If anyone ever manufactured such a revolver, back in the day, it must have been experimental. Back in the heyday of the 25-20 there was no computer-aided design, with dimensions being downloaded into CNC machinery. Getting a cylinder to line up exactly right, all the way around, with a barrel so that the bottlenecked dimension landed in the right place each time the gun was cocked was no doubt possible, but pretty complicated do do, then assemble, in any kind of quantity that would allow for some sort of profit. 25-20 rounds have a lot more bottleneck to worry about in this regard than the slight bottlenecks of such calibers as 32-20, 38-40 (really 40-40) and 44-40. My guess is that if any manufacturer made a 25-20 to sell decades ago, they didn't make very many of them and they must have been pretty expensive.

jlchucker · « **Reply #134 on:** November 23, 2011, 02:06:55 AM »

Quote from: Drilling Man on December 18, 2010, 05:23:55 PM

Quote from: jlchucker on December 18, 2010, 06:33:12 AM
There may not have been any, at least not production models. Just think of the machining and fitting required to make that much of a bottleneck cartridge function in a revolver--on a production basis. Notice that the bottlenecks on the 32-20, 38-40 and 44-40 are very slight. The 25-20 is more of a shrunken 30-30.

Just so you can say that you've "seen" one, here's my S&W "K" frame 25/20WCF,

DM

DM, that's the photo I remembered when I commented on an earlier posting just this morning. Seems like I said roughly the same thing back then. Is this revolver a custom job, or was there an actual, cataloged model being sold in 25-20? Darn--this topic about "dream" leverguns is getting really OLD!

Drilling Man · « **Reply #135 on:** November 23, 2011, 04:40:59 AM »

Quote from: jlchucker on November 23, 2011, 02:06:55 AM

DM, that's the photo I remembered when I commented on an earlier posting just this morning. Seems like I said roughly the same thing back then. Is this revolver a custom job, or was there an actual, cataloged model being sold in 25-20? Darn--this topic about "dream" leverguns is getting really OLD!

It is a custom revolver that i had built many years ago...

DM

P38 · « **Reply #136 on:** November 25, 2011, 08:25:58 AM »

Quote from: jlchucker on November 23, 2011, 02:06:55 AM

Quote from: Drilling Man on December 18, 2010, 05:23:55 PM
Quote from: jlchucker on December 18, 2010, 06:33:12 AM
There may not have been any, at least not production models. Just think of the machining and fitting required to make that much of a bottleneck cartridge function in a revolver--on a production basis. Notice that the bottlenecks on the 32-20, 38-40 and 44-40 are very slight. The 25-20 is more of a shrunken 30-30.

Just so you can say that you've "seen" one, here's my S&W "K" frame 25/20WCF,

DM

DM, that's the photo I remembered when I commented on an earlier posting just this morning. Seems like I said roughly the same thing back then. Is this revolver a custom job, or was there an actual, cataloged model being sold in 25-20? Darn--this topic about "dream" leverguns is getting really OLD!

Nice S&W revolver

........ I want one.

Here's my Dream lever gun............1892 winchester in 25-20. My wife bought it for my birthday this year

Drilling Man · « **Reply #137 on:** November 25, 2011, 11:12:55 AM »

That's a nice old Winchester... How much does it weigh?

DM

P38 · « **Reply #138 on:** November 25, 2011, 04:25:30 PM »

Quote from: Drilling Man on November 25, 2011, 11:12:55 AM

That's a nice old Winchester... How much does it weigh?

DM

Cheers DM

Yeah it is a very nice rifle thats been really well looked after for most of its life by just two owners.
The last owner fired it only once, he had owned this rilfe since the early 1960's

This winchester was manufactured in 1910 and weighs about 6 1/4lbs empty

This is what it does at 100m with 60gr Hornady FP

and 75gr Speer FP

Not too bad for a 110 year old rifle with a blind old shakey bugger looking down Buck Horn sights and yanking on the trigger while trying to stand up straight in a howeling cross wind

.

I currently only shoot it on the range on special occasions.

Drilling Man · « **Reply #139 on:** November 26, 2011, 03:23:09 AM »

Very nice... If it was mine, i'd be shooting it all the time!

DM

temmi · « **Reply #140 on:** December 02, 2011, 11:32:15 AM »

Mine is a 450 Marlin.

A XLR

I do wish someone would make it in a nice Blued version with Nice walnut and a 26 inch octagon barrel.

TJF1 · « **Reply #141 on:** December 12, 2011, 04:50:38 PM »

MARLIN IN 327 FEDRAL

temmi · « **Reply #142 on:** December 13, 2011, 07:47:41 AM »

45 Colt and 450 Marlin

that's the ticket!

Jarhead63 · « **Reply #143 on:** February 17, 2012, 09:34:50 AM »

Have the wants real bad for a Marlin 1894 "P" "styled" Carbine in .454 Casull or one of these,
http://www.drcfirearms.com/_webapp_1238650/DRC_Lever_Action_Rifle
In semi-fancy Walnut.

Nobade · « **Reply #144 on:** February 17, 2012, 02:33:29 PM »

I hadn't seen those. They look right nice!

These are cool too:
http://www.bighornarmory.com/

Jarhead63 · « **Reply #145 on:** February 18, 2012, 03:53:40 AM »

Yeah, I saw those and I agree very sweet! Thats why I wanted the walnut vs the stanley hammer handle furniture. I have only 2 reasons I want a .454 #1 a companion rifle to my super redhawk and #2 the fact I can shoot the .45 LC all day long. I know that the Rossi 92's are decent rifles but from what I understand it takes a considerable amount of work to get the Actions slicked up. Oh, well the Thread was "Dream" so I'll just keep on dream'n.

scootrd · « **Reply #146 on:** February 18, 2012, 04:56:44 AM »

Does anyone own a a Browning BLR 20" Barrel Lever in 7mm-08 ?

I would be interested in a review.

I always though fitted with a compact low power scope would make a superb woods gun (with the ability to take the occasional 200 yard open field shot out to about 200 yards?).

Dalgo · « **Reply #147 on:** February 18, 2012, 09:37:13 AM »

I have a mint blue, ported Marlin 95 GG in .45-70 that is superbly accurate, that I really love. Just picked up a Win. 86 Extra Light, also in .45-70. Really balances well, and with a Lyman peep sight shoots very accurately. So, I guess, the .45-70 is getting to be my "dream caliber." Sure enjoy flinging those big slugs out there. On another note, I sure do like .22's. Would like to get a Marlin 39 Mountie - but nothing coming out of the Rem. factory - or a straight-stocked Win. 9422.

Dalgo

Jarhead63 · « **Reply #148 on:** February 18, 2012, 01:03:49 PM »

Something like this.....

I carried a black rifle for 20 years and now I have a few synthetic all weather rifles but nothing automatic. I now have a new respect for wood and the simple things in life. So yeah, I am happy with my little .22 and my No. 1's.

Dalgo · « **Reply #149 on:** February 18, 2012, 02:05:15 PM »

Yeah! That's beautious!