LEVER-ACTION
New Rifles, Old...
Are we living in the 'good old days'?
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Winchester...
The Wincehster Model 1866 helped "win the west."
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Taylor's &...
Quick, what 130-year-old product do you still use in its original form? A car? Nope. Airplane? Nope. Train? Nope. Radio, TV set, computer, socket set,...
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Pistol Caliber...
The pistol-caliber carbine idea started in the Old West
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Lever Guns On...
"The Highwaymen" is an entertaining movie about legendary lawman Frank Hamer and his partner Maney Gault in their hunt for Bonnie and Clyde. Early in the...
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Big Horn...
New from Big Horn Armory is their Black Thunder Model 89 rifle. While Big Horn Armory rifles are traditionally known for spectacularly grained walnut rifles...
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Winchester Model 150
I’ve used many Winchester rimfires of ’30s, ’40s and ’50s vintage that — more or less — fit the description of “budget” .22.
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Taylor's & Company 1892...
Quick, what 130-year-old product do you still use in its original form? A car? Nope. Airplane? Nope. Train? Nope. Radio, TV set, computer, socket set,...
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Things Change
The argument can be made rifles haven’t changed much. If I were to show up for a deer hunt driving a Model T, my fellow hunters would think I must have...
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The Winchester Model 88
It’s funny how incidents in early life stick with us. In the late 1950s/early 1960s, I was a preteen moppet. I had a BB gun and a pellet rifle and could...
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Rossi R92 .454 Casull...
As American as Chevy’s 454 big-block engine, the lever gun has been around since before the Civil War. Nothing stirs the spirit of a rifleman more than a...
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The Marlin Trapper
I’ve always loved Ruger guns. Who doesn’t? Imagine my surprise when I heard Ruger purchased Marlin, my second-favorite gun brand! Now I’d have the...
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The .300 Savage
A swatch of color reined me in. Over the next hour several elk winked in and out of timber below but the slope was rock-rolling steep.
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Springfield Squad-Scout M1A
Over the past 40 years, I’ve encountered many Springfield Armory M1As. In the late 1970s, the first one I fired belonged to a friend — a Vietnam combat...
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Rossi R92 .38/.357 Mag.
Nothing is “funner” than a day shooting a carbine lever gun. Doing so brings back the excitement and enthusiasm you had as a kid from watching John...
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Winchester Model 94 Memories
“Boy, hand me that rifle.” He pronounced it “ryeful” in his deep, raspy voice. I eased the battered old ’94 over the bale of hay between us and...
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.32/.38/.33 WCF Cartridge...
Over many decades of shooting, one is bound to develop favorites. One of mine is a genre of firearms; pistol-cartridge rifles, carbines and revolvers.
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One First Deer
It was a crisp November afternoon in the early 1960s. A yearling boy and a yearling whitetail buck were walking in new fallen snow, on farmland owned by the...
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Savage Model 23-B
In the 129 years Savage Arms has been in business, the company has produced more than its share of iconic firearms — the Model 99 lever-action rifle, the...
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Maximizing Your...
Who says lever guns have lost their usefulness in today’s world of semi-auto shooters? Not Me! Especially when fitted with accessories from Skinner Sights...
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The .357 Magnum Lever Gun
Beginning in 1860, history records a real change in personal sidearms. This was the year Oliver Winchester’s factory issued the first really workable...
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Trailblazer Pivot
The Trailblazer Pivot is a radically unconventional 9mm rifle designed to collapse into a compact package for covert portage or handy storage. The Pivot...
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The Other Old West Repeaters
Without a doubt, TV and movie portrayals of the American West have caused Winchester lever guns to become iconic. I’ve bought into this and still do,...
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Winchester Model 1886
It was an arms race and Winchester was way behind. In 1873 the U.S. Military made the single-shot .45-70 Springfield Trapdoor their standard rifle. The same...
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.405 Winchester Model 1895
In my most humble opinion, the following is a conundrum about Winchester’s Model 1895. Many people say they would only want one if chambered for the...
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Replica Winchester Leverguns
Over the years my rifle racks have held scores of original Winchester lever guns. This was especially true when doing the shooting for my book Shooting...
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Then And Now
For rifle enthusiasts, these are the best of times as we have an amazing array of rifles, scopes, cartridges and bullets. The first deer hunting I did was...
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Lever Gun ’Lope
Watching the wide, heavy antlered buck antelope was amusing as he was keeping his harem of roughly a dozen in a tight pack. If one ventured too far, he’d...
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Marlin Model 336 Classic...
Back by popular demand, Ruger announced the reintroduction of the Marlin Model 336 Classic lever-action rifle.
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Handloading For Combos
For many reasons some handgunners like having a rifle/carbine of the same caliber as their pistol. I’m one of those people.
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Northern Precision .500...
Bill Noody of Northern Precision has been thinking big these days, caliber-wise. He’s had requests for 0.500"-sized bullets and Bill delivered.
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Marlin Lever Guns
Ask most shooters when the first .45-70 lever-action rifle appeared and they will say the 1886. Winchester had begun with the 1860 Henry .44 Rimfire then...
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Winchester Model 64
A whole lot of lovers of leverguns consider Winchester’s graceful Model 64 to be the best-looking rifle ever put together — and they’ll certainly get...
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The Immortal .30-30
New cartridges come and go. Occasionally — not often — they come and stay. Sometimes a new cartridge is so sensational, so far ahead of its time, it...
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Evolution: Decades of Deer
Big game rifles have evolved continuously with the introduction of new models, new cartridges, new manufacturing methods, changing hunting conditions and...
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Accessorizing Your Ruger...
As Marlin fans anxiously awaited Ruger’s rendition of the classic levergun with trepidation, I never doubted it for a second.
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Levergun Leverage
In 1855, partners Smith & Wesson, Horace and Daniel, formed the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company to improve upon the Rocket Ball lever action design of one...
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Marlin 1895 SBL
“We’re mighty proud of it,” said Mark Gurney. “But it’s not a Ruger Marlin. It’s a Marlin.”
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Are Lever Actions Obsolete?
With the large number of modern, modular, semi-automatic rifles chambered for intermediate cartridges in circulation, do lever-action firearms still serve a...
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The New Original Henry
Nothing’s more American than lever-action rifles. The pride and romance associated with them is legendary. Even to this day, they’re revered for their...
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Which Guns Actually Won...
Which guns were instrumental in making the west safe for settlers? Mike "Duke" Venturino counts two as co-winners with two others as second-placers.
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Winchester Enigma
While my Marlins have killed deer, bear, elk and pronghorn, I’ve taken just one buck with Winchester’s classic deer rifle.
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