Browning Model 1886 (pics)

[oldfool]

now play nice kids
looking for an argument re: strongest lever actions... just float on over to leverguns.com, it gets argued a lot, but common consensus is, good as the Marlins are, '92 and '86 are substantially stronger, locking lugs you know
some real well known lever gun people used to hang out there, probably still do, and lots of 'em load hot

 

[natman]

Not sure, some folks are saying at least $1000+.

Do what you think best, but there's a big difference between saying $1000+ and a genuine offer for $800.

OTOH:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=208860569

 

[CraigC]

$800 is a lowball offer, I would not let that rifle go for less than $1200. Patience should yield at least $1400.

You seem to have missed my point.

No, I just don't feel the need to justify something I accepted as fact 10yrs ago, just to prove a point to an anonymous internet poster. No offense meant.

At least for me, until then, the claim is "an assertion unsupported" or, in other words, an allegation.

That is fine.


EDIT: I did find this while perusing the usual suspects.

http://www.leverguns.com/articles/paco/4570_leverguns.htm

Quotes from the article:
"At 'Level Three'.....Also the Marlin .45-70s are on the market. The rifle has been around since its reintroduction back in the late 1960s and now Marlin has introduced the .45-70 in their Guide Guns. And they are neat. These guns are sure to be in level three and can be loaded to 40,000 psi."

"'Level Four' and the top level in pressure are the modern '86s in .45-70 by Browning and Winchester. Certainly 50,000 psi is a usable and stable pressure level in these guns."

 

[Old Time Hunter]

$800 is a lowball offer, I would not let that rifle go for less than $1200. Patience should yield at least $1400.



No, I just don't feel the need to justify something I accepted as fact 10yrs ago, just to prove a point to an anonymous internet poster. No offense meant.



That is fine.


EDIT: I did find this while perusing the usual suspects.

http://www.leverguns.com/articles/paco/4570_leverguns.htm

Quotes from the article:
"At 'Level Three'.....Also the Marlin .45-70s are on the market. The rifle has been around since its reintroduction back in the late 1960s and now Marlin has introduced the .45-70 in their Guide Guns. And they are neat. These guns are sure to be in level three and can be loaded to 40,000 psi."

"'Level Four' and the top level in pressure are the modern '86s in .45-70 by Browning and Winchester. Certainly 50,000 psi is a usable and stable pressure level in these guns."

Pretty much answers the question, don't it?

I believe they haven't made the Brownings since the mid '80's according to the Blue Book. I've got a couple, one that I use occasionally and is like new and one that is new: