Lever action carbines for home defense

[tanksoldier]

<<Dilema: Choosing a lever gun VS a shotgun for HD and outdoors use.>>

Solution: A lever-action shotgun (pics swiped from an ad on GunsAmerica)

I own a Marlin 1894 .357, plan to shoot it for the first time tomorrow. It _seems_ like a versitile firearm, with light 110gr loads for HD and heavy Buffalo Bore 180gr for the woods/ camp gun or hunting medium-size deer and such .

 

[riverdog]

If your rifle has micro-groove rifling, the barrel will favor longer bullets.

 

[brownie0486]

I'm replacing the Win94ae 30-30 that is always in the truck this next week with an EMF/Rossi 357, 20 inch barrel. It will have a slicked up action and trigger work before it arrives.

I'll stoke it with Buffalo Bore 180 gr fnl. With the 20 inch barrel, it's pushed at 1900 fps. and delivers about as much as the 30-30 in fpe.

I live in the desert, whats cold and condensation?

Robin Brown

 

[tangodown]

I have a winchester 30-30 in the back of my truck... Its classic... May switch it out with an sks carbine like a norinco paratrooper, or one of those cut down yugos.

Wouldnt mind a .357 levergun though... Or even better a .44 mag to go with my new vaquero!!!

 

[JMusic]

I have a Marlin 1894 CA with octaganal barrel and ballard rifeling in 45 LC. It has been tuned and has been outfitted with a set of peeps. It is a very good shooter. 21 grns of H110 with 255 grn laser casts give me about 1500 fps. I certainly wouldn't feel undergunned with this rifle though it is not my primary defense weapon.
Jim

 

[middy]

Glenfield 30 (Marlin 336) 30-30

 

[MBane666]

Thought you might be interested in this...I'm in SoCal filming the "wraparounds," the studio stuff, for NRA TV, which shows at all the hotels around the Milwaukee NRA Meeting and Show next month.

Mark Keefe from AMERICAN RIFLEMAN, who's co-hosting with me,, asked me, "Bottom line, Michael. For self-defense, what's in your bedroom?" Mark laughed out-loud when I told him it was a Winchester 94 in .44 Magnum...

Michael B

 

[Manedwolf]

Mark Keefe from AMERICAN RIFLEMAN, who's co-hosting with me,, asked me, "Bottom line, Michael. For self-defense, what's in your bedroom?" Mark laughed out-loud when I told him it was a Winchester 94 in .44 Magnum...

So? It's not much of an "expert" who laughs at someone for having an effective weapon that doesn't happen to be THEIR personal favorite.

If he was really an "expert", he would have just asked you why you favored that, and if you were particularly good with it.

Some people are absolute deadeyes with lever-actions from horseback, even. It's all dependent on what works for you.

And I wouldn't laugh at that, period. If you wouldn't laugh at someone for having a .44 Magnum revolver for HD, why would you laugh at them for having something more accurate and easier to point?

 

[Run&Shoot]

I believe that Mark Keefe was chuckling in agreement, not derisively. I know I did. I am sure many of us would since we love to talk about all the latest pistols, rifles and shotguns.

Ideally it would be great to jump out of bed into your tactical boots and pants, slip on the armored vest with pockets filled with extra mags, pepper spray, and plastic cuffs, grab your NV goggles and M1A SOCOM with red dot sight, Surefire light with IR filter.

But when it comes down to what will you pick up when you wake up at 3am in the dark, I bet a good many of us have in hand a .357 revolver, a lever carbine, or a pump shotgun.

For me it would be a Ruger GP100 to help me get to the armory closet where I can retrieve the 870, 1911 and Garand.

 

[James T Thomas]

The Rifleman

Chuck Conners once shot a perfectly good rocking chair on his front porch to pieces with his lever action rifle. He told the man he was trying to impress that with that much fire power; "I could cut a man in half!"
The man decided not to draw on him.

Seriously, what lubrication is used to keep the lever action from freezing in below zero weather?