Lever Action Magazine Capacity

[Bob Willman]

In Ohio rifles in pistol cartridges are allowed for deer hunting. Limit is 4 rounds.

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[mavracer]

For me it's going to depend on which gun and the situation.
I have levers that range from 4 to 13 rounds in the tube.
Sitting in a blind I'd be apt to load 3 or 4 cause I'll have the rest of a box in my backpack close at hand. If I'm stalking any distance I'll stick a few more in the gun or at least top off the mag and stick a couple in my pocket so that I have 8 to 10 rounds on me.
Last time I went hunting with my AR 308 I put 7 rounds in the mag cause I had shot 3 from that box and it left me a 1/2 box, so I'm liable to rationalize any number.

 

[Risky buisness]

I'm about to pick up a single-shot lever action - simply because I don't have one... .

I would like to have a Remington Hepburn too!
I suppose that qualifies as a single shot lever action.

 

[Rexster]

How many lever action hunters fill their tubular magazines to full capacity at the beginning of each deer hunt.
I’ve thought about a number of things if only one round were put in the magazine
1. Less forward weight
2. Ability to use pointed projectiles
3. Less projectile tip damage
4. Less effort to unload after each hunt to make rifle safe at end of hunt.
5. You may have more/ different reasons
I’m just curious
Thanks

I load my Browning BLR box magazines with four pointed rounds, each, of .308 Winchester, because a box magazine is compatible with pointed bullets, and four is all they will hold. (BLR mag capacity varies, from thee to five, depending upon the cartridge dimensions of the individual rifle.)

I did not grow up in a family that hunted, or used firearms, so, I had no family tradition to follow, when I became an adult, and started buying lever rifles. Therefore, tube magazines held no allure, for me, when I became interested in lever-action rifles.

 

[Speedo66]

I load my Browning BLR box magazines with four pointed rounds, each, of .308 Winchester, because a box magazine is compatible with pointed bullets, and four is all they will hold. (BLR mag capacity varies, from thee to five, depending upon the cartridge dimensions of the individual rifle.)

I did not grow up in a family that hunted, or used firearms, so, I had no family tradition to follow, when I became an adult, and started buying lever rifles. Therefore, tube magazines held no allure, for me, when I became interested in lever-action rifles.

I had a very nice BLR, one of the originals made in Belgium, also in .308. Thought it was the perfect woods gun.

Now in a straight wall state, was not able to hunt with it, sold it off. I have tube mag levers, but the Browning was my favorite for hunting, powerful and easy to unload after a day in the field.

 

[Speedo66]

In Ohio rifles in pistol cartridges are allowed for deer hunting. Limit is 4 rounds.

NRA Benefactor Golden Eagle

Don't have to be pistol cartridges, any straight wall cartridge from a minimum of .357 to a max of .50.

 

[StrawHat]

Don't have to be pistol cartridges, any straight wall cartridge from a minimum of .357 to a max of .50.

Thank you, I am glad I read this far into the thread. I was not aware that had changed to this from the list of cartridges they used to post.

Kevin

 

[mcb]

In Ohio rifles in pistol cartridges are allowed for deer hunting. Limit is 4 rounds.

NRA Benefactor Golden Eagle

Limit is 3 rds total, magazine and chamber. I grew up hunting in Ohio. We use the same water fowl plugs in our shotgun magazines for deer and turkey too as required by law. Now with the allowance of rifles (straight wall cartridges) they have dropped the requirement for plugging the magazine but they still try to say 3rd limit for straight-wall rifles and shotgun. It's now an honor system. Interestingly I have a Winchester 9410, an Winchester 94 chambered in 410 and it came with a plug for the magazine that is 18.5 inches long and reduced the magazine capacity from 9 to 2. I used it in Ohio right up to the point they changed the law. Bought a Rossi M92 in 44 Mag the year they changed the law but moved out of the state and never got to hunt with a rifle there yet.

 

[halfmoonclip]

Y'know, an issue I never even considered here in Pennsylvania. My hunting rifles have always been levers, either Marlin or Winchester.
Always stuffed the magazine full. Ninety-fours in thuty-thuty were always an article of faith here; not sure what they hold. Mine are always .44 Mag or .45 Colt.
Moon

 

[Jim Watson]

I would like to have a Remington Hepburn too!
I suppose that qualifies as a single shot lever action.

Has been called the Side Flush Rifle.