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Who is making the best lever rifles today?
What do you want it for, what caliber?Who is making the best lever rifles today?
From what I've been reading, if you're lucky enough to get a good rifle today in that caliber, you're lucky enough to play the lottery.30.30. Hunting inside of 100 yards with no glass
Marlins are a far newer design than Winchesters. Brownings and all the Italian etc. made rifles are copies of Winchesters. The Henry design pre-dates any Winchester, but it's still a Winchester.
They are almost too pretty to shoot!... The thought of getting the Henry dirty, or leaning it against a stone wall just seems wrong!
But the last Winchester in-house design was in 1876. From then on, all lever action Winchesters were designed by John Browning -- the 1886, 1892, 1894 and 1895.It may be more fair to say the Marlin design is a little newer than Winchesters. Theres' an 1881 Marlin, then 1893 and 1894. Winchester started in 1866.