My friends …… thanks to you and all the post as of late on lever action rifles, well I couldn’t take it anymore. I broke down and bought a Marlin 1895 Marlin guide style gun minus the stainless steel. I after researching all the posts decided on 45-70 although I was considering .450 Marlin and .444 calibers. I have wanted a lever action gun for 20 years.
I have a modest collection of rifles. My best rifles are the ones that I have researched here before purchasing. I don’t think I will ever buy another gun without researching it here first.
So far I own a tricked out sportorized Mosin Nagant all thanks to many posts here. I cut that barrel off to 20 inches and added a synthetic stock and a leupold scope mount front scout sniper style. Thanks to the many ideas here it groups at 1”MOA no matter what it shoots. It is a great plinking machine.
Next, I bought a sub-MOA Weatherby Vanguard stock gun with a Bell and Carlson stock and topped it off with a VX3 Leupold 3x 9 by 40mm in 30.06 caliber with a 165 grain bullets it is a fearless gun. All with my research here, I have never had a better shooting deer rifle. For mid Missouri it is an awesome rifle,,,,,heavy woods at times large open crop fields at others. It took me months to pick this one out and I trusted all the reviews here rather than ones from stores that sell the products.
Now to the last purchase, I am like a kid in a candy store. I have never owned a lever action gun before. I plan on shooting 325 grain Leverloution 45-70 Hornady rounds out of it. I am also going to top it off with a set of ghost ring sights to keep it scopeless.
You guys should have seen the look on my wife’s face when she found out it could kill Grizzly bears, Moose, and anything else..lol. She said well why did you buy that gun. We don’t have any of those animals here. My response was well we certainly won’t to have grizzly problem now.
Keep the ideas coming……….Best regards…………… Jamie Folsom
I have a modest collection of rifles. My best rifles are the ones that I have researched here before purchasing. I don’t think I will ever buy another gun without researching it here first.
So far I own a tricked out sportorized Mosin Nagant all thanks to many posts here. I cut that barrel off to 20 inches and added a synthetic stock and a leupold scope mount front scout sniper style. Thanks to the many ideas here it groups at 1”MOA no matter what it shoots. It is a great plinking machine.
Next, I bought a sub-MOA Weatherby Vanguard stock gun with a Bell and Carlson stock and topped it off with a VX3 Leupold 3x 9 by 40mm in 30.06 caliber with a 165 grain bullets it is a fearless gun. All with my research here, I have never had a better shooting deer rifle. For mid Missouri it is an awesome rifle,,,,,heavy woods at times large open crop fields at others. It took me months to pick this one out and I trusted all the reviews here rather than ones from stores that sell the products.
Now to the last purchase, I am like a kid in a candy store. I have never owned a lever action gun before. I plan on shooting 325 grain Leverloution 45-70 Hornady rounds out of it. I am also going to top it off with a set of ghost ring sights to keep it scopeless.
You guys should have seen the look on my wife’s face when she found out it could kill Grizzly bears, Moose, and anything else..lol. She said well why did you buy that gun. We don’t have any of those animals here. My response was well we certainly won’t to have grizzly problem now.
Keep the ideas coming……….Best regards…………… Jamie Folsom
