What's your favorite lever action rifle?

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#1. Original 1892 38-40 converted in the 60s to 357. Rifle stock, half magazine.
#2. 60s 94 Win 44 mag
#3. Marlin 94 44 mag.
#4, competing for #1, Marlin 336, 30-30 with Marlin scope and mount, no finish pitted exterior, cob rough but a genuine MOA with Them 170 factory loads
 
The most funnest is split... between my Browning 71 .348 carbine, or my Savage 99F in .308. I bought the Savage on a fluke... and after about 3 rounds downrange I was in love. But! That Browning 71 has that bank vault action, and is a very, very capable rifle.

I also have a Savage 99 Takedown in .30-30... an early one with a straight grip. It's nice and all, but it's not the 99F.

Honorable mention would be my Marlin 1894 in .41MAG (1894FG, converted to straight-lever.) It's fun, too, but it's no contest with the bigger iron. Same-same with the Marlin 336... excellent rifles, for sure, but once I shot that Savage, the 336 lost it's luster.
 
I grew up loving the look of the 1894 Winchester in .30-30.

I still love them.

I also love shooting my 1892 Rossi in .45 Colt... and my Henry 22 Magnum...and my 1895 Guide Gun in .45/70...and the Marlin 336 in .35 Rem... and well, I think you get it ;)

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My favorite is in my avatar, Marlin 444SS, but I also have a Winchester M88 in .308, and a Marlin Model 62 in .30 carbine. Along with various other Marlin lever guns/calibers, and a couple of Henry .22's. Yeah, I like lever guns.
 
Easy one to answer since I only have one: my Rossi Model 92. I really don't have any use for a .30-30 lever action carbine but my Rossi in .45 Colt, is perfect for what I want in a handy little carbine chambered for the same cartridge as three of my single action revolvers.
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Over the years I have had, and in some cases still have, a Marllin 1895 in 45-70, a Winchester Big Bore in .307 Win, a Marlin 336 in .375 Win, a Marlin 1894 in 44 Mag, and a Browning BLR in 358 Win. But my favorite is a Winchester Model 88 in 308 Win. Took my first deer with it. And my second. And my third. Then it rested for awhile while other firearms were used for subsequent deer seasons. When brought out again, another deer. It only goes out now on days that it is not snowing or raining, but it still goes out.
 
My favorite is my R92 16" stainless steel 44mag. A much handier, lighter short range thumper than the 35Rem 336 I had.

I'd really like to wring out a Marlin 1894 though. One in 256WinMag, with a 1-4x would be a pretty handy small game/varmint carbine. A 357 Bain&Davis, even better. Too bad no one makes those and rebarreling a lever gun isn't cheap.
 
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The Mossberg 464 is no longer wearing a scope, and I don't have a pic of my Rossi 92 in .357. May have to add one later along with a better pic of the Mossy....
 
Gotta be the Savage 99. My Pop had one in .300 Sav, still has it, When I was a child, my first memories of it were him coming home from the hunt and giving me the empty cartridges from his pocket and showing me the gun and the deer. The smell of burnt powder.... takes me back......Rotary internal magazine on that one...so when I started looking for my first deer rifle, found a guy with one in .308, and had to buy it. Think I paid $250 for it in the late 70's. Still have it.
Knew a gunsmith at the time who told me that most of them were 3" guns, capable of killing deer, but that every once in a while, if treated well with good handloads, they could shoot about 10x better than they had any business shooting. Don't know if that's true or not, my sample set is very small....but I do know that I have turned 4 shot groups at 1", and Dad's has done 1 1/4", so we're batting .1000
 
Mine would be a Marlin 1893 in .38-55 that I bought for $25 in 1963. I'm also fond of my Winchester 1892 rifle circa 1896 in .25-20.
 
Not a true lever action in the sense you are referring, but I’ve always had a romance for the Shilo Sharps 1874 Long Range Express. “Quigley Down Under” was released when I was 12yo and as it happened, I had just started shooting with a junior firearms training club run by my church. Seeing that first scene where Matthew Quigley sticks several bullets through the bucket at an insane distance, sent chills down my spine. And thus started a piece of fond childhood nostalgia I’ll likely never be rid of.

Although I’ve long come to terms with the quoting of a “45 caliber 110 GRAIN cartridge”, and a “540gr PAPER PATCH bullet”, as nonsense... Still, it remains one of the “greats” to me. And if I ever did become a collector, would surely have a place in the harem. Vernier sight, double Set triggers & all.:)
 
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