.357/38 lever guns. What are your favorites?

jed said:
I have an original Winchester 92 that I had converted to 357 from 25-20 as well as an Uberti 73. It is a toss up which is my favorite. My advise for what its worth, I think you should save some more and buy the Uberti.
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I wanted to make a project out of building one from a damaged gun or a parts gun, but the cost doesn't seem worthwhile with all the copies, especially the nice copies.
Did you have to get a barrel made, or did you find one that worked?
 
^ check wolverine supplies and wanstalls

edit: wow that mares leg chiappa with a full stock on wanstalls would be less expensive than converting a rossi mares leg to a carbine.

*gears begin turning*
 
conor_90 said:
^ check wolverine supplies and wanstalls

edit: wow that mares leg chiappa with a full stock on wanstalls would be less expensive than converting a rossi mares leg to a carbine.

*gears begin turning*
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I originally planned on stocking a ranch hand, but the one I purchased was garbage. Sent it for warranty and they said the rifle wasn't worth fixing and that they could either requisition one to replace, or refund. I chose the refund... Which took almost a year to get. Not good qc at Rossi.
 
I vote marlin cowboy if you can find one.
Tied for first Winchester 92 Japanese reproduction

My two favorite range toys
 
someone ordered a chiappa when I worked at a gun counter; we looked it over together when we arrived and the fit and finish was worlds away from the ranch-hand. That deal at wanstalls is a steal*

*never bought anything from them, and have no association with them.
 
captonion said:
I like the Marlin but the Henry has the smoothest action you will ever lever..
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The owner has control of the smoothness of his Marlin leverguns.
A strip down, cleaning, removal of tooling marks and burrs and polishing can make butter smooth cycling leverguns out of even the rough out of the box Remlins.
I don't care for the Henrys with their magazine tube loading slots, fake brass and plastic barrel bands and sights.
The Henry Big Boy I hefted at a local gun shop weighed a ton.
8.5 pounds of unscoped rifle with pistol cartridge power that's as heavy as my 375 H+H.
No thanks.
 
Can't beat the new Miroku Winchester's. They are expensive but the quality is superb, In my opinion they are the finest mass produced firearms available.
 
Jabotinsky said:
Can't beat the new Miroku Winchester's. They are expensive but the quality is superb, In my opinion they are the finest mass produced firearms available.
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The new Browning "gold trigger" BLRs are also made by Miroku.
The quality is indeed superb.
My BLR is in 308 Win and is a take down version.
 
I don't like the rebounding hammer and tang safety lawyers junk on the Miroku 92s.
They are not true to John Moses Browning reproductions.
I owned a Browning B92 in 44 mag a few years ago also made by Miroku that had none of the lawyers safety junk.
Sorry I sold it.
 
torontogungal said:
I don't like the rebounding hammer and tang safety lawyers junk on the Miroku 92s.
They are not true to John Moses Browning reproductions.
I owned a Browning B92 in 44 mag a few years ago also made by Miroku that had none of the lawyers safety junk.
Sorry I sold it.
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Meh. It's not a faithful repro, sure, but the original didn't come in such powerful calibers either. :p
I have 2 of the new ones with the rebounding hammers. They don't bother me. In fact, they make it nice to carry more safely throughout the woods.
I believe the new Winchester version uses coil springs over leaf springs too.
 
If you can find a Browning B92 in 357 mag, 44 mag or 45LC without the lawyer safety junk then grab it.
They're pretty scarce.
I spotted one in 44 mag on the Epps website a couple of months ago and by the time I called my hubby on his cell and he went to the website it was sold.
It was half the price of one of the new Miroku so called "Winchester":rolleyes: 92s.
 
I have one of the Browning 92s. It is a very nice rifle. Friend has a Marlin. One advantage of the Marlin over the Browning is that the Marlin will feed .38 Specials. The Browning needs .357 length cartridges. For reduced loads in .38 brass, I just seat out the bullets.
 
I really enjoy my Marlin .357 1894 CSS, easily one of my favourite guns.
It isn't as smooth cycling as my GF's Chiappa .44 or my dad's Henry, but as torontogungal pointed out if I got off my lazy butt and spent some time polishing the internals I'm sure it could be improved..
Loading the Henry's mag isn't as quick as the side loading gate on the others and gets irritating quickly to me, but doesn't seem to bother my dad so maybe I just need to chill.
One bonus of the Marlin is the side eject; I added XS sight system's rail and peep combo (same as the one that came on my 1895SBL) and a Leupold ultralight 2.5x fixed power scope on quick detach leupold rings. Some people don't agree with putting a scope on a lever gun, but I rarely shoot it with irons now even though it's a 30 sec job to switch back/forth. Also it doesn't negatively affect the weight too badly.
I'll try to hack my way through posting a picture of it..
 
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