Lever-gun fingerbanging
- Thread starter nsgallup
- Start date
- Location
- Behind a large rock
Pretty easy for small handed or short fingered people to say... Until you've been whacked when you are already stuffing your fingers into a small hole, you do not have an argument
We all know that no matter how hard the thing recoils, it shouldn't be slipping around in your hands??? Wash the g@ddammed Lavender scented lotion off your hands, put the butt stock firmly into your shoulder and HOLD ON!!!
Hollywood BS aside levers have been the same size for 150ish years. Nobody #####ed but that was a time when men were men and a woman knew her place.
Only one end of the gun is supposed to hurt... if the wrong end hurts you YOURE either a lady or YOURE doing it wrong
I'm thinking this is more a case of Lilly livered pansys that need shooting lessons than anything.
- Location
- Behind a large rock
Oh right... I forgot the smile.
Manning up isn't required when your fingers fit into those loops with sufficient space... Show us a picture of your hand in the loop to prove you are filling the space and "manning up" to recoil/impact...
Otherwise it didn't happen and we know you got sufficiently small hands and don't understand what us "lilly livered pansies" with large hands are describing...
- Location
- Behind a large rock
Are they large weak hands or large slippery hands? Honestly your gun shouldn't be sliding around in your hands. This is more a case of poor "gun control " than anything.Manning up isn't required when your fingers fit into those loops with sufficient space... Show us a picture of your hand in the loop to prove you are filling the space and "manning up" to recoil/impact...
Otherwise it didn't happen and we know you got sufficiently small hands and don't understand what us "lilly livered pansies" with large hands are describing...
canadaman30
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Far from the City
My pinky finger was getting scoffed with my Marlin. Took a Dremel and rounded the edges on lever, problem solved.
Joking aside... Large hands with big knuckles molded from boxing/kickboxing, palms are about as rough & gritty as they can get and they do not sweat. I am very serious - its not an issue of sliding around per se, because even 1 or 2 mm in movement under recoil will impact when your fingers already occupy most of the space... Short of replacing or expanding the loop, the only solution I have found that works for me is holding the loop outside...
/joking back on
You are quite the lever gripping anti!
Last edited:
My savage 99e.308 is the most violent of all my rifles for some reason as well..
- Location
- Behind a large rock
I wrap mine in maxipads... nice and soft and if I get my period I'm set.
Those new miroku winchester short rifles (20" bbl) in 450 marlin are a sob for shoulder and knuckle cracking with the buffalo bore 430 grain ammo.
When shooting off sand bags keep your fingers (except the trigger finger) outside the loop.
Tried one a friend brought to our pit last weekend.
He had a leather butt cover with 1" of dense foam between the butt plate and the bottom of the cover on it and it was still a shoulder bruising tooth rattler especially fired from the bench.
The finger lever was wrapped with deer hide strips.
I don't think he's going to keep it.
He showed us his bruised shoulder and said he was developing a flinch.
Shooting is supposed to be fun not torture.
1 shot was enough for me.
When shooting off sand bags keep your fingers (except the trigger finger) outside the loop.
Tried one a friend brought to our pit last weekend.
He had a leather butt cover with 1" of dense foam between the butt plate and the bottom of the cover on it and it was still a shoulder bruising tooth rattler especially fired from the bench.
The finger lever was wrapped with deer hide strips.
I don't think he's going to keep it.
He showed us his bruised shoulder and said he was developing a flinch.
Shooting is supposed to be fun not torture.
1 shot was enough for me.
