Lets get a some lever action #### going

The Montreal Home Guard that I am trying to find the bayonet for!

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kentjt -

Nothing showing up here, as you undoubtedly noticed ,,,,

Based on the e-mail notification of your post that I received, it appears that you tried to post an image directly from your own computer's hard drive. However, you can't do that here. The image file must be hosted online somewhere (like a personal Photobucket account), and the URL for that must then be inserted into your message with the image tags .....
 
You want lever action ####, check out the 1889 Marlin 32/20 that just sold today on Exchange of Antique Firearms, Black powder, and Modern Muzzle loaders. Just beautiful. Pics are still there -maybe the new owner will load them up in this thread.

BTW 99trix - love that Montreal Home Guard. I have a thing for Savage 99s! :D
 
iroc22 said:
Any idea how many of the original 800 still exist today?
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Some figure less than half, but the real number in unknown. I know of 7 originals in Canadian collections and another 20 in US collections that are all original. Also there is one in Canada that is original but it has been deactivated and is on public display. I'm sure there are a lot that I don't know about here in Canada. They really have an interesting and rich history.
 
blargon said:
Bill, have you shot anything with that brute yet??:D What scope are you using?


Brad, that's a Burris Scout scope (2.75x) I bought used years ago..last mounted on an 1895M.
It hasn't put anything down yet...but I think that's related to the fella using it:D

(fyi gents, big lever loops for Marlins can be had from Wild West Guns. The rails are made by XS Sights Systems)
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I'm not normally that attracted by engraved rifles, but this story and pictures were posted on MarlinOwners.com a while ago and I became a changed man... just love this rifle... although it's not mine, and sadly most of the pictures are now dead links :(

Back in the 1980's, my dad got into old lever action rifles...both Marlins and Winchesters His interest sparked a desire for a "shooter." He ordered a Marlin 1894 .357 at our local K-Mart. When it came in, my dad promptly removed the white spacer between the stock and the buttplate. He then sanded down the stock and forearm and applied several coats of Lin-Speed, letting each coat dry in the sun before steel wooling it down and putting on another coat. My father really liked how his little Marlin looked with its newly re-finished oil stock. But it wasn't short enough for him. My dad tightened his basement vise around the barrel and took out his hack saw. He cut the barrel down to 16 1/8". Then he re-crowned the outside and inside of the muzzle with hand files. He also re-cut the dovetail for the front sight and the slot for the barrel band's screw...again all with hand files. My dad worked over the action and performed a trigger job on his lever action. It was a very handy little carbine that shot great!

I went to a gun show my senior year in college and bought a Marlin .357 1894 for $150 of my hard earned summer job cash. When I brought it home, my dad made it into a duplicate of his. He showed me how to refinish the stock and I still love the way Lin-Speed smells on a hot summer afternoon....

I loved my little Marlin so much that I couldn't pass up a gun show deal on an 1894 chambered in .44 Magnum. As soon as it was home, the wood was off and being sanded and slathered in Lin-Speed. It spent a few hours in my dad's basement vise with the sound of a hacksaw blade and files grinding away.

One day, my dad and I spotted saddle rings for sale on a gun show table. We looked at each other and we both knew they had to go on our Marlins.

My best friend also bought a .44 Magnum 1894. His dad had a Winchester John Wayne commemorative with the big loop lever. My friend Karl called me and asked if Marlin made a big loop lever (this was before Wild West Guns even existed). When I told him that they didn't, he decided right then to make one. It helped that his family business had a machine shop with a CAD/CAM and that he was an engineer.

Karl blueprinted his Marlin lever and his dad's Winchester's big loop lever. He overlayed the blueprints and created a work sheet for the internal functioning of a Marlin lever with the Winchester's big John Wayne loop. Then he turned it over to his CAD/CAM genius and put the proper steel into the machine.

Out came four Marlin big loop levers. Before he had them blued, he had his initials, my initials, and my dad's initials stamped on the bottom (he left the fourth lever blank). They all worked perfectly the minute we installed them in our rifles.

My dad passed away in 2004 and Karl bought my dad's Marlin .357 from my mom. It seemed right that Karl should retain it. I didn't need two .357's and I would never want to sell mine - it's the first gun I ever bought. I still have several other of my dad's guns so I'm happy Karl likes having my father's .357 Magnum.

I used my1894 .44 magnum in Cowboy Action Shooting for a couple years, but it only holds 9 .44 Special rounds. I bought a Marlin 1894 Octagon .44 Magnum (only made in 1973) to use in CAS since it holds 10 .44 Specials and is much more competitive.

I've had a few handguns engraved by Michael Gouse. (www.mtart.com) Each one has 75% coverage American Scroll. I think Gouse is a master of gun engraving artwork. I started thinking about saving my pennies to have my short Marlin engraved.

I just got it back from Gouse and I am (again) enthralled with how handsome it looks. The engraving just sets off the rest of the custom features. Since the barrel band is so close to the muzzle, I decided to have the band and the forearm retainer engraved instead of the end of the barrel. I really like the engraving on the top of the barrel where it meets the frame.

Here's the pics, let me know what you think!
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