Lets get a some lever action #### going

Road King said:
My Marlin 1895 take down in .45-90. This rifle has half round, half octagon barrel, half magazine, pistol grip, shot gun butt, checkered in the No. B style. This gun was shipped from the factory in March 15, 1899. This gun is in original condition

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That is a gorgeous rifle RK. I'm a Winchester man, but that is one Marlin I would be very proud to own. I would love to find a nice old Marlin 1895 in 45-70, 33WCF or 45-90, but they are - as you know - very hard to come by, as really are many nice old Marlins of condition. Just didn't make as many of them as Winchester did. The numbers just aren't out there. Fine rifle.

Matt
 
Here is one of my nicer Model 1893 Marlins. The special features of this .38-55 caliber gun are, Take Down, Half Round 26" barrel, Pistol Grip, Checkered stocks,( "A" number style), Half magazine, Shotgun butt and Marbles adjustable Leaf rear sight, Marbles Flexible tang sight with a Lyman No. 3 front sight. The barrel is marked Special Steel, which is the very first term used for guns with smokeless steel barrels (very rare to find these early guns marked this way). This gun was shipped from the factory June 1st 1897.
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Road King said:
My Marlin 1895 take down in .45-90. This rifle has half round, half octagon barrel, half magazine, pistol grip, shot gun butt, checkered in the No. B style. This gun was shipped from the factory in March 15, 1899. This gun is in original condition

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I was going to comment that your photography looks just like Win .38-55:).
Win .38-55 I guess we are not going to see a new calendar this year:(?
 
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Win .38-55 I guess we are not going to see a new calendar this year:(?
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Unfortunately, there won't be a 2012 calendar. It is quite a bit of work to photograph 12 different old leverguns, and I wasn't able to find the time this year. I think I do want to see if I can get one together for 2013.

Road King's Marlins made a believer out of me. That deluxe Model 1895 is about the most beautiful rifle I have ever had the privilege of seeing.
 
I guess we could not have lever #### without having the one that started it all.
This is my original Henry repeating Rifle. This gun was advertised in 1860 as;

" The Most Effective Weapon in the World. For a House or Sporting Arm, it has no Equal. A resolute man, armed with one of these Rifles, particularly on horseback, CANNOT BE CAPTURED."

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Just to keep the theme of Marlins going, I thought I would post a photo of one of my Model 1893 Saddle Ring Carbines. This is very nice gun and one of my favorite rifles. The SRC is a very balanced rifle to carry in the bush or on horseback. These SRC guns in .30-30 caliber have likely shot more deer than any other rifle in Canada. This one still has lots of case color on the frame and lots of original finish on the walnut stocks. It has the standard 20" Special Smokeless Steel barrel and as Marlin advertised "From buttplate to muzzle it is built for hard sevice." This gun was shipped out early in 1900.

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Road King said:
Just to keep the theme of Marlins going, I thought I would post a photo of one my Model 1893 Saddle Ring Carbines. This is very nice gun and one of my favorite rifles. The SRC is a very balanced rifle to carry in the bush or on horseback. These SRC guns in .30-30 caliber have likely shot more deer than any other rifle in Canada. This one still has lots of case color on the frame and lots of original finish on the walnut stocks. It has the standard 20" Special Smokeless Steel barrel and as Marlin advertised "From buttplate to muzzle it is built for hard sevice." This gun was shipped out early in 1900.

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Beautiful little carbine! RK, you are taking some very nice photos.
 
Another one of my Marlins. This is the Model 1889 developed and patented by L.L. Hepburn in April 2,1889. This was Marlin's first side ejection rifle and revolutionized Marlin lever action rifles. This same mechanism is still being utilized today in the manufacturing of Marlin rifles. Marlin started producing these rifles in September 1889. A total of 55,119 Model 1889 rifles were produced and of this 10,000 carbines were made, (this was Marlin's first Carbine).

This rifle is in .32W caliber, more commonly refered today as .32-20 or .32WCF. There were only 15,440 .32 caliber rifles produced. It sports a 24" octagon barrel and full magazine. this rifle is equiped with a Rocky Mountain rear sight and Rocky Mountain German Silver blade front sight. These sights are original to this gun. This rifle was shipped from the Marlin factory August 15, 1894


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I'm in the club!

Here's the one I just bought! A 1957 model 94 Winchester in .30-30. :) This is the only picture I have of it so far...it's in the mail to me.

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Another Marlin Model 1893 that I have is an interesting rifle. This rifle is considered by a lot of collectors as being a LW rifle but Marlin LW rifles were advertised as having 20" barrels. This Model 1893 TD has a special order 24" (26" was standard) round barrel in the .32-40 caliber. The barrel is the rapid taper barrel and the lightest barrel that Marlin offered. This gun also letters with the 1/2 magazine and hard rubber shutgun butt. It has the standard Rocky Mountain rear sight and the Ivory bead Marbles #5 front sight. This Take Down rifle still retains 90% original wood finish, 90% original bluing on barrel and magazine. There are stil 25% case color remaing on the frame. A gun in very nice condition for 111 years old.
This rifle shipped from the factory Oct. 22, 1902. The rifle was destine for me as my birthdate is also October 22nd, only 47 years later.:D

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