- Location
- AB foothills
Winchester 1886 trapper???
- Thread starter crazy_davey
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- Location
- AB foothills
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
Beautiful rifle, but what a pain machine! Even low velocity ammo meant for Trapdoor Springfieldswould be uncomfortable.
Gotta wear your PAST shield with that puppy.
would be uncomfortable.
Guess men (and women) where a lot tougher back in 1886!
Sorry to the guys that are into it but that rifle is the answer to the question that nobody asked. The original trapper 92 and 94 rifles are compact and handy rifles but that thing is a complete abortion in my opinion. The proportions are awful!! Original trappers had a forend one inch and sometimes two inches shorter than standard to ensure that the rifle looked proportional. Epic FAIL!!
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
Yer right as far as the fore end being too long, and if this new rendition had a shotgun butt....I would be working on gettin' one.
It looks kind of cool but form doesn't follow function on this one. Marlin had it right with the guide gun for a short barrel thumper you want a flat smooth but stock with a decent recoil pad for quick shouldering and and shooting. Those horns would be getting hung up on your clothing and anything else in the way, its about as bad a snap shooting configuration as you could get IMO.
As an aside my wife picked me up a Rifle Sporting Arms Journal yesterday and 'Mr. Lever gun' Brian Pearce has a good article about Marlin's woes and how they've tooled up and staffed up and are trying desperately to get back on track since they moved the plant to New York in 2010.. I sure hope they do. Anyways he drifts off and talks about the demise of the American Lever action tradition started by Winchester in the 60s to where there are no quality lever guns made in North America. He praises old Winchesters, Marlins till recently, Japanese Winchesters of the 70s to 90s and then dumps on Winchester's current offerings made in another plant, not Miroku, in Japan. I was a little disappointed to hear this. I was thinking today's Winchesters were the real deal again.. they're priced that way. But, not in Mr Pearce's opinion he finds many flaws.
As an aside my wife picked me up a Rifle Sporting Arms Journal yesterday and 'Mr. Lever gun' Brian Pearce has a good article about Marlin's woes and how they've tooled up and staffed up and are trying desperately to get back on track since they moved the plant to New York in 2010.. I sure hope they do. Anyways he drifts off and talks about the demise of the American Lever action tradition started by Winchester in the 60s to where there are no quality lever guns made in North America. He praises old Winchesters, Marlins till recently, Japanese Winchesters of the 70s to 90s and then dumps on Winchester's current offerings made in another plant, not Miroku, in Japan. I was a little disappointed to hear this. I was thinking today's Winchesters were the real deal again.. they're priced that way. But, not in Mr Pearce's opinion he finds many flaws.
