Any one ever "Customized" a Marlin lever gun?


Yea don't you hate that, I think I need one like this

Originally Posted By: gary paugh
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Originally Posted By: tnshootistGary paugh,I really like that rifle.Very cool looking for a lever,don't see them like that often.
If any of you guys are looking for short stroke stuff or need the work done give me a PM.I have a neighbor that is very good at this and makes one of the shortest strokes for pistol cal rifles,don't know about rifle cal.He is good though.I can give you his contact info.

Off topic, but I love the anecdote in your signature line. My high school football coach used to use that as a pep talk before big games. I've used it several times in my own coaching and even business career. "Let's go get it all...."
 
I have a marlin guide gun in 450marlin. Dose any one know if i could buy a 45-70 barrel for it or would it be more complicated than just buying a barrel. I like the gun but i like the availability of the 45-70 ammo better. just curios if it would be a easy swap or not. Not trying to hijack your thread but you guys seam like the ones that would know.
 
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Marlin guide gun in 45/70. Truck bed liner stock finish, wild west sights, loop, scout rail and light rail, Leupold scout scope, bear proof ejector and trigger. It was a slick easy handling rifle.
 
My Marlins aren't overly customized. I would like to do some more tweaking to my 45/70.

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I took the Leupold off my 44 mag, just didn't seem right to me after I put it on, it is back to just the XS peeps. The Marlin 336 is a 1974 model, I took off the previous owners scope/rings and painted the front sight post white and shoot it as is. I have a scout rail and a set of XS sights I need to put on it someday.
 
Originally Posted By: Thebear_78
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Marlin guide gun in 45/70. Truck bed liner stock finish, wild west sights, loop, scout rail and light rail, Leupold scout scope, bear proof ejector and trigger. It was a slick easy handling rifle.

Where did you get the light rail from? I've seen that gun posted before and I love it!
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You guys are killing me, I resisted the BRD for a good long time and now I don't know what I would do without my AR. Now I have to get me a lever gun.

Question: what is the advantage of a large loop?


Chupa
 
Originally Posted By: ChupathingyQuestion: what is the advantage of a large loop?

It looks cool...

Mostly it's style, but it's also a little better than the standard loops for comfort. It fits thick insulated gloves better, it's a little more comfortable against your knuckles when you're running one fast, and gives a lot more room if you'd ever feel the need to "John Wayne" it (spin your levergun to cycle it, not sure why people call it "john wayne" though, I don't recall the duke spinning his rifle). Ultimately, it mostly just looks cool. The disadvantage is that it takes more than a finger flick to open it with a big loop, since the loop is that much deeper.
 
The large loop is also much more comfortable when running heavy loads out of the GG. You can bang your knuckles up pretty bad with the factory loop and stout loads. I consider it a "must have" for the 45/70
 
while this isnt a marlin it is a customized lever gun. its a rossi mares leg in 44 mag. We tricked it out for a buddy of mine when he got back from Afghanistan. It was actually fairly easy to mount the quadrail and when a forward verticle grip and redot sight is pretty fun to shoot.

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If you think it is only for gloves or looks you have clearly never run any stout 45/70 loads thru a standard lever. Either that or you have tiny girly hands, cause my big mitts don't leave much room for recoil. My middle finger knuckle gets banged up pretty good when running 405gr @ 1925fps. The larger loop really helps give you some extra room to move with recoil. The wild west loop is a tad bigger than it needs to be but works quite well. The DRC loop is really nice too if you can find one.
 
I've fired more than 20 guide guns over the years and hundreds of rounds out of my personal guide gun. Anyone who has shot them with both levers enough times will notice that heavy loads are much more comfortable when using large lever loops. Go fire lap a few barrels at 50 shots each in a given day and I garantee you your knuckle will take a pounding. If it wasn't a common problem you wouldn't see so many leather wrapped levers out there.
 
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I forgot, I've never actually fired a hotloaded 1895.... Sheesh, zip up...

Point is, I don't "take a beating" just firing a guide gun. Agreeably, the big loops are more comfortable, but in my personal experience, the benefit in comfort isn't upon recoil, but big loops with a leather wrap are dang sure nicer when you're running one fast and smacking that lever open over and over in quick succession. Pushing a few boxes of hot loads out of an 1895 for CAS practice for "buffalo bore" side matches (use the same load for whitetails), nah, my knuckles weren't aching, it's when I was running the dang 1894's pup match loads that you smack open running the same 10rnd series in 7-8sec over and over again at practice that really wears on my knuckles.
 
Are those Rossi Big Loops stiff? That loop looks huge, and they're mighty thin, I've never handled one in person, they look like they'd be a little on the fragile side?
 
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