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What is the best lever action for home defense?
>>29515733
Do Indians attack your home frequently?
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>>29515746
There's a family of pakis living downstairs.
Are you a hipster soldier woman on a spaceship in the outer rim?
>>29515749
Even worse.
I recommend Marlin 1895 .45-70
Great for remove kebab
And killing buffalo
>>29515749
>OP tries to genocide his Paki neighbors
>Buys a brand new lever action
>forgets to do first time cleaning
>small, effeminate hands not strong enough to cock it more than once
>as OP dies after the wife buries her hidden terrorist knife between his ribs
>blood gurgling out "I should've bought a semi"
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What lever action did The Rifleman use?
I want one with that same gigantic hand loop.
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>>29515733
Marlin 1894C
Then again, I own .357 revolvers and I am partial to the round.
>>29515733
1887
I love my Winchester 94. Should drop engines or kabobs
>>29516019
>kebabs
Stupid autocorrect
>>29515755
I hate how she uses that shit. Doesn't aim at all, just holds it hip level and blasts away, may as well use a sawed off shotgun, would work a lot better.
1895 in 45/70, I like the GBL model but the others are nice too. If you can't stop anything with that you've got bigger problems.
>>29515793
Correct
Marlin 336 "Big Lever"
.30-30 Winchester
Load with hollowpoints (ones without a jacketed cavity), should hit quite hard while being easy to shoot and not have to worry quite as much about over-penetration.
Also, as the others have said, make sure to actually break in your gun and get comfy with it.
>>29515792
Good old McCain used a Winchester 1892 that was heavily modified for the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdOf5eCuK8g
>>29516075
There's a reason Firefly only got half a season and one movie.
>>29516092
>$3/round
>mfw
>>29515733
Not lever, but Impact has it listed under Cowboy Action.
>>29515733
None.
>>29518305
You mean besides fox being retarded. They love to cancel good stuff in favor of reality tv
The best lever action is a loaded one.
>>29516019
This man knows what's up
>>29518305
Yeah, if you want to shoot nice shit that's bigger bore, you'll have to pay up, you should try rifles that aren't a Nugget some time.
A Model 92 with a 14" barrel, in .44-40. And Mom jeans....
Seriously- watch Stagecoach.
>>29518305
A simple reloading setup pays itself off pretty darn quick with big rifles.
>>29515733
.357 or .44 hollowpoints
Out of the longer barrel they both experience great ballistics and should allow for a faster follow up shot than a full power cartridge. The 44 should be fine out to 75 yards, .357 lighter weight won't allow it to reach as far.
>>29515733
None, every other alternative is better.
Sentrys
>>29516019
Agreed, a 30-30 with silver hollow points leaves a hella of a hole, and the rifle is light and feels natural in your hands while shooting, I can fire mine easily while riding too.
>>29518305
If you own a 45-70 you best own a reloading setup.
>>29523104
>flintlock
>matchlock
>percussion cap
>nest of bees
You're so right anon.
>>29523608
Would be funny in second half of 19th century.
>>29523641
>every other alternative.
>>29523696
Jesus Christ you're stupid.
>>29523735
prove it
>>29523744
can't argue with dubs
>>29523650
>every other alternative.
I'm sure Custer agrees with you...
>>29523696
>makes a retarded blanket statement
>calls someone a grammar Nazi for calling him out on an idiotic statement entirely unrelated to grammar
Or did I get caught in a shitpost?
Land mines
>>29515733
1886
http://www.bighornarmory.com/catalog/big-horn-armory-products/model-89-carbine-500-sandw-2/
S&W 500 lever.
>>29518305
Yeah because Fox is fucking stupid. It has nothing to do with your shitty autism about guns.
one answer
>>29524931
>cancelled after one season
>enough backlash to earn a month movie
>cancelled futurama
>picked up by comedy central
>cancelled family guy after 50 episodes
>realized they we're retarded for once
>arrested development, Sarah connar chronicals etc etc etc
Meanwhile they run the Simpsons I to the ground and I'm amazed they didn't kill king of the hill after 20 minutes
Winchester 1895.
They made it in .30-06. They made it in 7.62x54r. That's right, bitches, you could have a badass rifle in a cheap powerful caliber..
>>29525176
go back to shitposting in /pol/
1887 mares leg.
or a henry big boy in glorious 45-70
>>29528622
I bet the rifle is like 2 grand
>>29528622
>levernugget
>>29528680
Closer to 5 grand these days. Nobody has made them in a century and they don't get sold often.
>>29528622
Or you know a Browning BLR or Henry Long Ranger in case you don't want to pay out the ass for an antique just to throw shitty corrosive ammo
>>29515793
Have one in .44 Mag with the saddle ring.
>>29529353
No spitzers, spire points, or round noses for you, fuccboi.
>inb4 lever-ution
No good ammo for you, fuccboi.
>>29529948
So you are in fact too stupid to have looked those up or you would know they're both made with box magazines and also too stupid to know anything about spitzers in tubular magazines. Good job.
Are there any perks or benefits to a gun being a lever action or is it all style?
>>29530513
Sure- they handle better than your average bolt action rifle. They're thin, reasonably light, and you can pretty quickly. You can also top off the mag with the bolt closed.
Shortcomings? Easily damaged mag tube. Slow to reload fully. Some are hard to scope (ex: early 94's). Used to be cheap.
I always wondered why most lever action designers put the loading gate on the right side- left side would have been faster. Sorta like the loading gate on a single action revolver.
>>29530675
Considering how long ago most were designed it not surprising. Look how long it took for left handed charging handles to shop up. The earliest didn't even have wooden hand gaurds.
Would you rather retain with youre left want and load right
Switch hands to load with your left
Or just rotate the gun, retain it with your right hand, and rest the stock on your hip or armpit?
I was actually thinking the same thing the other day and it's less of an issue to adapt technique than it is to change that machining
>>29530883
I'd hold it with my right, load it with my left like a pump shotgun.
>>29531401
Welp, you still can, just flip it.
>>29530883
Yeah but why design and machine them like that in the first place? Could it be from lazy adaptation of bolt-action designs?
>>29515775
Not OP but That wasn't even funny. There's a lot of projecting and implications there to That came out of nowhere
>>29523082
You sure about that kid? I can hit a man sized target at 100 yards with a hand gun if I rest it. With a rifle its extremely possible to hit a target even at 200 yards with a 357 lever action.
>>29518132
>twirling the gun
I never understood this. Sure it looks badass, but it seems horrifically unsafe.
>>29533113
It's literally only ever used to show off.
>"wild west" shows at the turn of the 20th
>film/TV westerns
>ahnold in Terminator
>>29515733
sharps in .45-120
it has a bit of a kick to it.
>>29515733
Mares leg in .454 Casull
>>29515733
A .50 bmg heckler and koch repeater.
>>29529948
Browning BLR has a box mag that works just fine with spitzers, plus it's damn accurate for a lever action as well.
Granted, the guts off the thing look like something a Swiss watchmaker would put together.
>>29533959
I have mixed feelings about this.
>>29515733
Winchester 1887 mare's leg edition.
A 45-70 shooting this.
Every shot you fire is like firing six .45 revolvers at once.
Yes I'm shilling le obscure ammo but I'm doing it for free because it's unique.
>>29534427
That looks too nice to actually shoot.
>>29534447
Yea I don't think it's something you'd want to take to the range, cause of its cost and relative rarity.
Still, it's one of the best personal defense cartridges I've seen.
It'll turn your lever action into a shotgun. Best of both worlds. No over penetration, too.
>>29533836
also in the 2.5D shooter Marathon and its sequels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cXitbENwro
>>29534427
so the round breaks apart along those horizontal lines? how come this isn't more common?
>>29531678
Just about every gun made was designed with left hand retention right hand operation in mind until the 50s and 60s. Your strong hand does all the finesse work. Until box magazines and lefty charging handles or bolt releases came along it wasn't even a consideration. Not to mention rifles back in the say we're pretty damn heavy and long so balancing it with your left was probably a good idea
>>29533318
Losses point for the lack of sights, but looks waaaay better with a standard loop.
>>29534006
I dont because it's awful and everything on it has been done in a better more tasteful way somewhere else. I love that mossberg doesnt afraid of anything, but I'm just glad they decided to shit up their own design.
>>29534230
Looks better than the T-model
>>29533959
>>29534006
is it just me or is the trigger placement within the guard kind of weird? especially if your other fingers are supposed to be in the loop
