Finally got a lever

[dirtyd]

I knew before I even parked that going into the lgs is dangerous. But I walked out with something I've wanted for a long time.

1956 Winchester 94 30-30

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[Basedgreaser]

Good buy man, lever is never a mistake, especially a 94

 

[GOG]

Ya' dun good. It's a classic and a deer getter from way back.

 

[titsonritz]

Oh cool, one of the good ones without the lame cross bolt safety.

 

[Kruel J]

That's a beauty right there!

 

[teflon6string]

Nice rifle Dirty D! I love the 94.

You know that I know that you know how to shoot it, but I have to share this...

I took a couple friends shooting in the coast range several years ago. Both guys knew guns and exhibited crisp range discipline. I had plenty of cheap ammo and told them to live it up.

But one had never shot a lever gun before (Marlin .357 mag) and due to MY failure to warn him, he banged/pinched a finger badly enough between the lever and the sharp new trigger that we needed a couple butterflies to close the wound. I was negligent for not showing him how to cycle rounds quickly and safely with the 1894. Put another way, I learned a humbling lesson with somebody else's blood on my weapon.

Ironically, he was on his way to the beach to play congas with his bar band. OUCH!!! He double-wrapped the hand, dulled the pain with a few sparkling adult beverages and dealt with it.

 

[dirtyd]

Has a mark here and there but overall I thought it was pretty clean. Paid $595.

 

[RVTECH]

Yep you did well - nice thing is you are four years into the factory D & T for a Williams Receiver sight (the two holes on the upper right corner of the left side of the receiver) which give you an option for a very nice peep sight setup. Expecting a range report soon!

 

[jbett98]

If you put the rifle into a fleece soft case that only unzips halfway, make sure you don't pull off the front sight hood.
They're easy to lose that way.

 

[01rednavigator]

Be prepared to be addicted to shooting lever guns! Of all the guns I have my Marlin 30-30 is probably my most favorite to shoot and probably the rifle I am most accurate with.

 

[jbett98]

Now you need to watch the old classic western movie Winchester '73, starring Jimmy Stewart

 

[Vendor Hidden]

Now you need to watch the old classic western movie Winchester '73, starring Jimmy Stewart

That movie was on TCM a few months back. I got a kick out of the guy who chickened out when injuns attacked him and his lady. Later on he shamefully confessed "I turned yeller!".

 

[RVTECH]

One leads to another!

 

[teflon6string]

Lever gun. The original "high capacity assault weapon" if ever there was one. Shhhhhh... don't tell the snowflakes.

 

[11Charlie]

One leads to another!
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I think that works for guns in general which is why we are all here.

 

[RVTECH]

That movie was on TCM a few months back.

Yep one of the best and one of my favorites. AND interesting as it was the first movie where an actor got paid a pittance in trade out for a % of the box office take (Stewart) - and it set a new standard for for the movie industry. Also W-73 was credited with being the 'classic' Western that set the standard for most all others (at least until the 70's killed the Westerns - for a while) Also it was the first time Jimmy Stewart played a very dramatic and serious character in a movie. And last but not least Herb Parsons 'The Showman Shooter' stood next to Jimmy in the street and actually shot the coins thrown in the air at the shooting contest.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

This is the last lever gun I own. It was my mom's deer rifle, back in the '50s! Old Jack O'Conner used to write that the .25/35 wasn't enough gun for deer. Made me chuckle, my mommy shot a big, Eastern Nevada mule deer every year for ten years, Jack!

 

[CountryGent]

Nice! I so love the classic Winchesters.

 

[jbett98]

My holy grail is a model 71 Deluxe.

 

[jbett98]

Check this out if you appreciate Winchester rifles.