Apologies for the ambiguous use of the word "old".
My father was born in 1902, and his father in 1866. GGrandfather was born in 1825. The rifle was taken on a trip on a steamboat up the Rosebud River in the days of Custer and General Crook. It came to me with a set of buffalo horns from that trip. Family rumor has it that it was also accompanied by a Sioux headdress at one time, but I've never seen it. The rifle went through a cabin fire in the early 1900s. It was junk when I got it. Eighteen months and $2000+ later it is back to new condition.
I've got the start of the dream, but someday need to make it happen.
I have a 1920 vintage 94. It a Saddle Ring Carbine that's not had it's ring for longer than I've known the gun. Dad got it in '69 when Grandpa passed away. It has always been very rough and in the mid 70's I "restored" it, trying to refinish it and reblue the metal. Fortunately the finish doesn't look much different than it did with the exception of the bands and buttplate, which need some love. However, the wood is trash. I'd love to be able to find some correct pattern wood for it and fix the home made front sight blade.
Other than fixin up our old one I think the Marlin Guide Gun pattern is a neat package, especially when it's a large bore. I've seen a few and have been tempted, but "I have this ol thurty-thurty..."
This is the second thread about a lever recently. Guess I need to go bust up a few soup cans.
Decades ago I remember a magazine article about a guy that converted some caliber of a lever gun into a 45 acp . It could have been a gun smithing magazine.
Link to the thread?Let's see if I can't put a little wind into @CountryGent thread.
Correction: 1919 vintage Winchester 1894 SRC. Ser# 872,xxx.
A while after I wrote this I stumbled onto a front sight blade for that old "thurty-thurty". A brand new Marbles with the ivory bead. It got me so excited that I actually started a thread about the gun. I was hoping to go shoot it today, but we're taking advantage of a very lazy Sunday, something that's very rare for us.
Anyway, I got it all taken apart and cleaned up. Then I decided not to change the wood. I fit the buttplate where it over hung the wood and called it good. I've ordered some cold blue from Brownells and that is supposed to be here tomorrow. I don't know how far I'm going to go because I believe this gun should show some wear, but I'm wanting to purdy it up some.
I'm really happy that I got it out and dusted it off. I'm actually more excited to use this for deer season that that nice ol Model 70 I put together...
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Last summer or the summer before A silencer company was demoing silencers for their sales staff. I horned in and was educated by their great engineers. They had Ars Various bolt actions up to 338 Lapuas and a SAW ,that was fun to watch them run the gun and ,and ,and !!! Noooooooooooooo A silenced Marlin lever action.I told them that was a no, no and it was gun blasphemy but they demoed it any way. It should be a law requiring silencers on most guns.
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