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Okay, admittedly this is a twist on a topic we've all hashed out before at length, but with Christmas coming so soon, I was doing a little day-dreaming on what I would get if money was no object.
With that parameter - money is not an object, what LEVERGUN would you get - and why?
Me - an original Winchester 1873 rifle marked "One of a Thousand" - in pristine condition!!!
Why - because the character I got my nickname from won one in the western series I read as a young man. I just always though it would be so cool. "Winchester '73" with Jimmy Stewart only helped make this desire more intense!!!
Oddly enough, just a stainless WWG CoPilot in .457 WWM - though I'd ask for a 20" unported bbl.
Kitted out in Kevlar just like this one - maybe even with scope just to see if I can use it.
I ain't fancy.
Then I'd see if I could get my 92 made into a Take Down and furnished with a custom kevlar stock too.
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
A Spencer in either rifle or carbine version...one that saw action during "The Late Unpleasantness" and in original chambering/configuration. Oh yes, but still in good enough shape to put a couple or rounds downrange once in a while.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
Not so much the type of gun, but I would like to own a levergun with some history behind it. Something owned by Teddy Roosevelt or Bill Cody for example (I can think of many more). Being a caretaker of history and knowing I would be passing it along to another levergunner when I leave this earth would give me great satisfaction.
asking santa for; 1895 src. 30-06, rossi m92 src. .357, blunderbuss. i haven't been a good boy at all this year, so santa willl probablly leave me his usual gift or a lump of coal. maybe next year
A new Model 62A Winchester in its brown cardboard carton (the one with the red and blue printing showing a camper, canoe in background, in a semi-prone position about to pot a tin can with his Model 62) to replace the one I found under the tree
Christmas morning in 1950. I sold it more than 30 years ago to buy a Model 77 Ruger for one of my boys. I'd give a lot to have that pump gun back...
OH, MY! The Model 62A ain't a lever action rifle. I apologize, but it's still all I want for Christmas...
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Riamh Nar Dhruid O Spairn Lann
- motto on the Irish Regiments' flags
kirkwood wrote:Not so much the type of gun, but I would like to own a levergun with some history behind it. Something owned by Teddy Roosevelt or Bill Cody for example (I can think of many more). Being a caretaker of history and knowing I would be passing it along to another levergunner when I leave this earth would give me great satisfaction.
That sounds like a great request to me...
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-Mark Twain
Proverbs 3:5; Philippians 4:13
Got to have a Jones for this
Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
If money were no object.....I'd get them all!
Turnball 73 , 76, 85, 86, 92, 94, 95, 55, 64,....and anything else
that struct my fancy.....but...we can only dream!
A gift certificate for Cabela's Gun Library, written out for 10 Winchesters, my choice.
Kirk: An old geezer who loves the smell of freshly turned earth, old cedar rail fences, wood smoke, a crackling fireplace on a snowy evening, pristine wilderness lakes, the scent of
cedars and a magnificent Whitetail buck framed in the semi-buckhorn sights of a 120-year old Winchester. Blog: https://www.kirkdurston.com/
Right about now, I'm investigating another extra lightweight .45-90 and if it turns out to be "right" I'll put it under the tree for myself.
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged"....President Abraham Lincoln
It certainly is pretty, but I guess I'm just a working-class guy when it comes to guns.
Yes, I have some odd ideas about serious working guns, and the one I really want would probably cost about $20K to build... but that's only because nobody does the combination of calibers/guages/materials I want.
Give me 100% reliable, solid, shooters that you won't really worry about dragging through the dirt/brush - that won't rust at a light mist - and I'm a happy camper.
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
OI - though not in SS, and it has a ported barrel, Mine is one of my favorites and the scope is very handy in fading light. I don't think I would trade mine and that is saying something for me!!!
As to my request for Christmas - I would have my 1893 in a takedown version, 30wcf. Other than that, I would not have any idea as to what lever gun to ask for, I think I have every basis covered and am nearly satisfied with the ones I have in .22, .357, 30-30, 457/45-70. Contented I am
Mike Johnson,
"Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
I would really like an original Win. 95 Carbine in 30-06 or 30-40...wouldn't even have to be in excellant condition, just good bore and in shootable condition.
A turnbull built. 1886 takedown with 32 inch octogon barrel, 3X wood and color casehardened finish. A gold inlay on the non-loading gate side of the Winchester Horse and rider. Chambered with front halves in 50-110, 45-90 and 475 Turnbull. You did say cost was not a consideration ---- correct??
not real greedy, a new marlin 45-70 cowboy with the safty replaced by the blank screw. or a quigley sharps, in 45-110. (of course the latter would also require 1000 cases)
Well a 1886 in 45-90.Half Octagon/round barrel 24" with half mag.Colored casehardened receiver with engraved goldleafed Grizzly.Ol'Lyman steel peep rear.Flip front sight Gold/Ivory blade.French Circassion stock wood.Mark Lee's express blue for the metal
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."
