Some Beautiful Rifles in this article...

[ANDYLARSSON]

Boge Quinn, My friend and fellow shootist, asked another of our friends and Shootist's, Nick Rukavina to write an article about some very personal and beautiful leverguns some of us are shooting a LOT.

https://gunblast.com/Rukavina-Signature ... 8Jq5omT0XA

Its a good read and some amazing pictures. Please check it out and share your thoughts below. Caution... This post may cost you some $$$

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[Bill in Oregon]

Oh, man, there goes next year's tax refund ...
Andy, that aperture rear mounted on Boomer, the Winchester 94 -- how are those working out? Didn't know they existed. Are there any such sights available for the 92 and its clones?

[Griff]

I completely understand this sentiment to have a personalized firearm. 34 years ago, I found a Winchester 30-30 that was in the bargain bin at a local gun store, The store's owner had sold it to a feller that couldn't make it hit paper @ 5 yards. When I looked at it, it was missing the bead on the front sight, and rather than pass up a bargain, I offered the owner $100 for it. Seemed like he couldn't get a receipt written out fast enough!

I'd been wanting a Winchester 94 rifle, but it seemed like they were unobtainium at the time. I found an ad in the Numrich catalog for a 26" octagon bbl and forend set, cap & wood for a Winchester Commemorative. They found their way onto my rifle, along with a Fajen stock set up for a traditional Winchester curved buttplate. The receiver went off to WY for a bone & charcoal CCH finish, along with the forend cap. After getting the receiver back, the assembled action & barrel went off to Weatherby for headspacing, an art I knew little about at the time. I found a Smith Enterprises tang sight and reworked a globe front sight from Shiloh Sharps to complete the sighting picture. I took the post & ball out of the sight and filed the ball down flat half way thru. I now had a "T" post for a front sight. After developing a solid .30-30 load that shot to the same point of impact as my favorite hunting round, I had a rifle worthy of competing in long range events. I won several over the next few years. If you can't shoot good, you must look good! But havin' both is just extra special! I've bragged on this rifle here often enough, but can never pass up a chance to do so again!

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[Old Savage]

Nice rifles. Thinking of Jeff Quinn, I got one of the last 94, 25-35s Winchester made circa 2005 from him. Great shooter and a favorite rifle.

[gamekeeper]

I like to personalize certain firearms but have never gone the whole hog. There is just something special about making a gun a bit different from when it left the factory.

[Ysabel Kid]

My goodness those are stunning!!!

[marlinman93]

I have never named a gun in my collection. Just never had a reason beyond whatever history a gun had. Some are of course called by whatever history or provenance attached to them, but I never considered that a "name". My Ballard owned by General Charles Phillips is just the "General Phillips Ballard" and my Rolling Block owned by local Oregon Pioneer is simply the "EC Hackett Roller".
Those are very nice rifles, but in all honesty I'd rather see Marlin style color case hardened finish on them than the "Stevens" style tiger striped colors. The Stevens color case looks odd on a Marlin levergun to me.