Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles What is your dream lever action rifle?

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In a pre- Remlin with proper chamber/throat and bore dimensions.

There are certainly some high end collectible Winchesters and Savages that I'd cheerfully kill for, but thinking realistically, I wish I'd bought one of the Marlin 338 MX's when they were making them. Would also love to find a cherry Savage 99 .22-250.

I really like my Marlin 1895 that Wild West Gun did a lot of work to. It was a guide gun BEFORE their were guide guns. I would still like to have a Marlin 1894 in 44 Mag With the Pistol Grip. I've got the straight grip, but the pistol grip appeals to me.

Although a Winchester mod 64 would be a close second. 30 WCF would work for me.

I have 2.

A Winchester or Browning M95 in 30-40 Krag.

A Browning BLR take-down in 7-08 with the pistol grip.

I would want an 1895 in 405, 30-40 or 30-06. A Savage in 284 would be up there too.

1979 Savage 99e in .308. It has a Weaver Classic K4 on it now in Weaver Top Mount rings. Was planning on restocking it in Walnut, but decided against it. It's fairly accurate, and has nice balance. 22" barrel is handy enough for crawling through the brush and the birch press checker stock is PERFECT for crawling through that same nasty brush(I mean go head and scratch it, doesn't bother you in the least!!!).

Wanted a 99 the first time I saw one in person(1994, not very many of them in my area) when I was 19, THAT was a 99c...but this one is MINE and that makes all the difference.

I have a model 64 deluxe in 30-30.Dad did some saddle work for a guy in trade.

Model 88 in .243.

Owning a piece of history like Teddy Roosevelt's Winchester 1876 in 45-75 would be a nice place to start.

One of the Sako Finwolf in .308

Matte stainless Marlin 336 20" in 7-30 Waters

1894 CS SS

I'd go with this. I had one for a while, killed one deer with it. I got rid of it because it wouldn't feed 250-ish grain cast bullets.

Those with a shoulder or cheek out near the meplat wouldn't go into the chamber with one stroke of the action, I'd have to part-way chamber them, then partially open the action further to let them jiggle into line, then close the action.

It fed handloads with the Hornady 220 grain flat point just fine, though, and as a hunting rifle, those are pretty darn fine.

I'd take the same rifle in .30-30 if I could find one ... again at a price I was comfortable with.

Tom

After a decade of begging now and again, I finally got my uncle to part with this one last weekend "1894 Winchester 25-35"

Dates to 1908 and it's been in my family since day one, from what I'm told.

Overall pretty decent shape, action is tight and the bore is clean. Believe it started out life up near Lutsen, MN

I have one more project to complete which is a Savage 99 in 6.5-284.

Exceptional wood on your 1894CSS....I have the same rifle with plain wood with no complaints as very few stainless 1894's were built.

Doc

Browning BLR SS Laminated in 358 Winchester!

Tuff call I had a 94 30-30 with a rifle length octagon barrel that had a great hang to it and was probably the easiest rifle to shoot off hand I ever had. I also had a model 64A that was very nice but I believe I like the octagon barrel best. Both are gone now as my eyes just can't handle the open sights very well any more. I tried a marlin Zane Grey commemorative that had a octagon rifl length barrel that was nice though I liked the model94 better. It did lend itself to a scope but I just don't like a scope on a lever as to me they become top heavy and the handling characteristics are ruined. Ymmv.

I would like that in the takedown gun, with a fixed 4x Leupold on it.

A lot of great guns being mentioned here! Some of them I've had and more than a few I've foolishly passed on at one time or another. One that still smarts was an 1895 Winchester in .30-40 for $500. To be fair it was rough though.