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

Mine would be my great grandfather's 1873 Winchester 32-20 what was stolen when I was a kid.

My second choice would be a Marlin 336RC Marauder in 35 Remington. I have owned two of them, but had to sell both during hard times.

Always fond of my 99's in 250-3000.

Marlin with a strait grip stock in 7/30 waters

Can imagine a few "dream" levers. Some have gotten to try, some I never will.

Hard to beat one of these, pointability-wise, in the end. Nor is 300SAV often "wrong".



This 1893 in 30WCF trumps it in nostalgia, but for functioning dream rifle, the model 99 is it for me. Ditto the Win 1873 - would love to have one to shoot around, but carry and chambering-wise... model 99.

It took me a while but I found my dream leaver action and before I knew it, it was on the way to my dealer. Love the way it shoots and handles. It is chambered for the 308 Winchester, which is my all time favorite cartridge and it is short enough to be very handy in the places I hunt. The fact that is was made in Belgium, kicks it to the top of my list of lever actions. This BLR is as close as I will get to the BLR I sold years ago, like an idiot, and will be one that ends up in my estate.

Winchester 1895 in 405 win is what floats my boat.

A Winchester M/88 in .358, I killed my biggest whitetail buck with a .308 M/88.

Looking at your muskets I always thought one of the model94 NRA muskets would be a fun cast bullet silhouette rifle.

Savage 99 250-3000
Been thinking I'd like a Henry Long Ranger rebarreled to .257 Roberts.

I am impressed with the number of people that like Savage 99's and there are some nice ones being posted. They weren't very popular in the 60's in SE Georgia when I was growing up and I never saw one until I went to a gun show in Atlanta. If I ever knew that Savage made a 99 Musket, I forgot it. That is a cool looking rifle.

I never have been all that excited about the Savage 99, even though I know they are fine rifles. I am not really sure how I ended up with 4 of them. One of my 99's I kind of like, but I think it is because it is in 308 Win and that is my favorite cartridge. The 30/30, 22HP and 300 Sav, just don't do anything for me at all. I'm probably going to hang on to the 308 and let the others slide on down the road one of these days to make room for something else.

I love Savage 99's but only in the Savage cartridges. I'm anal like that. My son called me from NC a month or so ago and told me he got me an unmolested EG in .300 for only $350. Said there was a D&T'd .250 at the same pawn shop wearing a Leupold for $550. I told him to get his butt back there and snag that .250. He couldn't get back for a couple days and of course that .250 was gone. Damn!

I never thought of a dream rifle as such. There have been a few that I wanted but most of my rifles I just ran across at a time that I could afford one. I was lucky enough to purchase a Winchester model 71 Deluxe in excellent plus condition. I almost wish it was worn a little, so I would feel a little more comfortable with it in the woods. I do use it when the weather promises to be good and the going not too rough. I got a real nice 8 point a few years ago with it and that has been one of my more memorable hunts. I love hunting with vintage firearms.

I always thought a Savage 99T in 35 REM would be a great gun, if they existed and I could afford one......

I don't know if it's my dream lever rifle or not, but it's close and I probably should have bought it. I passed a mint condition, original pre-64 Winchester M88 carbine in 308 at a local gun show a couple weeks back. Price was in the ballpark given condition. I still have his card......

How about a winchester model 95 in the .33 hi power.The reason I have been looking is I would like to replicate a goat hunt that was written about in 1905.The hunters in "Campfires in the Rockies"used this round for this purpose.In 1905 it was state of the art.I hunt the same unroaded basins these days and have killed goats there with my scope sighted .270. It would be great to try to replicate one of the old pictures...it is doable,there are lots of goats

I'll bet that if John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Chuck Connors, and all the other silver screen and TV screen heroes had toted Savage lever guns instead of (mainly) Winchesters, there would be an exact reversal in order of the guns mentioned in this thread.

How about that fancy Savage Robert Duvall had in Joe Kidd?

What, no mention of that tactical 30-30 Mossberg offers?

Not my Savage muskets, I was just lucky enough to see them and snap a couple of pics. My house is probably worth less than that musket.

The 2nd 1895 musket is in the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody. Not mine either, unfortunately.

A friend of mine has an '86 Winchester with a list of options. Condition is VG with case colour still on the receiver.

- Upgraded wood.
- Checkering
- Shotgun butt
- 1/2 magazine
- 1/2 round bbl with taper
- Upgraded sights
- 45-90

Owner has a letter from Winchester archives. Gun matches the letter to a tee. That would be my dream lever gun.