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I like it but I think I would wait a year or 2 to make sure they worked all the bugs out.
The second video said it weighs a little over 5 lbs. and the owner's manual mentioned it being chambered in 357 magnum and 45 Colt so it looks like there's more to come.

It's growing on me. Maybe by the time the .357 comes out I'll be ready.

Instant collectors item, stack it right next to your 7-30 Waters!

Ruger can't even make enough Marlins to meet its own demand. That's what opened the door for Rossi and S&W to introduce new leverguns. My LGS can't keep any leverguns on the shelf and they can't get enough to please their customers. Somebody needed to plug the gap. My LGS actually took to selling Rossi's because they can actually get them

With the new age of long range, I don't understand the modern lever action craze.

I don't know anyone personally who gives a flip about long range shooting. Wouldn't even know where to go to attempt such a feat?

With urban sprawl and development, ranges are getting shorter, not longer for most hunters.

I'd buy one in a heartbeat if it was chambered in a .360 Buckhammer. I like it a lot.

.44 mag just doesn't do it for me.

Black & stainless ! looks good,

I always toss the factory firewood and go with McMillan of Manners handles anyway

If it was a 500 or 460 I'd be on it, even a 444 would be cool,

44 ? naw, pass

Good post; Barry.

Good to see ya!

Hope your week is going well up there!

Had a good rain for a change down here.

Why do you think someone else is making it for them?

Agreed

Allow me to pile on….😜

I see you’re in AZ, so your notion probably reflects that.

This past season I made my longest shot on a whitetail since the 80s, maybe 125yards. About a minute earlier, I shot another one at maybe 50, and a few weeks earlier, one at 7. The only reason I got the longest opportunity is that the DNR opened up a bunch of food plots that were previously head-high brushy fields. One of those plots may present a shot as long as nearly 300 yards, and I saw some like that earlier during the antlerless and archery season. I carry a rifle able to make such shots, but that’s because I prefer bolt actions; these days, lightweight ones using smaller cartridges. For most of the rest of that WMA, a lever action, even a .44, is a sound choice.

Don’t need one, but I’d like to check one out in person.

I'll introduce myself. Now you know someone that knows, cares, shoots long range. And short. Where? Wherever you get range. Of course I can't get a shot past 600 down south on our place but up north we can get long shots all over the place if we look. I prefer to close. But I also prefer to be prepared.

Hang together lest we hang separately

I meant I don't know anybody around here that does it. Of course I've never seen a range longer than 200 yards. I hear tell of a 1,000 yard range in Williamsport but never went there

Looks like a solid offering, but I will spend the same money and get a sleek older Marlin any day.

The older Marlins, even the Remlins, have 1-38” twist barrels, which may be an issue for some. I forgot to check that when I looked at this one, but 1-20” is kinda standard now. My 1885 Browning, about 30 years old now, maybe older, is a 1-20”.

S&W website shows the weight at 108.8 ounces. That's 6.8 pounds. https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/sw-model-1854-lever-action-rifle-44-magnum

That sounds more realistic. I should have double checked the S&W website. (I didn't think anyone read my posts.)