I bought a new Marlin 1895 Cowboy in May to add to my collection of Lever Actions. I couldn't handle the look and feel of the "Shotgun" buttstock. Sooo... I had it upgraded. It now looks and feels more authentic.


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I like that.

A lot.

Me too!

Doc

Have you shot it with heavy loads?

What a wonderful idea! First thing I thought of, was to have my 39A done the same way. Retro them pups!

Ok,so how did you go about the upgradeing?Did you replace the stock or cut and shape or ?? Looks good by the way.

I haven't had the chance to even shoot it yet. I just got back from working out of country and need to wait for the weather to clear.

I'm looking for a nice 39A to do the same with, so if there is anyone out there with a nice 39A for sale, let me know 'cause I want one.

I thought I could have the stock cut for the crescent, but a custom stock maker said it would be too short, which makes sense. I found a gentleman in Golden Colorado that ordered the stock and crescent, fitted them and finished both the buttstock and forearm to match with a nice hand rubbed finish. He did an excellent job and for a resonable amount. I'm very happy with the outcome!

These folks have semi-finished buttstocks and forearms for a variety of Marlin CAS conversions. No experience, but they look good and are reasonably priced.

http://www.precisiongunstocks.com/index1.html

I finally got to shoot the 1895 Cowboy with the new crescent buttstock. I don't have much meat in my shoulder so it kicked pretty hard and will have to make some adjustments for protective padding. But it fit well and handled well. I did nail two Javelinas on my South Texas hog hunt last week. This is a young sow.

I too have a Cowboy 45-70, that is a nice looking conversion, something to think about!, who did the fitting?, Iam in Agate Co.

That really looks great! Worth the effort and expense I'm sure.

An old retired friend of mine that lives in Golden did the work. He squeezed mine in between his other projects and had the rifle for 5 weeks. You should be able to find someone in your area to do the work for you. My cost was $150 for the parts and $350 for his labor.

Below is a website for a gentleman that I am considering for a future project that requires checkering.

http://www.cgm-gunstockcheckering.com/

Nice looking rifle! Do I see a few pieces of corn by that little piggy??

I love it! Now that's what a Cowboy should look like. I'll bet that pint sized pig thought he got hit with a freight train.

As you can see in the photo, the bullet entered just under her left eye. It exited out her left side with most everyuthing else with it. She was quite a mess. I showed this side out of respect for the animal. Remington 300 gr. off the shelf.

I've added a MVA Creedmoor tang sight since. I'll post a picture when I can get a good one.

My Century Limited on the bottom has a crescent buttstock, and I have found the shape is not punishing even with a .45-70 Govt push.

Something about that cowboy 24" octogon bbl. begs for a crescent pad.

I suggest you stick with black power era velocity loads. I had a Winchester hi wall Legacy ( crescent butt) a while ago that was a pussycat with said loads. Stoked with really stout loads under heavy bullets, it just plain hurt. And I always thought recoil did not bother me, but I found some that did. Changed that bugger out for a rifle with a SG butt!!!!! Jack

I've been thinking about doing this with my 1894 CB LTD. Just can't make-up my mind.

sounds like a shotgun butt with a recoil pad.

you never mentioned your rifles caliber,but Im guessing 45/70?

Looks awesome! I love that classic look!

Have a couple H&R's with the bufalo classic stocks. Really like the look. One day i'll make a custom lever gun and it will have that type stock.

We can all agree that curved butt plates look swell. I like longer barrels on lever action guns. I have several original Winchesters with the same configuration, but the Model 1895 in .405 is the least comfortable lever I have ever shot by a wide margin. I would hesitate to put a curved butt plate on a .45/70 for the same reason. There are some amazingly powerful factory loads available that would not be fun to shoot at all.

love the looks of it, but I run fairly stout loads in my .45/70, but all 3 of ours are guide guns (like mine so well, bought my bestest pard one, and figured my boys might need one too!)

always been a function over form guy, but do really like the look of your rifle

great thing about this gig, we've only ourselves to please with our choices.