What's your favorite lever action gun?

[JHC]

My Marlin 336 Texan .30-30. But it's close with the 18" slicked up 1894 .44 mag.

[luvmy40]

Marlin 336 in 30-30 is my only lever gun to date so I would have to say it is my favorite.
I "inherited"(read liberated) it from my Dad. It's a late 50's model.

[Artos]

Winchester Model 71 in a carbine w/ bolt peep...supergrade would be nice too. Wicked round.

[G woody]

Mine would have to be my Marlin 336 in 35 Remington.

I have a friend with two Marlin .35's from the early & mid-eighty's. Sunday I watch him shoot a 1/2" group @ 100 yds. (3 shots with reloads with the Hornady bullet. It wasn't a fluke. The 2 shots before he adjusted the scope were touching. He said the Hornady factory loads shoot poorly. He said the other Marlin shoots almost as well.

[Alaskapopo]

I'll get this started.

Mine is the Savage 99 because it can use pointed bullets unlike the lever guns with tubular magazines. The rotating magazine is also a brilliant design taken from Mannlicher and used for decades until it got too expensive to manufacture and Savage switched to a box magazine. That's why I am only interested in the older ones with the rotating magazine with round counter on the side.

What's your favorite and why?

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I don't like the lines of levers like the 99. I like traditional levers like the 94 Winchester.
Pat

[DTHN2LGS]

I don't like the lines of levers like the 99. I like traditional levers like the 94 Winchester.
Pat

I like the looks of the Marlin/Win. traditional lever actions too, I just like the design concepts incorporated into the Savage lever guns better. It's the same reason I like the Mauser Broomhandle pistols, it's the design features I go for, not it's practicality or looks (even though it does look cool). The Mauser goes together like a jigsaw puzzle, awesome design!

I used to work as a Gunsmith before, and I prefer the Marlins to the Winchesters, just a personal preference. My Marlin .45/70 Guide Gun was a great gun, I only sold it, and my Savages among others, when I went back to college and needed the money.

I expected everyone to have their favorite, it's the variety that make guns so interesting.

[Lost River]

My old Mountie .22lr tops my favorite list by a long shot:

[Lost River]

[matemike]

Marlin 1894's
Have the 1894C, blued in .357 with ghost ring sights. Dropped a ten point "like a sack of taters" at 75 yards with Buffalo Bore 158 gr. Gold dots

And I have a 1894SS in .44 with a 2.5-8x36 leupold. (silver) have yet to hunt with that one, but I know it is a great blaster! Looks good too.

[DTHN2LGS]

My old Mountie .22lr tops my favorite list by a long shot:

That Mountie reminded me of the Marlin 39 Century model I had, it was a great shooter too. I used it to kill a lot of game and varmints.