Thread: Lever action

I've had 3 levers. But all small ones compared to you lot.

Marlin mod 57M in 22 WMR. Nice little rifle but not that light. Shot most ammo Ok. Went in Late 1980's. Had a bad habit of retaining a round in the tube and then releasing it a week or 2 later.
Ruger mod 96/22M. 22 WMR. Used the 9 shot rotary mags. Had a trigger birthday and a silencer. I could put a mag load into 1.5" at 100 mtr of hornandy 30gr or Remington 33 gr. Got too expensive to feed.
Nice light, accurate, short throw leaver. A 44mag version was made for a couple of years.
Savage 99 in 243, on its second barrel, was dads now mine. Does need a full length resize each reload. I normally work my loads up to the max load in the book and then drop back 1.5-2 gr so I know I have some margin for error and hot weather etc.
only extraction problem I have had was old over worked brass head separation. When I looked at the other brass I could feel a groove inside the case with a pick. I shoot a lot of trail boss in it for short range goats. 58 gr Vmax at 2400 fps and 87 gr Vld at 2900 fps for deer.

What I dream of is one in 358win. Load some pistol rounds over trailboss and hit the goats.

Zane