Brought home another Winchester today! :)

[plastikosmd]

yep love the levers, got a bunch of Winchesters 30-30, couple 357s, 25-20, 22, 22mag, 50-110
just put some money down on my first marlin lever. old, abused 39a that needs a home and some tinkering

[RIDE-RED 250r]

yep love the levers, got a bunch of Winchesters 30-30, couple 357s, 25-20, 22, 22mag, 50-110
just put some money down on my first marlin lever. old, abused 39a that needs a home and some tinkering

That 50-110 an 1886 by any chance???

[plastikosmd]

ya, think I had it on here before, tuned up by turnbull. racking the action, u think you are cocking a howitzer

thinking of having the 25-20 done over also

[RIDE-RED 250r]

Yes yes.,... I do recall you posting it up at some point in one of your or my gun threads!!

BEAUTIFUL Turnbull 1886!!! Jealous as HEEEELLLL am I!! Love their color case hardening, looks like blue flames.

I would really like to get my hands on an '86 someday. They sure don't give those bad boys away...

[thcowboy]

Standard 39a? In other words, is it plain with a thick forearm?

[86waterpumper]

I have a 1972 marlin lever (.35 remington). It is getting hard to find that ammo too, everybody seems to just make .30 .30 mostly these days. Anyway for sure there is a big big difference in the new marlin production and the older ones. I would say sometime during the 90s is when things really got bad but things got worse when remington bought them out a few years back and they changed locations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi79kO51R4U


There is a guy on youtube showing a new marlin 39a and the rifling inside the barrel has chatter marks crossways in the bore from the tooling. It is really bad it looks like dozer tracks haha. If you deer hunted at close range it would probably make a big entry wound because the bullet would probably hit it sideways. The metal on the receivers is a different finish and color than the barrels etc. The wood also does not line up where it meets the back of the receiver good, and the wood if you can call it that on the new guns looks more like something on a kid's bb gun? I guess it is a laminate but it doesn't look real it looks plastic is the best way I know to describe it. Most of the barrels have even come out with the sights canted over towards the right. This guy on youtube had sent 3 guns back to the factory and gotten a bad one every time. I would find a older lever gun even if it cost more than a new one, unless you want something like a .45/70 guide gun which hasn't been made all that long. I think it was 1982 or 1983 when they started putting safetys on them, so I prefer ones older than that, but anything early 90s and older would probably be safe quality wise.

[RIDE-RED 250r]

Yep.. just like with many things, older is often better to some degree.

I love my newer S&W revolvers, but the older P&R models are just a cut above in my opinion. It's amazing to me that many older model Smiths bring as much or more than their current production sisters do NIB. Talk about retaining value!

[plastikosmd]

Not sure if u were askin me cowboy?

The 39 is an old one, don't have it in yet. Was plain and rather thick if memory serves

[thcowboy]

Not sure if u were askin me cowboy?

The 39 is an old one, don't have it in yet. Was plain and rather thick if memory serves

Probably is a standard 39a.

My dad has one and my uncles and grandpas have 39as and my grandpa has a golden 39a. Where a 39a family