Ok, it's time to see lever action kills

[Bob Wright]

Great thread!
I bought mine so long ago at $69 at a government surplus store in Phoenix. 30-30 model 94. I have no old deer pics but now I need to drag it out of the back of the safe and see if I can still shoot it.

 

[Muddyboots]

I am finding out the 1954 Mod 94 iron sights are a struggle for my cataract replaced far sighted lens.

 

[wv270wsm]

Killed this 260 lb boar in our December season with the 35 rem. He did take 3 slugs from it before expiring. But that was mostly due to me making sure he didn't come out of the tree and try to jump on the dogs tied back

 

[Mberline]

Do you use that .35 Remington for prairie dogs too?

I never have. Would get pretty expensive to shoot that much!!

 

[Calvin45]

I stand to inherit my dad's marlin 336 .30-30, hopefully a long time from now. He bought it in the 70s after the original win 94 he owned before that was lost in a capsizing canoe incident "up north" and has actually always preferred the marlin since.

My wife stands to inherit her dads Winchester 94 30-30, also obviously hopefully not for a long time. It was his dads before him, also made somewhere between 54 and 57.

At present I have inherited a great uncles savage 99 in .243.

I have 3 boys, ages 5, 4, and 2 At the moment. I really like the thought of each of them having a "family levergun" passed on the them.

As for my little girl (also two, twins)…ah who am I kidding, she can have all the other guns! . She's the most carnivorous of the bunch, wouldn't surprise me if she was the most interested in hunting.

 

[Indian Outlaw]

With recent threads on 30/30, I am now on a mission to tag a deer this year with my Dad's Winchester 30/30 serial number built in 1954. I think he would look down and smile. Loaded 170 flat nose and good to go!

So let's see those lever action kills whether 30/30, .35 Rem, 32 Spl.

If you are wearing buffalo plaid so much the better!

338 Marlin Express

 

[Ol' Red]

I never have. Would get pretty expensive to shoot that much!!

Just work it in with other rifles that are cheap to reload for. I slide my .338 Win Mag in with the .223. It's just fun to watch those prairie dogs fly through the air or just explode.

 

[Hand Skills]

One of the most dramatic kills I have witnessed on a skunk was with my .308 BLR (lever action). On impact the animal appeared to jump 3-4ft straight up into the air, and executed most of a backflip before landing motionless in a cloud of dust. No photos, but that was a memorable one for me!


Many years ago, I thought a friend of mine needed something better than the old .303 British that came with his farmhouse when he bought it. One of the worst shooting rifles I have ever seen - couldn't keep 3 on a sheet of plywood at 50yd... So I gave him a Model 94 in 30/30.

A few years later when my friend expressed interest in deer hunting, I offered to lend him a rifle with a scope on it, but despite the limitations of iron sights, he elected to use his own.

We hunted together for several years consecutively, and he always filled his tag - here is a big old Saskatchewan whitetail my friend took with his 30-30 a couple of years back.

 

[Charles Keethler]

Pretty

 

[akdad]

Don't have a picture but I shot 2 or 3 moose with my 450 marlin blr and one with my 270 blr. I don't remember why I took the 270

 

[wvbearhunter]

My sons first deer. JM Marlin 357 mag with a handloaded 180 grain ranch dog projectile with a max load of H110. He shot it right beside the left eye at 45 yards with open sights. I asked him why and he said....I didnt want to track it for 2 hours like we did with yours