Do any of your writers speak English?
Me wantee.
I had a Marlin 1895 in .45-70 back in the ‘70s. I could handload up to within about 18% of .458 Win Mag ballistics.
Talk about a kickin’ SOB but it sure hit with authority.
It was good old gun.
I wonder if the author knew Capt Whiley USMC (ret)?
It looks like a Marlin to me.
When I was a kid, I always loved lever action. I grew up and ended up with many firearms, as I’m an enthusiast. My first Winchester fed all the bullets at once into the receiver from the tube each time you dropped the lever. Each shot had to be loaded one at a time to fire it.
The second, a Marlin in .444 would not lift the next round into place. You could pull up on the lever, but it was locked. You had to unjam each shot with your finger.
The third, another Winchester, would fail to pull rounds out of the tube when the lever was dropped, about 60% of the time.
The final straw was an .44 Magnum Henry that never once successfully closed on a round, chanbering it. You had to guide each one into the chamber with your finger.
I don’t buy lever action anymore. I have never owned one that worked correctly, out of 4. 3 were new, the Henry was used, and all were garbage.
I own a Big Boy in .45 Long Colt so I can use the same rounds with the SA Army. Nice and convenient.
4+1 is excessive, should be 1+1. If you need more than two rounds to shoot a deer, you shouldn’t be hunting. And it boggles the mind that some lever guns can hold fourteen or more bullets. Shot after shot each time the thingy that goes down is worked, fourteen times. Nobody needs the devastating firepower of this hillbilly assault rifle.
/sarc
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