I had to. After shooting Evil Jim’s that bloody thing just wouldn’t get out of my head.
I had to join the Guide Gun Club. So I looked at what we had at the gun shop and I picked out this little thumper. It’s nothing fancy at all, just a Marlin 1895GBL in .45-70. It’s going to do just fine for my needs. The Guide Gun has always been a gun I’ve wanted since I’ve had just about all the others. Finally got my own.
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I might have to order some Wild West Guns sights for it… but other than that, I’m keeping it nice and simple and stock. No rail, no red dot, no “Tactical”. Just Old School Thumping Power. Gotta love it.
CONGRATS!!!
Beautiful Thumper, Caryn prefers that laminated brown to the laminated black/grey on her SBL.
The WWG protected Ghost Ring sights are a thing of beauty.
http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=16632/sku=981-100-095/Product/WPM-95-Sight
All business.
Occasionally I worry about my unprotected ghost ring, and just hope it stays in good shape.
Cant wait to get together and have a 3 way .45-70 blast session.
Jim
Like…an ABL for me to go with my SBL?
I have sights from this guy http://www.skinnersights.com on my 1895cb, If I were doing up a guide gun I would have sights from him on it as well.
+1…got his sourdough front / aperture rear on my Marlin 336.
yes, you had to do it..
Very nice.
I am of the opinion that lever actions are best served old school.
Did you find an older one or did you pick one from the current batch of dubious Marlins?
Mine is a new one… The best of the worst you could say. I went through what we had. It’s going to take some work… But I’ll get it to run right.
I have a rail with a light on my 1895M and the light is worth its weight in gold.
I used to own a very early 1895 that had the 18″ ported barrel and was in .450 Marlin. IMO the early .450’s are the guns to get. The guy I sold it to is a very good friend and gave me buy back rights. I never would’ve sold it but I had a quite large VA debt that was cutting into our living expenses.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure my 1895M was one of the first .450s made, and it has the best wood I have ever seen on a Marlin.
Well the good news is there are a lot of parts/after market parts for Marlins and a big data base on how to fix and tune them. A .45 -70 buddy of mine has said that with the modern ammo they have for them now a tune up short barreled lever action can really reach out an touch something if you can read your ranges right. He said he cheats these days and uses a laser range finder for the long shots by getting ranges for different points where he think deer might show up. His reaction to my comment about overkill for the small deer we have around here was he’s never had to track one through the brush. They tend to drop where they are hit. I’d like to see a study on how those Hornady rounds do on auto bodys and barricades.