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Purple! Because Ice cream has no bones!
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Mmmm, everything is better with pulled pork, this is a law of nature. You could have said pulled pork ice cream and I'd be all in!
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It's a tough life for ol Bosko
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Well....got another nasty winter storm inbound that is threatening up to 12" of snow, cold temps, freezing rain and 3 days straight of 45+ mph winds. I guess I'm as ready as I can be.
Us too! I added up all that they are predicting from Wed to Wed and now its up to 47.1". Wow! All I got left to do is bring some more wood inside. We've got quite a bit but a lil more be just fine. What caliber is the lever?
Huge lever fan they've been protecting homesteads for a bit now.
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Having dry wood piled up inside, warm and dry that you don't have to go out for is where it's at.
This one is only protecting the homestead from gnawing little rodents. It's a Henry youth model .22 but it has a few bigger siblings.
I agree. I absolutely LOVE lever guns. I've got a full size Henry. 22 that I'm not exaggerating when I say I've put at least 50,000 rounds through and it still will "hit a gnat's eye at 90 yards".
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We've got a couple of Henry .22s too. Bought one of the youth models for my son when he was 10 or so. Its been a great lil rifle and he still uses it now often even though he's 6'4" and 230 and 31 years old. Later bought one for the daughter as she loved the wife's Goldenboy so much. We were at the gun store and a guy was looking at this Goldenboy. He finally told the clerk that $500 was more then what he wanted to spend for a rifle for his kid so the clerk put it back up on the wall. It was near some $5,000 Italian shotguns but this lil Henry had better wood than they did. The wife asked to see it and while she was looking it over I told her if she didn't buy it I was gonna buy it and the clerk said well if you guys don't buy it I was thinking of buying it. She bought it. It truly has magnificent wood:
Like yours its a shooter:
She names her rifles and her Henry is Henrietta at the top and her Ubertti 1873 in .357 is named Bertie, bottom. Her Weatherby 6.5 Creedmore is Bad Ass Mamba Jamba. The lever in the middle is our other son's Malin in .45 Colt, it is unnamed.
She loves Henrietta just ask her, she'll tell ya.
See I love this gun!
My fav is a lil bigger. Browning back in the early 80s made a run of Win 1895s. I was able to snag one at a gun show a few years back in .30-06. It didn't have a whole box through it I don't think, it was pretty pristine.
Kind of interesting. I went on You Tube finding vids and reviews on 95s cause I couldn't figure out how to load the thing at first. Ya slide the rim of the cartridge under some lips in the attached magazine.
Ya then slide the round all the way to the rear and rotate it forward and it snaps into the mag. Interesting thing on many of the reviews I watched was how many said this is their favorite rifle. Not favorite lever but favorite rifle of all types. Its a shooter too.
Like yours its a shooter:
She names her rifles and her Henry is Henrietta at the top and her Ubertti 1873 in .357 is named Bertie, bottom. Her Weatherby 6.5 Creedmore is Bad Ass Mamba Jamba. The lever in the middle is our other son's Malin in .45 Colt, it is unnamed.
She loves Henrietta just ask her, she'll tell ya.
See I love this gun!
My fav is a lil bigger. Browning back in the early 80s made a run of Win 1895s. I was able to snag one at a gun show a few years back in .30-06. It didn't have a whole box through it I don't think, it was pretty pristine.
Kind of interesting. I went on You Tube finding vids and reviews on 95s cause I couldn't figure out how to load the thing at first. Ya slide the rim of the cartridge under some lips in the attached magazine.
Ya then slide the round all the way to the rear and rotate it forward and it snaps into the mag. Interesting thing on many of the reviews I watched was how many said this is their favorite rifle. Not favorite lever but favorite rifle of all types. Its a shooter too.
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The wood on that golden boy is amazing Dave. My boy has been wanting a lever action fora while, his 8th birthday is coming up and I'm gonna try to find one for him. We were gonna go to the big city today but between him running a fever this morning, the roads being crappy and it being 18 below we'll pass. I was hoping to pick one up today and sneak it in the truck somehow. I'm gonna check our sporting goods store in town and see if they have one.
Now, Roy can't usually find his shoes if they're on his feet but if you give him a safety rule or something about using a tool, he takes it to heart and remembers them exactly, a little too well sometimes as I get reminded if I cut towards myself or don't have my safety glasses on. Took one time to teach him muzzle awareness and boy you don't swing a muzzle too far without him noticing and calling you on it. His sister does great as well but she minds her business while Roy minds everybodies!
Now, Roy can't usually find his shoes if they're on his feet but if you give him a safety rule or something about using a tool, he takes it to heart and remembers them exactly, a little too well sometimes as I get reminded if I cut towards myself or don't have my safety glasses on. Took one time to teach him muzzle awareness and boy you don't swing a muzzle too far without him noticing and calling you on it. His sister does great as well but she minds her business while Roy minds everybodies!
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Good deal! Couldn’t recommend that youth model Henry enough for Roy. Hope ya can find one. My son used his as one of his truck guns for years when he went to cowboying right out of high school. He had that .22 and a 30-30 I gave him when he turned 18. Nowadays he uses a .17 and a .223. Both are bolt actions.
Thats great about the kids and their muzzle awareness. Lot of adults could learn from em. Roy might have a future as a range officer!
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I am a big fan of lever guns - a well made one just works and they feel awesome as well. Admittedly, though I have the affinity for them, I only have the one - a beat up Sears & Roebuck (Winchester Model 94). I love the damn thing though.
(old pic)
(old pic)
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Thats a great one Dylan and a great pic too. Very similar looking to the old 94 I gave my son for his 18th birthday.
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I was able to find some pics of that 94 I gave my son. Its got some honest wear and tear like yours and seen some use:I am a big fan of lever guns - a well made one just works and they feel awesome as well. Admittedly, though I have the affinity for them, I only have the one - a beat up Sears & Roebuck (Winchester Model 94). I love the damn thing though.
(old pic)
Funny thing bout this guy. Ya could aim it down and miss the ground if you were shooting 150 grain rounds through it. Change to 170s and ya could nail a paper pie plate at a hundred yards all day. I took it in payment for some $ I loaned a guy and he had taken it as partial payment for some tractor work he'd done for another guy. That guy had kept it in a wall rack next to a swamp cooler. Right side of the receiver has lots of rust spots.
Left side ain't bad:
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I was able to find some pics of that 94 I gave my son. Its got some honest wear and tear like yours and seen some use:
Funny thing bout this guy. Ya could aim it down and miss the ground if you were shooting 150 grain rounds through it. Change to 170s and ya could nail a paper pie plate at a hundred yards all day. I took it in payment for some $ I loaned a guy and he had taken it as partial payment for some tractor work he'd done for another guy. That guy had kept it in a wall rack next to a swamp cooler. Right side of the receiver has lots of rust spots.
Left side ain't bad:
I love that - something about honest wear on a rifle is pretty compelling and that scabbard, of course, is really nice! That rear sight is curious - looks like the breech bolt just misses it.
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Yeah thats one of those tang mounted Lyman rear peep sights Way better at longer ranges than the standard buckhorns. Yeah just misses it. forget which model of Lyman that is but it was designed specifically for the 94. Thanks on the scabbards. Most of my lever rifle pics are cause they are props for my scabbard pics. Make a lot of em. Sometimes I get cool customer shots too:
Another of the collection. A Browning BLR in .243:
Waiting for the hogs to show with the BLR:
There they are:
No shots that evening way out of range.
Another of the collection. A Browning BLR in .243:
Waiting for the hogs to show with the BLR:
There they are:
No shots that evening way out of range.
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There are many lever fans that favor the 336 over the 94. I belong to an informal club called the MLC, (Mojave Lever Crew). Guys there go gaw gaw over a 336 and kinda yawn over a 94. Ruger is suppose to release the new ones this spring.
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I like them both but I am particularly partial to the 94.
I have a somewhat funny story (at least I find it amusing). I have a brother who is in the Army. Seeing that we grew up on a farm and spent many a day running around and playing cowboys and Indians with stick guns and knives, many of us have an enduring fondness for the classics.
He decided that he needed a lever gun so he went and bought himself a beautiful Marlin 336. At this point, he had been in the military for close to 15 years, multiple tours, etc. We went to the shooting range and he brought his Marlin so that we could have a faux "shootout" - his 336 against my beat up 94. We set the targets up with the idea that we empty the gun as quickly and accurately as possible and then score the targets afterwards. We get to shooting and I put all my rounds downrange - I set my rifle down and glance over at him. He looks frozen in his shooter's stance, visible confusion on his face. It then dawns on him and he quickly worked the lever to eject his spent shell and chamber another round - he then sets it down and has a good laugh at himself.
After his first shot, he kept repeatedly squeezing the trigger and having nothing happen. Years of training on automatic weapons made it to where a lever gun momentarily stymied him.
Also, this is a fun book if anyone is looking for reading recommendations.
I have a somewhat funny story (at least I find it amusing). I have a brother who is in the Army. Seeing that we grew up on a farm and spent many a day running around and playing cowboys and Indians with stick guns and knives, many of us have an enduring fondness for the classics.
He decided that he needed a lever gun so he went and bought himself a beautiful Marlin 336. At this point, he had been in the military for close to 15 years, multiple tours, etc. We went to the shooting range and he brought his Marlin so that we could have a faux "shootout" - his 336 against my beat up 94. We set the targets up with the idea that we empty the gun as quickly and accurately as possible and then score the targets afterwards. We get to shooting and I put all my rounds downrange - I set my rifle down and glance over at him. He looks frozen in his shooter's stance, visible confusion on his face. It then dawns on him and he quickly worked the lever to eject his spent shell and chamber another round - he then sets it down and has a good laugh at himself.
After his first shot, he kept repeatedly squeezing the trigger and having nothing happen. Years of training on automatic weapons made it to where a lever gun momentarily stymied him.
Also, this is a fun book if anyone is looking for reading recommendations.
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Snowmobiling and split boarding in Idaho. It was nice down in the meadow but was almost whiteout up on the mountain. I love getting out in the backcountry here.
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The new sleds are something else! My recent acquisition is a bit more modest, lol. Not bad at $350 for a working sled WITH tilt trailer though! 
Mainly a fishing sled, but it would be right at home on the trails here!
Mainly a fishing sled, but it would be right at home on the trails here!