Which company is better?
Specifically which one of them makes better 45-70 lever action rifles?
Marlin vs Winchester
Alexander Bell
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Hunter Ross
my experience, winchester lever action rifles are a complete cunt to own. nice to shoot, but if you're the kind of guy that cleans his gun more than once per year you are going to want something like a marlin
Jack Collins
Not OP, but if someone wanted a first lever action that shot something more substantial than .357 or .44, a Marlin would be ideal since it's easier to take down?
Kevin Hill
Marlin. Winchester rides on nostalgia. Henry, Marlin, and Browning are top of lever action. Winchester can make them but their designs are shit. and mossberg is well "special."
>Henry's feed system.
>Marlin for gate feed
>Browning for internal box mag
Ryder Gonzalez
yeah. biggest thing about the marlin action is with one screw removed, you can remove the bolt and it's still quite strong. I recommend it my guy.
Leo Richardson
The Marlin is an improvement of the Winchester design. Easier to clean, disassemble, and side ejection so mounting a scope is simple. That being said, I've heard that post 2007 Marlins the quality went to shit. I have a 2004ish model in 30-30 and its a very nice rifle, my favorite for hunting in the deer woods.
Jace Lewis
Both are wrong answers.
Grayson Brooks
>break action
only good if it has more than one barrel and is a shotgun
Jacob Gutierrez
that's a lever action retard
still looks awful
Jeremiah Scott
>I've heard that post 2007 Marlins the quality went to shit.
They did, and they’ve since come back over the last decade. I wish this would stop being propagated as current info.
Nicholas Stewart
>everything new is bad
looks pretty good to me, what's wrong with it?
Carson Myers
nothing at the moment. around 2010-2015 the quality was a shit but I will tell you, I was looking at some brand new production 336s and 1895s lately and it was one of the absolute very few marlins I have ever seen with the rear buckhorn mounted on the barrel completely straight. you don't see that every day.
Jonathan Wilson
the fuck? you don't need to disassemble a levergun to clean it
Hudson Williams
Marlins are terrible guns, closer to swords even, and they don't work at all if you take them out of the water.
Jackson Turner
Absolutely fukkin based
I wish Savage would reintroduce the 99 soooooo bad
Dominic Diaz
They had some trash years where QC went out the window.
I picked up a new one in 2017 and it was good to go
Bentley Martinez
Something fishy about this post....
Christopher Cooper
Marlin is better for .357 and 30/30
Henry is alpha for 45/70
If .22 anything will do
Austin Jenkins
>Henry is alpha for 45/70
>There are people who don't use 1895s for .45-70
Would you look at that?
Austin Collins
>Henry
>still uses loading tubes
Cooper Moore
>If 22 anything will do
Except Chiappa, whos products are almost universally subpar
Levi Ross
If .22 find an old Stevens.
Tyler Torres
Do Winchesters have nicer fit/finish or actions or anything like that to justify the price outside of the name?
I was thinking of picking up a Winchester 1892 in .357 for aesthetics, but if a Marlin or Rossi is functionally as good or better out of the box I'll stick with that.
Ian Reyes
>and side ejection
:(
Xavier Morgan
How do you do, fellow savage 99 poster
Adam Brown
Enjoy thumbing that last boolit into the gate you peasant
John Ortiz
do not buy a new marlin
Brandon Wright
maybe an old marlin, but do not buy a new one. this one had never been shot and was put in a closet for 3 weeks, rusted to shit and the finish is gonzo. the Henry 30_30 next to it had nothing wrong
Charles Martinez
mind you, the old guy that had it took a brillo pad to it after the rust set in, but jesus christ
Ayden Cox
>tfw no model 99 musket
Carter Scott
and even if the finish wasnt painted on the sight is canted. avoid new marlin.
John Jackson
we got us a full-on retard right here
The thing about the Win94 is that it was designed NOT to be disassembled. It doesn't need to be disassembled. Clean out the barrel and put a little oil on the bolt where it contacts the receiver rails if you need to, but it doesn't need much more than that.
Joshua Reyes
yeah and you don't need to detail clean your AR that often either, doesn't mean anything. read my post again
>but if you're the kind of guy that cleans his gun more than once per year you are going to want something like a marlin