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A Marlin ManLicker

Ricci.WrightRicci.Wright Member Posts: 5,127 ✭✭✭✭
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Marlin Model 336 - 1893 Takedown Rifle, 30-30, 26” Octagonal Barrel - Lever Action Rifles at GunBroker.com : 894609712

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  • danielgagedanielgage Member Posts: 10,588 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2021

    what was the reason for making forearms( Mannlicher style forstock) like this?

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  • ridgleyartridgleyart Member Posts: 937 ✭✭✭✭

    That's a pretty cool gun, and not something you see every day.

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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭

    I hate to say this but that is ugly.


    A lever action rifle has great lines and I think the Mannlicher style forend ruins it.


    Someone will like it though.

    RLTW

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  • Ruger4meRuger4me Member, Moderator Posts: 3,864 ******

    Not sure i'd call it "ugly" but it does seem like a waste of wood and hides the look of an octagon barrel imho.

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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,892 ✭✭✭✭

    Fugly!! 100% fugly!! I love the style of a lever gun, love the simple lines and really like octagon barrels. Is there any rifle that carries nicer than a lever gun?? Having said all these good things about lever guns, that lever gun is still fugly!!

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  • Butchdog2Butchdog2 Member Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭✭

    A question was asked, "why put a Mannilicher on a firearm".

    Someone please give a reasonable and useful answer. Inquiring minds need to know.

    Yes, fuggly on a lever gun.

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  • danielgagedanielgage Member Posts: 10,588 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2021

    only thing I have found is that some mountainous folk thought it helped using the rifle for walking staff

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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,392 ✭✭✭✭

    I always heard ? the full length stocks were to help protect the barrel

    Doc ( RIP ) seemed to have a fondness of such stocks posted more than a few of his rifles with that style other than looks he may have been a better source as to way

    I did get a 10/22 rifle with one just because of Doc posting his photos I never liked them but his photos got me interested to at least get one

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  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,195 ✭✭✭✭

    When you want to be Daniel Boone , with a lever...

    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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