Lever gun caliber

[CAH]

If you had to choose, which caliber would you be going after for a lever gun to have in the truck/hunt with. I’m thinking 30-30, 45-70 or 45 long.

 

[Mountainrancher]

Depends on what your trying to hunt with it/what’s legal in your area. 30-30 is a great all around choice and 357 out of a 16+ inch barrel is pretty spicy. Those would be my choices

 

[massbigbore442001]

I am very partial to the 4570. Someone said it was a 150 yard sledgehammer.

 

[Truaxdw]

45-70 with a scout style scope

 

[CAH]

I’m going iron sights. Something about the classic western gun has me all jazzed up to spend some money. I think I’m slowly turning into a cow/doe hunter.

 

[FLATHEAD]

My next LA will be in .357

 

[TSAMP]

Let's say your a iowa resident, thinking about picking up a lever gun but it must be a smooth wall cartridge. I dismissed the .357 initially and was gonna jump to 45-70 but the ammo cost has me in tears.

 

[Elkfitness]

My dad had a 357 lever action growing up. Was always impressed with how accurate he was with those open sites on coyotes. Maybe it’s my love for westerns but always thought it was cool to be able to have a pistol and rifle in the same caliber.


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[B23]

I have a Win 94 Trapper in 357, 44mag, and 45LC. If I could only keep one it would hands down be the 44mag. If you're looking for a pistol caliber I like the 44mag over the others. In a rifle cartridge lever gun I like big boomers because they have a certain cool factor so I like the idea of a 45-70 and for short distances they hit like a brick but they also have the BC of a brick so if you think you'll be shooting 100yds or more the 30-30 would probably be a better choice.

 

[Laramie]

45-70 and shoot this - great shooting to 200 yards. With iron sights, that's a stretch.

https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle/45-70-government-325-gr-ftx-leverevolution#!/

 

[Laramie]

If you were scoping it, I would recommend 30-30 with this. Turns the 30-30 into a 250 yard point blank gun.

https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle/30-30-win-160-gr-ftx-leverevolution#!/

 

[ElPollo]

I will be the odd one and opt for a Winchester 95 saddle ring carbine in 35 Whelen with a climbin’ Lyman receiver sight. Thus far that gun has evaded me, but I haven’t given up.

 

[TxxAgg]

30-30

 

[Desk Jockey]

I still have two in 30-30 and a 22lr after selling down my levers When I stopped playing cowboy action shooter. the 22 is a plinker and the 30/30s are one With a scope and one without That I don’t hunt with much but can’t sell.

I miss my 357 the most. I would add a 45/70 or 44 mag to the stable if I spent more time in brown bear country. 45LC is nostalgia over performance. I would take a 44 mag and shoot specials before I bought another 45lc lever.

 

[Rich M]

357 mag or 3030 or 44 mag

 

[eddielasvegas]

My vote is for the 45-70. I have a Marlin 1895GS and love it. The 45-70 has been around for 150 years and was standard issue for the army in the late 1800's.


Eddie

 

[Holocene]

Old school: Winchester 94 angle eject, 30-30 Win, with a vintage Leupold M8 4x33 scope.

 

[FLS]

Marlin 336 in 35 Remington. Topped with a fixed 4x Leupold . 200 grain bullet loaded to the rifle / cartridges potential is powerful medicine. I’ve poleaxed a bunch of deer and hogs with mine. If it had to be straight wall, .444.

 

[sndmn11]

If you were scoping it, I would recommend 30-30 with this. Turns the 30-30 into a 250 yard point blank gun.

https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle/30-30-win-160-gr-ftx-leverevolution#!/

My brother and I took our grandpa's Winchester 94 out the other day with that and it was so much fun. Consistent on steel wolf at 300 yards and I was shocked. Has me doubting the 140 monoflex bullets, die set, and leverolution powder I bought. My magnetospeed showed it about 20fps faster than the box, and I think we might have been short an inch or two in barrel over what the box said.

 

[Team4LongGun]

45-70 hands down for me. I like the punch it gives, and subsequent ballistics.