Tacticool Leverguns

[Gunny268]

This is about as tacti"cool" as I want to get at my age.

[taffin]

You are so right! Tactical is not an object it is a state of mind.

[bullseye]

NOPE.

[Aggie01]

I have a couple of Big Boy X's (45C, 44M). Love being able to hang a suppressor off the front of them.
I wouldn't be against swapping to wood stocks, but they are already heavy enough (7.5 lbs, IIRC).
I'm considering threading the octagon barrel on my new '92 in .45 Colt.
I also have a BLR in .308 with a 16" threaded barrel for suppressed fun. - stainless with gray laminate furniture.

I'll admit, if Ranger Point's butt stocks were about half the price they are, I would try one...

[gcf]

That's one of those things you just can't un-see, no matter how much you'd like to.
Think I need to go wash my eyes out - with bleach...

[jeffh]

I don't see how any of that "stuff improves the functionality or effectiveness of the gun in any way.

Ugly is one thing, pointless is another.

I once made a flashlight mount for a 16" Rossi 92 in 357 Mag and that was UGLY. I HATED looking at it, but it served a purpose and made the arm incredibly effective for what I was using it. We'd been overrun by 'coons on year (two, actually), when they had taken over a neglected out-building on a nearby property. It turned into a seething raccoon slum, teeming with about ten times the "ick-factor" of a Dickens back-alley scene in old London.

They would show up at night, in gangs, two to five at a time and wreak havoc, take over and generally party hardy like the Gremlins (I think that was the movie), destroying everything they could. The bird-feeders and bird-bath attracted them, but they'd tear up anything within 50 feet, like rioters losing their heads and just destroying everything within reach. They got mean and stubborn and the broom, rake, BB-gun just made them cantankerous and they began to resist efforts at just running them off - stood their ground.

I didn't need a gargantuan, vented aluminum hand-guard. I could fire five fast shots before several lie kicking and the rest scattered - never got off enough shots with the LEVER to heat the barrel up enough to catch the Brazilian mystery-wood fore-end on fire. Didn't need a laser, red dot, 40X scope, bayonet lug, "co-witnessed sights," etc.

Ugly is fine - as long as it serves a purpose, and all the purpose most of the the stuff on the "tacticool" levers serve is purile fantasy.

Now that is a serious and harsh condemnation, even as I am OK with anyone pandering to their own tastes, but when the "marketing boys" pander to those tastes and stick that stuff out there for the market to gobble up, the firearms firms they work for are validating this concept as being functional, useful, NECESSARY, and it pushes sensible, USEFUL stuff out of the production schedule.

EDIT:  A friend has a Marlin "Dark(?)" in 357, which isn't something you'd hang over the fireplace, but IS functional, and has a few functional and useful features which aren't terribly "pretty," like painted wood, instead of machined aluminum and plastic.  Rossi chimed in and probably others, but the premium price tag over the normal was, in my cheap-skate opinion, not worth that kind of difference and it's stuff you could do do it yourself anyway, except maybe threading the barrel.

Have what you want, but I feel it's irresponsible of manufacturers to portray this stuff as having any legitimate purpose, using the legitimacy they represent AS a manufacturer. As far as the aesthetic, who cares? but how some of those hand-guards can even be comfortable to hang onto is lost on me.

Sorry. I'll step down off my soap box now. The air's a little thin up here anyway.

[bisleyfan41]

Pretty sure neither of the 3 in the original post are factory offerings. Likely customized by their owners. Not how I would build them, but I ain't kicking 'em out either.

Other than the angled foregrips, I'd love to own either of the pair in the second photo. Short OAL in a pistol caliber lever action, with the ability to securely mount a light and/or laser. Yep, I'll take it esp. in 357. The angled fore grip doesn't make sense at all when you're working the action.

The other....barrel is too long for no buttstock. Plus probably at least a .30-30 in caliber, maybe a .35 Rem. No thanks.

[crazyhorse]

I would not allow one to take up space in my safe.

[Deleted]

I wouldn't be seen within 10 miles of those things. Doing that to an old Marlin should be a criminal offense. I would also venture that if it came down to it, me and my plain Jane 30-30 vs one of those yayhoos would come out on top.

[matt56]

As tacticool as I got was a Marlin 1894 CST and a Henry X Model 45-70, both I use with my Silencerco Hybrid 46. It’s easy to work subsonic loads for 180gr 357 and 400+ gr 45-70. Both are very fun to plink with

[needsmostuff]

All that's left is to mount some sights on the side.
You know, so the hood rats can shoot them sideways, like they were trained by TV.