Got my Marlin 1889 .32-20 WCF today. Looks good and in nice condition for having been made around 1893 or so. No pics yet.
Marlin Model 1889 .32-20 WCF
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Looking forward to seeing it. Love Marlin lever guns.
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daddio202
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Beautiful gun and in a wonderful cartridge!! Tough to find any of those old lever guns still in nice condition that are not prices in the stratosphere. Just lovely thanks for those pictures. Enjoy
Those are both some nice eye candy. Gotta love the old stuff.
bmcgilvray
SWCA Member
Great rifles and a wonderful cartridge.
Love the photographs!
Love the photographs!
My PD had a couple of old Marlin lever guns, a .32-20 and a .38-40, in the gun locker.
I bet your department liberated them from moonshiners. I understand the .32-20 was a favorite of our local “small-batch distillers” in the Ozark mountains back in the day. I bet the same was true with your mountain folk.
Bill and Tom, beautiful rifles.
Bill and Tom, beautiful rifles.
My PD was outside of Birmingham AL
. I did see quite a number of .32-20s down in Alabama and bought a few of them.
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When I joined the Elyria PD in '72, we had Marlin 336's in 30-30 Win. for our sniper rifles
. Also had some M1 Carbines too.
We modernized and finally got Remington 700's in .243 Win. with heavy barrels and scopes to replace the Marlins.
I used to take my assigned Remington out to shoot Woodchucks
.
. Also had some M1 Carbines too.We modernized and finally got Remington 700's in .243 Win. with heavy barrels and scopes to replace the Marlins.
I used to take my assigned Remington out to shoot Woodchucks
.
