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Reply With QuoteYa Done Good ! Very Nice !
I bought this Marlin 1894 .44 Magnum around 20 years ago. My dad cut the barrel down to 16" with a hacksaw and then used hand files to recrown the muzzle, cut the dovetail for the front sight, and recut the half moon for the barrel band's screw. He also performed an action job on it.
I sanded the gloss off the stock and refinished it with Linspeed oil to a satin finish. We installed a saddle ring too.
My best friend had an 1894 and his dad had a Winchester John Wayne commemorative. My friend is an engineer so he blueprinted the Marlin and Winchester levers and then entered their crossed over dimensions into his CAD/CAM. Out came a Marlin lever with the John Wayne big loop lever. He even had my initials stamped on the bottome of the lever.
I shot the gun for years and then decided to have Michael Gouse engrave it (www.mtart.com) with American Scroll.
There had always been a scratch on the barrel. As good as the gun looked, I really like how color case hardened frames looked on original Marlins. So I sent it off to Turnbull Manufacturing. I had them take off the "WARNING: Before shooting gun read instruction manual available...." and the scratch on the barrel as well. They reblued the barrel and magazine tube.
The leather buttstock cover with the tooled Mountain Lion is from www.levergunleather.com
Now my Marlin is finished!
WARNING? What WARNING?
It matches up really well now with my Ruger Blackhawk .44 Special (also engraved by Gouse and case hardened by Turnbull):
-Steve
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the engraving over the color case hardening is somewhat rare to me and very appealing.
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Awesome guns!
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Very, VERYnice pair indeed.
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Gorgeous!
Love the grips on that Blackhawk.
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Very nice family heirlooms you have there - Good job!
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Wow, I love them both.
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Wow those both are extremely nice looking firearms. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Wow. Those are really nice guns. I think your buddy should have turned out about a thousand of those levers! Every big loop lever out there except for Winchester's just look wrong - your friend nailed it.
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