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How many out there shooting a '95 in any caliber? Packing one around just begs me to whack off the mag box and make it a two or three shooter to better the balance, But, oh my goodness, I love shooting the thing! I really like the narrow forearm and the iron sights on this Browning. Grade I with high grade wood, 4# trigger and a real Winchester, red, hard rubber pad.
I have 73s, '92s and '86s but have to say this is my favorite lever gun to actually shoot.
200 yard pop cans are in serious trouble with this guy!
Fun that it so easily pushes a 300g round nose at 2300fps+ with a better s.d. while a poor old worn out .405 is only hitting 2200 fps with a 300g bullet.
The .375/06 is the gun Teddy should have had in Africa
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I have one in 30-06 made by Browning. It is one of my more accurate leverguns I own. Milk jugs at 150 yards can be hit off hand consistanly. I have problems at 225 yards hitting them though. The 1895 just naturaly hangs on the shoulder .
Mine is a Browning that I had rebored and rechambered to 38-72 Win.
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My only '95 is a 1924 vintage .30-06 carbine, but I need another in .35 WCF. Maybe one can be found with a worn bore and it can be re-bored. The idea of a .35 carbine piques my interest ever so slightly.
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I actually collect the silly things...I'm shooting .405, 40-72, 38-72, 35 Win, and .303Brit. I don't know why they've hung on me so hard, but there you have it. They are a little "nontraditional" from a purely leveraction standpoint. But they do handle wonderfully once you get used to them. The .35 Win is a great round. IMO probably has the most potential of the lot, for North American game. But the .405 has a sweet spot reserved in my heart. My .303B is hands down the most accurate.
I'm still seriously kicking around the idea of having my '06 Browning '95 rebarreled, I don't know of a good reboring smith (any suggestions would be welcome) to 35 Whelan. A ".375/06" is the same as the .375 Whelan, a pretty well thought of wildcat among Alaskan hunters, but I'd have to have a set of dies made and I'm not too sure about other changes to the gun itself.
Rob
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Mine's a Browning in .30-06 with an XS ramp front and a Marble's tang sight. With the right loads it can do 2.25" 200 yard groups. The magazine is fine. It's been my favorite game gun for the last nine years.
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Mine is a caliber .30 Gov from 1903. It is with while my other stuff in storage so I do not have a picture to post.
But it is the 28" barrel model and needs a .315 cast bullet to fill a slightly eroded throat. I may get to pop a coyotee someday but so far when it is with me I cannot get a shot. Deer would be no effort BUT the state of ILL does not permit it and I do all that with a recurve anyway...
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I do not like them either:
