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Showed a couple of these before. Had them on the bed, getting ready to clean and oil them and decided to take a picture. Not the best but at least I now have a picture of all of them together.
Top to bottom:
Browning model 71 carbine, 348 Winchester
Winchester model 64, 30-30 Winchester
Browning model 86 carbine, 45-70 Govt.
Browning model 81 takedown, 308 Winchester
Shot all of them today. No holes in the back of the sandbox backstop--yet.
Forgot and left-out one. Winchester model 92, 45 Colt. Love the looks of this one.
Don
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I am glad to see it is quite possible to have a great set of leverguns and with only one being a Winchester...
And for AJMD, that model 64 is a rifle, and would be even if it was chambered for a short cartridge.
I think you got 'er done very nicely, Don.
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The Browning 71 is the one I'd choose for super reliability. It is really smooth with chambering and extraction. I think a lot of that has to do with the shape and weight distribution of the 348 cartridge. The 86, 45-70 tends to "shave" the bullets a little when chambering and I don't think it has the ideal balance--nose heavy--of the 348 ctg. I do prefer levering the straight grip 86. It's a little easier to get that last, important, push to the lever. Love the appearance and overall quality of both of these guns. I really like the small, flat across the top rear sight of the 86. Like to "play" with the ladder feature sometime and find-out where to set it for longer distances. No gun I'd rather look at than this 86. Some as good but none better.
The 64 is lighter than the above two guns and, except for a stiff extractor, feeds and extracts very reliably. This one was made in 1941 and has a more rounded bottom receiver than later versions. The beautiful rounded bottom of the 86, 71 and 92 receivers is tops. They really fit in the hand for one hand carry. Really like the thin forestock and inletted steel shotgun butt plate of the 64. Classic lines.
The BLR is giving me some problems with fast levering. Empty case sometimes turns around backwards during extraction and jams the action. It's never thrown the empties very far--one to two feet. (My Ruger Mini-14 throws them 25-30 feet!) Will send to Browning once I get moved to new location. Yesterday the bolt was sticking at times. Maybe it has a timing issue. Still dealing with mounting a Burris FastFire II on it. Tried receiver and just no way to have sight there and still have good hand room for one hand carry. Now going to mount it on barrel but finding-out if the Browning Scout-Style mount will work with the Burris mount. Anyone here know? Neck size only with the 308 ctg for this gun sure saves me time at the reloading bench. For a one gun man that 308 cartridge would be hard to beat.
When it comes to feeding the cartridge the BLR is super slick and smooth. So smooth you can't even feel it chambering the cartridge. Hope I can get the fast levering/jamming, extraction issue solved and also possible bolt issue. No problem at all when work lever slow to fairly fast.
The Burris FastFire may end-up on my Mini-14. On this gun I'd use the Protector type mount with protective side plates. I now have this sight and it allows for unobstructed vision and it's very light. Slightly fuzzy but really nice, bright red dot. It's a keeper.
