1894c Light and mount suggestions

[53CHEV]

Just missed a dog, 1am harassing my goats, using a pistol & a mag light; funny, he wouldn't stand still for me but ducked behind the barn. I'm even slower with my shotty thus the pistol. My ears are still ringing. Can anyone recommend a light+mount I could put on my 1894c? I'd be really handy if the light could be easily mounted dismounted.
Thanks

[Rusty]

If you'll look back thru his posts AJMD has done a lot of work with just that set up. He also has goats to protect.

[AJMD429]

The first thread shows the holosights I started to work with and so on, if you've not selected your favorite one of those yet - the Burris Fastfire-II is by far the best for my farm-oriented nocturnal use, and is even better combined with a pistol laser just in front of it.

• Holosight photos and comparisons - http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=28788

The second thread shows what 'most' people try to use at night, and I'm trying just to get a feel for it, but the levergun is still my favorite.

• Semiauto vs. Levergun for ''night scout' use - http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=45001

These are the three "Night Scout" leverguns I've made, and show different light mount I've used.

• Night Scout I - .357 Mag Marlin - http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=23531
  
  Night Scout II - .45 Colt Rossi - http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=31062
  
  Night Scout III - .44 Mag Marlin (now actually rebarreled to .45 Colt) - http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=40663

I think buying an extra magazine tube (if you don't want to risk 'permanently altering' your original one) and sweating on a steel (or JB-Welding on an aluminum) scope-base you've dowel-sanded to match the magazine-tube curve is the best way. The PVC contraption does work however, and just took a couple hours to make using scraps of PVC and a spare scope base I had sitting around. After my third one of those I got it 'just right' to snap on and off the magazine tube easily, instead of having to 'install' and leave in place. When it's off the gun there's no 'rail' or base, so it looks 'cleaner', but I've got other leverguns for that, so I just keep the rail in place, and usually the light too.

I think the .45 Colt Marlin will be my favorite, but I am getting a .357 Can (Mystic) so I've thought about having the .357 Marlin threaded. Really, though, the .45 Colt 'cowboy' level loads are quiet enough to shoot on the occasional out-doing-chores and spot a raccoon/possum/coyote type thing. If I know I'm going outside to shoot a barnyard critter I'll grab the muffs.

The .357 Marlin shot this 50-yard group in pitch-black conditions with the Coast LED-Lenser, Burris Fastfire-II, LaserMax Pistol Laser, and 'floppy' version of the PVC base for the light.



I don't want to upset folks who can't relate to dealing with barnyard vermin, but I could see a feral cat at 100 yards with any of the above setups, though I've only proven it with a bullet using the .22 LR at 75 yards.

I use a bulkier light (300 lumens or thereabouts, from the hardware store) on my .22 LR barnyard gun (no pictures of it with that light), just because the gun shape and stock are more amenable to that bulk (I use the bulkier Bushnell Holosight on it, as well, for the same reason).

[mack]

Doc, I like that pitch black group.
I've got a dog 'yote worrying the barn some nights, he also has put a stalk on me and Jack, (my ACD), while on our morning walk a few times. Can't seem to get one off at him, thinking about a better low light setup than the M27 Smith and a Maglite.