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well after going to 3 gun shops finally landed at 4th and got a guy that knew his poop on lever actions. he talked us out of the marlin guide gun because of its 18 1/2 " barrel. we ended up with the exact same stainless gun but with the 24" barrel. this model is the 1895XLR . the advantage is 500fps velocity and roughly a 300 yd gun.
this is achieved by hornadays "lever revolution" rounds. these are plastic tipped ballistically coefficient POINTY ROUNDS. unlike all lever actions which have your standard un coefficient rounds due to tube feeding and not having a pointy round ignite primer of round in front of it in tube.
hornadays round is 325gr bullet. lite weight gives better range before dropping therefore more velocity out of 24" barrel.
sounded good to me. younger spawn liked the gun either 18 1/2 or 24" so learning about hornadays new offering made sense. the coolest thing...........the salesman was also "wrong handed" and told my son that he is sick and tired of building left handed guns which have very little resale value and to learn how to shoot right handed. he did give some insight on shaking hands and stated a "wrong handed(lefty)" always shakes hands with someone(right handed) and his shooting arm is free! hahahahaha think about it!
anyway bought a sling, cleaning kit, box of 405gr remingtons( they were out of the 325gr hornadays) and off we go today to blast 20 rds and get kid used to KABOOM! $699 for marlins 1895XLR w/ laminated gray stock. kid was on cloud nine. took it over to buddies house who i hunt with and picked up some more reloads for my .338 win mag and showed him the marlin. his kid stated " dad when are YOU gonna buy me a gun like that!" that made me feel good. so younger spawn just got his birthday and xmas present early. im a "good" dad until after shooting today when he has to go back to work for me outside to pay off his bilstein shocks for his truck that i fronted him.
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