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Originally Posted by jyl
How can lever guns be any good, without polymer, carbon fibre, or tactical rails?
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Yeah, walnut and blued steel is
so last millenium.
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Originally Posted by campbellcj
Just curious - what is the reasonably accurate range on the 1894 .357? I assume it is shorter than the Mini-14?
You can fire .38 spl as well (right?), which should be cheaper and easier to obtain these days I suspect. Not as fun, though.
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With the proper bullets, pistol caliber lever guns can be accurate out to 500-600 yards and beyond. Their very high trajectories make it difficult to hit, as range estimation becomes critical. Tang sights are available with micrometer elevation and windage scales that make the actual adjustment very precise (we use these on black powder cartridge match rifles out to 1,000 yards). The real trick is knowing where to adjust them.
I've never fired a Mini-14 that I would call "accurate". Three to four minute of angle is about par for these, which is just fine for their intended use. Clair Reese just happens to write up the new ones (after some major re-tooling at Ruger) in this very same issue of
Rifle. He says they are much improved.