Long Before the "Tactical" Lever Action Was Cool

[1srelluc]

This pic was taken in1959 or so. The old boys have been dead for many years now. Serious cat hunters. Saved a lot of elk and deer and livestock in their day.

Member EVR on ARFCOM posted this Win. 94 Trapper in .44 mag he is gifting to his son.

Seems that in his AO (Idaho) a lot of "old timers" converted Win. M92 and M94s for use on traplines and mountain lion hunting.

While such a conversion would not suit my uses you can go ahead and file this one under "Things that make real men say, 'Hell yea!'"

 

[lg325]

I would have loved to have hunted with them.
I got tired of being on the waiting list for the new Marlin 30-30 ,I got the Rossi M 95 30-30.
I miss that type of hunting and the people who do it. I hog hunt with mine but I wish it was back when I was a child. A great life.

 

[1srelluc]

I would have loved to have hunted with them.
I got tired of being on the waiting list for the new Marlin 30-30 ,I got the Rossi M 95 30-30.
I miss that type of hunting and the people who do it. I hog hunt with mine but I wish it was back when I was a child. A great life.

I hog hunted in FL years ago. An experience I'm not bothered about repeating.

My host shot a nice boar but did not anchor it so into the palmetto "tunnels" I went. It was ML season, so he handed me a Ruger New Army BP revolver. Oh boy!

I found the boar pretty much ready to expire but put one between the eye and ear just to be sure.