From Rossi
Rossi‘s making some Mare’s Legs:
From 2010 NRA Annual Meeting |
I want one of those with a rail on top. A Mare’s Leg in in .30-30 decked out with an Aimpoint would make a fine house gun.
Rossi‘s making some Mare’s Legs:
From 2010 NRA Annual Meeting |
I want one of those with a rail on top. A Mare’s Leg in in .30-30 decked out with an Aimpoint would make a fine house gun.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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May 17th, 2010 at 10:01 am
I met you, and you didn’t seem crazy.
May 17th, 2010 at 10:24 am
I would prefer a pistol caliber (Maybe .357) and a longer barrel
May 17th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Make mine a .357 or .44 Special, and I’ll be good to go.
…Any information on price and availability? Rossi doesn’t have them up on their website yet.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:16 am
“A Mare’s Leg in in .30-30 decked out with an Aimpoint would make a fine house gun.”
Provided you only need to fire like 2-3 shots. In pistol calibers Mare’s Legs are generally six-shooters. In rifle calibers they’d be significantly less than that. No thanks. If I’m going to get that little capacity, I’ll go for a Shotgun that shoots lots of bullets with each trigger pull.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Aw, fer crying out loud. What a waste of a wonderful gun and a pretty decent cartridge.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Just go and get yourself a Charter in .32 H&R. You could probably get one for $100.00 from some cop who took it off a punk and never inventoried it. You might have to come to Chicago though. 😉
May 17th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Owners of that type of lever gun can correct me if my assumptions are wrong, as I have only owned full sized Marlin lever actions, but they seem highly impractical. I’d make the fairly safe assumption it is less accurate than a rifle, and without being able to plant the stock in your shoulder while you work the lever, I’d expect a lower practical rate of fire too.
Less accuracy + lower rate of fire + lower magazine capacity + Steve McQueen used one on TV = it is the cowboy action version of semi-auto SMG clones( a fun yet ungainly pistol)
If my first impressions are way off base, let me know.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:33 am
it is the cowboy action version of semi-auto SMG clones( a fun yet ungainly pistol)
That’s very apt, I think.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:33 am
They’re totally impractical and the house gun bit was a joke. I just think they look sexy.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Woody Strode wore one in the opening scene of “Once Upon A Time In The West”. Had a “Rifleman” screw attached to the trigger guard, too, so the rifle would fire as soon as the lever was closed. But I thought Claudia Cardinale was much sexier.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNhQgD4gmQ Violins, no sax.
May 17th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
For those of us who grew up watching the great TV westerns of the ’50 and early ’60 this is a Good Thing.
And one of the leather companies is making a holster rig for it just as Steve McQueen wore in Wanted: Dead or Alive.
Yes, I spent far too much time in front of the TV in my impressionable youth.
May 17th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
I’ll grant that women who carry mare’s legs are sexy…
May 17th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
I agree with aczarnowski 🙂
May 17th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Ok, that’s a #$%^& that I didn’t need. But, thanks anyway aczarnowski. As to the mare’s leg, I say 16 1/4″ bbl, full size stock, lose the ‘Rifleman’ loop and get a realistic one, 45acp w/200g Speers, and yes, cool house gun. Yeah, I know.
May 17th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Hey Unc, sounds like what you want is the old Wild West Guns “Bushwhacker” I don’t think they make it anymore but you never know.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/mik911/TacticalLever1.jpg
May 17th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
I thought the idea of lever action pistols died sometime in 1855 with the Volcanic. Folks kind of liked revolvers that you could shoot with one hand. Now, if I was Steve McQueen and had a writer and director and stuntman to stage my fights for me ….
May 19th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Oh my! Look what a search for “mare’s leg” turned up.
A cut down Lightening.
http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2010/04/peshawar-lancers.html
All the coolness of Steve McQueen but easier to work than the lever action.
If it fits the holster … now were did I leave that lottery ticket?