Here is the new 1895 Ruger/marlin

[BigNate]

I am a Lever gun fanatic, i have many Marlins, Winchesters, Rossi's, a Chiappa 1886, Henrys and even a couple custom 1895s from Wild West Guns and Brockmans Custom (now defunct). I have 3 Remlins 2 1894s and an 1895 SBL they have all been fine for me. I like that i don't care as much about them so they are truly tools but functional tools.

I frankly have more issues with my older original Marlins than the remlins. I do not own a new Ruger/Marlin as the prices are just too whacked for me and there not that much better. I want to get one to see but i will wait a while to see what the market and what models they make.

I have replaced many levers on my Marlins with big loops from Wild West Guns and Beartooth Mercantile. While the lever interface is important to the function of a Marlin 1894,95 or 336 i have found that the replacement levers have in general have proper angles cut and work without tuning just fine.

Tuning is really not difficult and there are lots of tutorials online. If one can cut and tig weld a lever they could certainly tune a replacement lever should it be needed.

The WWG levers are bigger and would certainly open up that space for most large hands. There are of course other vendors making them. The guy that owns Beartooth Mercantile in Cody Wyoming is very nice and also knowledgeable on the Marlin Lever guns. He could certainly talk to you about issues with installation and tuning.

Thanks sir. Good info...

 

[Longhair1957]

On my last 1895G I added a WWG big loop. But first I beveled the edges snd polished the whole lever, and reblued. Looked and worked great.

 

[brandyspaw]

Yeah, polishing the sharp edges on the loop is something I did on an older Marlin 336 I had that was chambered in 35 Remington. The sharp edges on the loop caused some discomfort to my porky mitts on occasion. So all I did was sand off the sharp edges, polish out the loop with finer sandpaper and then re-blued it with Brownell's Oxpho-Blue cold bluing.

The key with the Oxpho-blue is to have the metal really clean and warmed up some. Then give it several coats following the instructions. It actually works pretty good for a low budget approach.

 

[xerts1911]

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