The “Other” Model ’94 Lever Action Rifle: Marlin 94 Rifle

By David LaPell

Opinion: David reviews a classic lever action. The Marlin 94 Rifle.

New York – -(AmmoLand.com)- If you mention to anyone who is familiar with guns, particularly lever action rifles, the simple moniker of “Model 94” and you will get all of the tales of reverence of the Winchester Model 94 Rifle, and it’s hundred plus year history and with it of course arguably the most famous deer cartridge of all time, the .30-30. There is another rifle that goes by the same title that to some has a following that has sustained it for just as long, and that is the Marlin Model ’94 Lever-Action Rifle.

Marlin Model 94 Lever-Action Rifle

By the time 1894 rolled around, Winchester was already the big name when it came to lever action rifles. With the help of John Moses Browning providing one successful design on top of the other and earlier guns like the 1866 Yellow Boy and the 1873, Winchester was well entrenched and had the lion’s share of the market, especially in the west.

In 1881, an upstart by the name of John Mahlon Marlin started his own …Read the Rest

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