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Re: Lever-action for home defense

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Having the ability to mount a light on my Marlin is worth its weight in gold.
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Netpackrat wrote:Having the ability to mount a light on my Marlin is worth its weight in gold.
I will defer to more actual experience with weapons lights, particularly on a lever action. Would you care to list out the benefits for the sake of the discussion?
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The Ruger 96/44 might be a good choice if one can find higher capacity magazines for them.
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Vonz90 wrote:The Ruger 96/44 might be a good choice if one can find higher capacity magazines for them.
AFAIK, the various rugers that use the rotary 44 mag have no other option available besides the factory mag
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tfbncc wrote:http://www.rangerpointprecision.com/mar ... 0mm-357sig

I'll just leave this here...
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And on a personal note: 10mm is best mm
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Y'know, that's really neat and all that, but $2400 for a Marlin? Really? I mean, seriously? I love the little twerp, but I'm also fond of eating regularly, and sleeping indoors, so this probably ain't gonna happen!

And it's gonna be a .45 Colt!
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randy wrote:
Netpackrat wrote:Having the ability to mount a light on my Marlin is worth its weight in gold.
I will defer to more actual experience with weapons lights, particularly on a lever action. Would you care to list out the benefits for the sake of the discussion?
Bears are quite active at night, and out in the middle of BFE, it is much less likely to muzzle something you don't want to muzzle, when using your rifle as a flashlight. And then when you find the thing that might need to be put down right fucking now, conveniently you are already pointing your rifle at it. I find that with the light on, I can see the silhouette of my sights enough to be useful. Running a firesight front on the Guide Gun, so maybe that makes a difference.

Even just walking from the cabin to the outhouse, it is a comfort.

Perhaps FS' minion is not in the same situation, but a bump in the night in his area could easily be something that would benefit from being illuminated.
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Netpackrat wrote:
randy wrote:
Netpackrat wrote:Having the ability to mount a light on my Marlin is worth its weight in gold.
I will defer to more actual experience with weapons lights, particularly on a lever action. Would you care to list out the benefits for the sake of the discussion?
Bears are quite active at night, and out in the middle of BFE, it is much less likely to muzzle something you don't want to muzzle, when using your rifle as a flashlight. And then when you find the thing that might need to be put down right fucking now, conveniently you are already pointing your rifle at it. I find that with the light on, I can see the silhouette of my sights enough to be useful. Running a firesight front on the Guide Gun, so maybe that makes a difference.

Even just walking from the cabin to the outhouse, it is a comfort.

Perhaps FS' minion is not in the same situation, but a bump in the night in his area could easily be something that would benefit from being illuminated.
She's not likely to encounter bears (not impossible, but not likely) her problems are more likely to be coyotes, feral hogs, feral dogs, or smaller vermin like raccoons or possums, possibly with rabies. In any case, I'd like for her to have the ability to light it up while still keeping both hands on the long gun.

Now that ability has gone from a "nice-to-have" to a requirement!
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A 20 gauge shotgun might have a lot going for it in this application.
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