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14 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Beyond silly:

 

It's a "thing" now to trick out lever-actions.  In some ways, I get it.  If I was in bear country, bad weather, especially at night, give me the option above vs. the one out of the box.  After all, it's the caliber you are needing, and a lever beats a bolt-gun in terms of capacity and speed for a 45-70 or .450 Marlin.  

No more wood to crack/warp, a red-dot on a rifle beats irons every time, a light for low visibility, extra rounds mounted on the gun for faster reloads - it all makes sense.....IF.....you use these add-ons for what they are designed to do, and not just have it look cool.  

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3 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Dunno, it may function ok but the aesthetics are about like this….

 

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Yeah, I get it.  You make the correct point that it's just aesthetics.  A sleeve of rounds on the butt stock.  Par for the course.  It's the skeletonized stock and attachments that put people off.  Again, If I was up in the mountains or needed a truck/cabin gun in that caliber.  I'd have to give it a look.  It's the light and red dot that in my mind make it superior to a classic version.  As the old saying goes, can't hit what you can't see.  Wolves messing around at night with livestock nearby, or a bear rummaging through the trash.  As momma used to say, most bad things happen at night.  

It just goes back to using these tools are they are designed, or just looking cool.  

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5 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

Yeah, I get it.  You make the correct point that it's just aesthetics.  A sleeve of rounds on the butt stock.  Par for the course.  It's the skeletonized stock and attachments that put people off.  Again, If I was up in the mountains or needed a truck/cabin gun in that caliber.  I'd have to give it a look.  It's the light and red dot that in my mind make it superior to a classic version.  As the old saying goes, can't hit what you can't see.  Wolves messing around at night with livestock nearby, or a bear rummaging through the trash.  As momma used to say, most bad things happen at night.  

It just goes back to using these tools are they are designed, or just looking cool.  

Sure, you’d have a polymer stock, a red dot, and a light. You would also have the big loop, without a little craft braid of paracord in the way. 
 

As built, that is a clown gun. It looks like one of those guns that gets posted in a Facebook group about cars that gets taken over by incels*. 

 

*this is a real thing that happens. There’s a lot of sad young men out there.

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6 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Sure, you’d have a polymer stock, a red dot, and a light. You would also have the big loop, without a little craft braid of paracord in the way. 
 

As built, that is a clown gun.

Not my dime, but yeah.  Small loops are hard enough without losing more space to a braid on the lever

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