Greatest wife ever!

[jmad_81]

For Valentine's day my wife got me.......
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Into the 45-70 club! Talk about a good looker! She did all her homework on her own and found a really nice Marlin 1895ss. It has a 22" barrel and is in near mint condition. I'm one lucky man!
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Thinking I really need to keep her around for a while :wink:

 

[gerry]

You sir do have a great wife, congrats. Very nice gun too.

 

[DrMike]

She is a real gem. Congratulations on a thoughtful lady and on the acquisition of a great rifle.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Wow, that is a nice Marlin and "Made In New Haven" as well. My wife would never know about that! Your wife did great by you with a wonderful gift!

 

[Guest]

She's a keeper! 8)
Nice gun. Neat round.
Dewey

 

[SJB358]

Awesome rifle Jake! That's awesome buddy. Great wife and very good shopping skills!

 

[Elkman]

It looks very nice! You will love it, I have really enjoyed mine. She did well!!

 

[pre6422hornet]

Awesome Jake!!

Awesome on all accounts.

 

[Guy Miner]

Excellent!

I think you owe her...

 

[jmad_81]

Thanks guys. I'm very excited about getting this thing up and runnig. A buddy of mine has a friend that is building bullets. He said something about he bought a press from cor-bon? I'm not sure, but either way I have a bunch of 350gr bullets on the way to play with. Most of my reloading stuff should be here in a day or two, but I forgot to order a shell plate :x So it might be next week before I can shoot it.

Excellent!

I think you owe her...

Agreed! I told her that she made my nice flowers, card, and really nice dinner look pretty bla. I couldn't be happier with her, or the rifle.

 

[DrMike]

I'd say she definitely knows the way to her man's heart. What is that old saying, "The way to a man's heart is with a gun?"

 

[filmjunkie4ever]

Wow. Shes a keeper!

 

[jmad_81]

What kind of bases and rings are you guys using with your lever guns? I'm looking at eventuallt putting a 1.25-4 VXR on it.

 

[Guy Miner]

I used a 2.5x Leupold compact on the Leupold mount & rings. Worked out real well, with lots of eyebrow/forehead clearance for the heavy loads.

Made for a pretty good hunting setup I thought.

 

[taylorce1]

Sweet! I can't get my wife to buy me any guns, but at least shell okay my purchases pretty easily.

 

[FOTIS]

Awesome. Prepare for some power there! Good for you bud!

 

[Elkman]

Here is mine, since I have thinned the rifle herd I am thinking of moving my 1.5 X 5 from the Whelen to the 45/70, and puting on a 2.5 X 8 on the Whelen. I may have a clearence poblem with a Variable on the 45/70 however. I hate messing with stuff that already works.

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[SJB358]

Here is mine, since I have thinned the rifle herd I am thinking of moving my 1.5 X 5 from the Whelen to the 45/70, and puting on a 2.5 X 8 on the Whelen. I may have a clearence poblem with a Variable on the 45/70 however. I hate messing with stuff that already works.

That rifle looks GREAT Bill..

 

[DrMike]

Here is mine, since I have thinned the rifle herd I am thinking of moving my 1.5 X 5 from the Whelen to the 45/70, and puting on a 2.5 X 8 on the Whelen. I may have a clearence poblem with a Variable on the 45/70 however. I hate messing with stuff that already works.

The scope changes you suggest seem eminently reasonable to me, Bill. The ol' Marlin looks pretty skookum from up here; I sure wouldn't be ashamed to carry it.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Sounds logical to me, Bill. I put my 1.5-5x20 scope on my 9.3x74R for the same reason. When I sold the .340 Weathery, it caused me to do a scope shuffle but it is done nowand I am happier with the shuffle of three scopes, plus selling some closet scopes that I don't use anymore. The herd is much leaner now!