Joe S.
Hunter
I lucked up and was able to grab this Marlin 1894CST from a local seller recently. This rifle has a 16 1/4 inch threaded barrel chambered in 357 magnum, is stainless, and has black painted wood stocks. Other than the barrel length and chambering, it is totally different than any other lever action rifle I typically go for, but the thing was so darn cool I had to have it. I'm glad it worked out.
Well I picked it up Sunday. My nephew rode with me, so of course I had to let him shoot it first when we got back since he took time out of his busy teenager schedule to hang out with his grumpy old uncle. Here he is putting some 38 special on steel from about 15 yards.
After they left, I dug out my old scout rail and mounted it up. Since I don't have a scope or rings yet, I was going to mount my Burris Fast Fire 3 on the rail and just use that for the time being. It would not fit on this rail. So I'm guessing it is for a Picatinny, and this is a Weaver style, or vice versa. I was a little disappointed to figure that out.
No worries. I will just use iron sites for now.
So now the hunt begins for the "perfect" scout scope. I'm going to have to have a combination of great quality and good price for this set up. I also want to mount the scope with quick detach rings. I'm pretty sure I'm going to settle on the Warn or Burris quick detach rings, but if there's any others out there that y'all would recommend let me know please. And any opinions on scout scopes are welcome. I'm pretty excited about this little rifle. I think it will be a good little shooter.
Well I picked it up Sunday. My nephew rode with me, so of course I had to let him shoot it first when we got back since he took time out of his busy teenager schedule to hang out with his grumpy old uncle. Here he is putting some 38 special on steel from about 15 yards.
After they left, I dug out my old scout rail and mounted it up. Since I don't have a scope or rings yet, I was going to mount my Burris Fast Fire 3 on the rail and just use that for the time being. It would not fit on this rail. So I'm guessing it is for a Picatinny, and this is a Weaver style, or vice versa. I was a little disappointed to figure that out.
No worries. I will just use iron sites for now.
So now the hunt begins for the "perfect" scout scope. I'm going to have to have a combination of great quality and good price for this set up. I also want to mount the scope with quick detach rings. I'm pretty sure I'm going to settle on the Warn or Burris quick detach rings, but if there's any others out there that y'all would recommend let me know please. And any opinions on scout scopes are welcome. I'm pretty excited about this little rifle. I think it will be a good little shooter.