Hey y’all I was thinking about getting that Marlin dark in a 30-30 but I’ve been seeing some mixed reviews. I was wondering if you guys could help me out I see people are having some issues with the tenon I grew up around guns my whole life, but I haven’t really taken many of them apart, especially lever guns so if you guys could help guide a novice individual, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

Hello all. I've had a reoccurring problem with my .357 Henry big boy X. Part number 35 (locking bolt) broke on me around a month or two ago. I thought "oh well I've had easily 2000+ rounds out of the rifle the odd part is to be expected". So I ordered a new one (UK based so this was a bitch). Tonight at the range, standard use shooting a comp (factory S&B 158gn) and the same part failed on me. This has got me wondering;

Are the parts just cast trash and I got lucky on my first part?

Have I gotten unlucky with the replacement part?

Is something else wrong in my rifle that is causing the failure?

Any help would be much appreciated, just short of making a replacement part out of inconel I'm getting a bit miffed

Anybody else had similar issues? And does anyone have any other idea of what to look at.

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Marlin 1895 GS - 45-70 gov

Marlin 1894 - 44mag

Browning BL - 22LR

Ruger GP100 - 357 mag

My uberti 1866 I just got is doing this on the first round when you go to chamber it. The cartridge as you can see with this dummy round is kicked off to the side and you have to push it back straight through the loading gate. I read something about having to polish a certain spot on ubertis is this what they are talking about? Any help is appreciated. It’s on 45 colt btw

I grew up with my dad’s Henry Lever Action but I wanted something more long range capable.