A new 30-30 lever gun? Just how new is it?

[felix]

http://www.mossberg.com/products/default.asp?id=31&section=products

[floodgate]

Felix:

Mossberg made a Marlin knock-off - their Model 472 in various configurations - for a few years in the mid-70's, but this looks more 94-ish and appears to be something altogether new, at least for them. I'd like to see one.

floodgate

[softpoint]

Looks real familiar, doesn't it? Wonder if the parts interchange.

[scrapcan]

I thought I saw an article about this somwhere. I remember that the bolt was much different than a Winchester.

[docusn1]

Kinda looks a lot like my model 94.

[jlchucker]

Still looks like it has that goofy safety, though.

[26Charlie]

Well, I'm glad to know it's tremendously fast handling, maneuverable, and astoundingly accurate. They say so. All qualities good to have in a M94 knockoff, capturing a market Winchester has abandoned.

You can also get their JIC 12 gauge, 18 1/2" bbl., pistol grip, packed in a waterproof carry tube. Then you would be ready for any eventuality.

[C A Plater]

Gun Blast has pictures of it from the Shot Show of this year. It does look like a Winchester in certain ways but it has a round bolt and a solid bridge at the rear. I do not know how it locks up but judging from the looks of the lever and it linkages it probably works like a `94. Their last try at lever guns looked like a Marlin so I wish them better luck this time.
http://www.gunblast.com/images/SHOT2008/Day2/DSC02476.jpg