Wrap It Up.

[Ky Greg]

A great friend gifted me a leather lever wrap for the Marlin yesterday. For my first attempt at such I'm happy with it, and it's easy on the fingers too. Anyone else a wrapper? :lol:

[dverna]

Yep. Wrapped the CAS guns.

[georgerkahn]

Some years back I read an ad for an incredibly low-priced :) 2001 made Winchester Model 94AE Timber Carbine in .444 Marlin. The low-price reason? Hubby of seller dropped it from a tree-stand and lever got quite bent. I bought it, and took it to a shade-tree gunsmith who installed an after-market lever which -- funtion -- works perfectly. EXCEPT the edges were/are sharp enough to cut skin (I know this :()! Faced with the choice of filing edges (take away bluing) of the lever, or covering it -- I chose the latter. I bought some silicon foam tape from local True-Value hardware store, wrapped it, and have enjoyed shooting it (no band aids necessary!) since.
This was "pre-Amazon" -- but a quick look now shows they purvey a similar tape. That which I used has no "real" glue -- you just wrap it (I believe it was made for rake, shovel, hammers, and similar tool handles) -- and it sticks.
What I did...
geo

[Shawlerbrook]

Very nice job ! I love the looks but worry about moisture and rusting under the wrap.

[Ky Greg]

Some years back I read an ad for an incredibly low-priced :) 2001 made Winchester Model 94AE Timber Carbine in .444 Marlin. The low-price reason? Hubby of seller dropped it from a tree-stand and lever got quite bent. I bought it, and took it to a shade-tree gunsmith who installed an after-market lever which -- funtion -- works perfectly. EXCEPT the edges were/are sharp enough to cut skin (I know this :()! Faced with the choice of filing edges (take away bluing) of the lever, or covering it -- I chose the latter. I bought some silicon foam tape from local True-Value hardware store, wrapped it, and have enjoyed shooting it (no band aids necessary!) since.
This was "pre-Amazon" -- but a quick look now shows they purvey a similar tape. That which I used has no "real" glue -- you just wrap it (I believe it was made for rake, shovel, hammers, and similar tool handles) -- and it sticks.
What I did...
geo

Great idea.

[Ky Greg]

Very nice job ! I love the looks but worry about moisture and rusting under the wrap.
I'll let the next generation that owns it worry about that. :lol:

[Larry Gibson]

I'm a "wrapper"......

[Ky Greg]

I'm a "wrapper"......

:2_high5:

[curiousgeorge]

Hi Greg,
Haven't wrapped any of mine, but they are all older guns that don't really have sharp edges that I have noticed.

We'll get together sometime and I'll let you shoot Tommy Adkins' 45-70.

[Garand]

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6 out of 7

[veeman]

All 12 of my leverguns have wraps.

[Ky Greg]

Beautiful!!!

[Ky Greg]

Hi Greg,
Haven't wrapped any of mine, but they are all older guns that don't really have sharp edges that I have noticed.

We'll get together sometime and I'll let you shoot Tommy Adkins' 45-70.

I have a Tommy memento myself. got this and some lead ingots.

[GhostHawk]

I did not go as fancy as you. Just camo paracord on a Win 94 post 64. Removed the safety, wrapped the lever. Made a big difference on my knuckles working the action.

It shoots well enough but my H&R .30-30 20 ga combo will out shoot it hands down. Of course the H&R has a 2.5 moa Red Dot sight on it which helps a lot.

[Ky Greg]

I did not go as fancy as you. Just camo paracord on a Win 94 post 64. Removed the safety, wrapped the lever. Made a big difference on my knuckles working the action.

It shoots well enough but my H&R .30-30 20 ga combo will out shoot it hands down. Of course the H&R has a 2.5 moa Red Dot sight on it which helps a lot.

:lol:

[Mk42gunner]

Very nice job ! I love the looks but worry about moisture and rusting under the wrap.

I'll second this. Especially if you live in the part of the world where it gets humid. It really doesn't take long for humidity and leather to rust and badly pit levers.

Sadly, I know this from experience.

Robert

[Eddie Southgate]

No.