McPherson on Leverguns : Customizing, Handloading, and Using the Lever-Action Rifle (revised 2021) [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

Revised, 2023: 394 pages, 415 pictures, 55,000 words. Also available in printed versions, of both hardback and soft-cover in Black and White Editions, Collector's Editions, and Standard Color Edition. In this book, McPherson covers every aspect of using, modifying, and customizing lever-action rifles and loading premium ammunition for use in those guns, to get the most performance and usefulness out of these fine rifles. He chronicles his custom modifications of the Marlin 1894 and 336-based guns, building everything from a 17-caliber, quarter-MOA varmint rifle to the mighty 510 Kodiak express, which safely generates more than 5000 foot-pounds of muzzle energy. During decades of custom gunsmithing, he specialized in building lightweight carbines (some lighter than 4½-pounds), known by friends and customers alike as, "Peggy rifles." This is teh bible on costomizing the lever-action rifle. Read more