Product Spotlight: Midwest Industries Lever Gun Upgrades
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- čas přidán 24. 09. 2023
- When you hear "Midwest Industries," you probably think of some of the best upgrade parts ever designed and built for the AR-15, don't you? Turns out MI is about a lot more than AR gear. Brownells Gun Tech™ Caleb Savant is joined by Tyler Storch from Midwest Industries, who gives us the scoop on his company's upgrade components for Marlin, Henry, Winchester, and Rossi lever action rifles. YES, modern performance upgrades for a 150-year-old rifle platform! Putting an AR-15 style M-LOK® handguard on a lever gun may seem like sacrilege to some, but the folks at Midwest see it as modernizing a capable firearm platform that can still play a vital role in in hunting, home defense, and personal protection.
Attaching modern accessories to a lever action rifle is not exactly new. Years ago, hog hunters started duct taping gun lights to their lever rifles so they could hunt at night. There has to be a better say, thought the MI crew..... Tyler walks us around a Rossi 92 rifle fitted out with MI's latest M-LOK® handguard assembly, with a Picatinny rail over the barrel just ahead of the receiver for an optic, plus iron backup sights. For you Winchester fans, a version of this setup for the Model 1894 is on the way. Don't need the full handguard but want the Pic rail on top? MI's got ya covered with a system that attaches securely to the factory sight dovetails.
Hog hunters who want to use their lever rifles for hunting their favorite game at night have gone "whole hog" on MI's upgrades. You have plenty of room to mount a gun light, red dot sight, and IR illuminator (for use with your night vision goggles). Or maybe you just want something that looks different to blow your friends' minds and break the Internet? MI's components enable you to take that old lever action rifle gathering dust in the back of the gun safe and give it a new lease on life! - Sport
Some folk like to keep thing original. Some like to make their tools even more useful, aesthetics be damned. Thanks for increasing the options.
Form over function. There is a special spot in hell reserved for those that ruin classic firearms with tacky accessories. I'd rather die in style or accidently clap my wife than put a flashlight on a classic lever gun.
@arcuz7862 its current production guns. What's classic about that? Guns evolve. Deal with it.
@@Azzazinism it's just boomer fudds being crybabies - dude literally said he'd rather shoot his wife than put a light on his lever gun
@@arcuz7862try a red dot on your lever gun, it makes it more FUN and isn't that what it's about ?
@@Azzazinism The lever action design is classic, what's so hard to grasp about that? You have an IQ of 62, deal with it.
A good marble peep sight is all you need. 👍
Anyone that owns a 94 knows how fragile the fore end wood is, especially if you buy a used model. I'm so glad I actually have options for the 94 now, it was slept on by everyone.
I loooove the modern look to the lever guns
As a Rossi 92 owner i am pretty excited about this.
Need some accessories for the Henry 22’s! Especially the H001. Would love a stock and handguard upgrade. Make it happen!
You need to get creative
I didn't feel like waiting, so I modified one of the Marlin rails to fit my Rossi 92 back in 2020 - still, good to have more options for those who aren't as comfortable cutting new notches in their barrels 😂
Finally a Winchester sku!
It has that Mad Max look about it
What the lever gun really needs is a better selection of cartridges. My Dad /loves/ lever actions but keeps going back to his .243 because where I live 300 yards is a close shot. I know there's a couple options for longer range calibers, but they seem to be unobtanium
The problem is the tubular magazine system. You generally can't load spitzer projectiles in them which eliminates virtually all of the most modern rifle calibers.
The lever gun has never been a long range weapon. There's a reason its called a "brush gun" and not an "open plains gun".
@@oldscratch3535 Yes, you are correct about the tube magazine, but there are lever actions that take box magazines. I don't know why they aren't more popular
@@trapperjohn7571cost and capacity, they don’t keep making things that nobody is buying.
Wow! That's great. I'm just waiting for someone to come out with a way to upgrade my S&W revolver to accept magazines. A "tactical revolver".
Do any of the Henry accessories work on 22LR lever actions?
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Why not a link for all iron sights for lever action rifles ?
Original assault rifle
Go ahead trick out one of those fancy Henrys or even worse than that a fancy antique Winchester.
The real question is why would you NOT do this to your lever gun?😂 Unless it is like really old or really nice. I want one, 45-70 government, the only good government.
I have a 1964 Marlin 336 Royal Canadian in .30-30. I would absolutely never do this to that gun.
Exactly. Probably a beauty.@@oldscratch3535
Don't mess up beautiful lever guns
Every time I see a picatinny rail on a lever gun, a little piece of me dies.
Seems like it would be perfect for a red dot. A .357 mag lever gun with a red dot would be very handy.
Ugh. My eyes!
Oh let the Fudd freak outs begin lmao!! "You don't need all those fancy gizmos and such, I tell ye what."
Midwest tin snips are now trash, untill 5 ago I would use nothing less, problem after unusable trash untill today, probably 30 pairs in the last 5 including today, f that trash. Now I have to use Irwin, f u.
Totally agree, Irwin! I only mount Irwin tin snips to my pic rail levergun. I think everyone that does this to a gun like this should mount Irwin tin snips to it. It’s more tactical and upgraded from oh say the proven previous 100 years of proof.
none of that is an "upgrade" it's simply gizmos trying to make a lever rifle into something it isn't
Fills a niche in a market where semi autos are illegal.
I use to think that. Then the Henry X series 357/38 with a threaded barrel came out.
Nothing too extreme but it’s extremely practical.
@@whoshotashleybabbitt4924 semi automatic, or not illegal
1994?
Hideous…but then again I’m a traditionalist Cowboy Action shooter 🫣🫣🫣 …this is why we have AR15s…just sayin’ 😉😉😉