The $329 Lever Action Rifle Gun Counters Pray You Never Find

The $329 Lever Action Rifle Gun Counters Pray You Never Find Somewhere between the man at the counter telling you a real lever gun starts at a thousand dollars and the forum threads that call anything built in Brazil a range toy, an entire tier of lever actions got built that neither of them will put in your hands. There are 10 of them. Number one is $329.99 on a big-box rack right now. It holds 15 rounds in the tube, it's built off the same rifle family as the $699 gun sitting at number six, and it comes from the same parent company. Meanwhile, the brand the counter wants to sell you instead went through a federal bankruptcy court in 2020 and changed hands for $30 million. Let's start with number ten. Ten. Marlin Model 336 Classic. This is the rifle the counter points at the moment you say deer and lever in the same sentence. And it's on this list to be the ruler everything else gets measured against. When Ruger brought it back in 2023, the MSRP was $1,239. Some listings this year sit closer to $1,500. For that, you get .30-30 Winchester, six rounds in a tube you load through a side gate, a crossbolt safety on top of the traditional half-cock hammer, checkered American black walnut, and a gold trigger. The 336 has always had a gold trigger.