Product Spotlight: Midwest Industries Lever Gun Upgrades

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!