D.Z. Arms #3 Hepburn Rifles

#3 Hepburn rifles

All of our #3 Hepburn actions are Wire Cut and C.N.C. Machined from 8620 bar stock (not cast like others) and come standard with color case hardening by Classic Guns, Inc. or Doug Turnbull Restoration

Our standard stock for this rifle is Fancy Grade American Walnut with a metal forend tip and a Pachmayr butt pad

We use Green Mountain Rifle Barrels available in "Round" "1/2 Round" or "Octagon" at no additional charge. For another brand of barrel POR.

These rifles are Standard with double set triggers choice of Caliber, Pull length and Left or Right Hand Action & Butt Stock.

New!!!!

"Hepburn Parts List"

Hepburn Photo Gallery

Hepburn trivia!

Messrs. Hepburn and Marlin
    John Marlin had been making single-shot rifles and even some revolvers since around 1870. For seven years prior to that, he focused on making single-shot pocket pistols. As the popularity of the lever action blossomed, it was only natural that the independent, Yankee gun maker wanted in on the repeating rifle action. By 1881 Marlin garnered portions of patents from Andrew Burgess, E.A.F. Topperwein and H.F. Wheeler, and developed a side-loading, top-ejecting, lever-action rifle. The octagon barrel was 28 inches long, and the tubular magazine held as many as 10 .45-70 or .40-60 cartridges.
    In 1889 Marlin had struck up a professional association with Lewis Lobdell Hepburn, a gun maker who worked for Remington until it went into receivership and a marksman who competed at Creedmoor in 1874 with a rifle he made himself. Hepburn had secured a patent on a side-ejecting, lever-action rifle, and Marlin had immediately recognized the superior engineering and strength of a solid-top receiver. The Model 1889 was a smaller carbine chambered for revolver cartridges like the .32-20, .38-40 and .44-40.
    Hepburn further refined his lever-action rifle, and in 1893 was awarded another patent for improvements in the locking-bolt system and a two-piece firing pin. These improvements were incorporated into all Marlin lever actions from this point forward. The Model 1893 was chambered for cartridges longer than the Model 1889—the .32-40 and the .38-55.