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New Marlin/Ruger Lever Gun

I can appreciate sentimental attachment. I can understand price point. And I can even understand brand loyalty.

There are a few thing from my personal experience I can share.

Marlin 60 or Glenfield or whatever they are called
Are finicky and overcomplicated, not to mention the poor quality control over the years.

This is only my opinion of them after working on probably 50 of them over the years in the shop. I finally stopped taking them in at all because there are easier ways to work for peanuts that are more enjoyable.

If you have one that you love I am genuinely happy for you. There are guns I own that are not the best built and are mostly garbage. I am more thinking why ruger would build another 22 when the 10/22 has more aftermarket support, and is a better gun overall.
 
As long as they don’t get crazy with the price, I’m waiting for their 357 lever gun and I’ll get one.I saw an earlier post that mentioned 357 Max. I think it’s a long shot, but I’d like that even better! Ruger are you listening? Lol
 
6.5 Marlin Ruger Express might sell some guns to the new gun buyer. I've always wanted a 25-35 that slings them a bit faster. Really need 120gr bullets imo. Not the 100gr to get MV up scheme.
 
My cousin passed away a few years ago, i was thinking about him and his lever gun. I had gone up to east Tennessee for a week around Thanksgiving time to hunt with him. I got in late and we had just got back from eating some dinner at some little country store and He says come with me for a second. So we walk north out to the end of this ridge that his grandfather's (my Uncle Joe) house was built on. And you could see the whole valley. He points off to the left and i could see a bunch of flashlights bobbing up and down as half a dozen people were over in the dark doing something. I asked him what was going on? He tells me that those are "scum bags' over 2 properties to the west digging in and Indian mound stelling artifacts. They he holds up his 44mag lever rifle that I had not even noticed he was carrying and empties it at the people robbing that burial site. It's so far off hitting one of them would have been almost impossible. I scold him and tell to stop he might hit somebody over there. he replies "I hope I do. Those grave robbers need to be shot! That could be our ancestors buried over there." He slowly walks back to the house and i could see vehicles going in all directions. He had a real sence for what was right and wrong and no amount of law or law enforcement got in the way of what he believed.
 
ebb said:
My cousin passed away a few years ago, i was thinking about him and his lever gun. I had gone up to east Tennessee for a week around Thanksgiving time to hunt with him. I got in late and we had just got back from eating some dinner at some little country store and He says come with me for a second. So we walk north out to the end of this ridge that his grandfather's (my Uncle Joe) house was built on. And you could see the whole valley. He points off to the left and i could see a bunch of flashlights bobbing up and down as half a dozen people were over in the dark doing something. I asked him what was going on? He tells me that those are "scum bags' over 2 properties to the west digging in and Indian mound stelling artifacts. They he holds up his 44mag lever rifle that I had not even noticed he was carrying and empties it at the people robbing that burial site. It's so far off hitting one of them would have been almost impossible. I scold him and tell to stop he might hit somebody over there. he replies "I hope I do. Those grave robbers need to be shot! That could be our ancestors buried over there." He slowly walks back to the house and i could see vehicles going in all directions. He had a real sence for what was right and wrong and no amount of law or law enforcement got in the way of what he believed.
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Sure doesn't sound like he had a good sense of right or wrong considering he was hoping to kill people digging in their own property, burial site or not
 
Not their own property!!!! A historical site protected by the state of Tennessee and the federal government. Why would they be there digging with flashlights in the middle of the night if they had any rights to be there? They are grave robbing thieves. When this happened, I was much closer to the way you think than i am now. After Ive had time to think about it he was right you and I are wrong. European settlers did many wrongs to Native Americans to dig up and rob their graves of their very bones to buy crack cocaine is the straw that broke my cousins back.
 
ebb said:
Not their own property!!!! A historical site protected by the state of Tennessee and the federal government. Why would they be there digging with flashlights in the middle of the night if they had any rights to be there? They are grave robbing thieves. When this happened, I was much closer to the way you think than i am now. After Ive had time to think about it he was right you and I are wrong. European settlers did many wrongs to Native Americans to dig up and rob their graves of their very bones to buy crack cocaine is the straw that broke my cousins back.
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Fair enough that it wasn't their land, still to be hoping to kill someone over a burial mound? That would still be cold blooded murder any way you view it.

Land has been forcibly taken all over the world, the Native American's weren't the only ones. There is no society that hasn't had warfare. If the America's would have been conquered a couple hundred years earlier, they would have been totally wiped out because that is how was was before. Instead they were herded onto crappy land after total defeat.

What happened back then is despicable to our modern views, but it was done hundreds of years ago. You can't place modern views on past events.
 
Alex Wheeler said:
I have had marlins in 22, 30-30, 357, 44, and 45-70. They are all gone but the 44. Its the sweet spot for me. More energy than a 357, mild recoil, quiet enough i dont need ear plugs, and just plain fun. I will never sell that one.
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I wouldn't mind finding a 41 Mag. Pretty much, same reasons. I like the caliber, especially in a short rifle...fwiw.
 
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Alex Wheeler said:
I have had marlins in 22, 30-30, 357, 44, and 45-70. They are all gone but the 44. Its the sweet spot for me. More energy than a 357, mild recoil, quiet enough i dont need ear plugs, and just plain fun. I will never sell that one.
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I don't blame you.

Marlin 1894 .44, for me. Passed on a couple of Winchester Trappers in .44mag, some years back. (Kicked myself, then; still do. Ouch.)

There's something satisfying about the .44mag in a handy lever-action. It's effective out to ~125yds. In the "right" load it can hit hard (ie, for a mid-sized deer). It can be accurate, has relatively mild recoil compared to many "big" calibers. In a 16" or 18" barrel format, it can be about as easy to handle as anything.
 
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