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Usually the first giveaway of a "faked" Marauder will be the foreend. It will look too long compared to the short barrel. If you have a 16.5" barreled 336RC with a W,Y or Z prefix, rounded lever and short forend it will almost always be a Marauder. I have owned three 30-30 and one 35 ...

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I can't resist the looks of a Ruger 1A, and have bought several over the years. Each time remember why I sold the last one when I try to mount a scope on it. I hate crawling a stock to get a good sight picture.

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The author of this chapter, Horace Kephart, was an interesting fellow. He was a librarian in St. Louis who just pulled up stakes and moved to the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and lived in a little cabin in the backcountry. He wrote a couple of interesting books: Camping and Woodcraft and Our So...

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A good read from Horace Kephart written in 1904. Page 144-45 has a neat old table with 38-40, 44-40 etc High Velocity load ballistics.

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I have one that looks just like it. Does your read "Korea" on the bottom of the windage adjustment housing? I have mine on a Marlin 44 mag and it seems like a good scope. I also have a Jap Weaver K2.5 on my son's H&R Topper 30-30. The rig looks just like yours and works like a charm. ...

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I have one that looks just like it. Does your read "Korea" on the bottom of the windage adjustment housing? I have mine on a Marlin 44 mag and it seems like a good scope. I also have a Jap Weaver K2.5 on my son's H&R Topper 30-30. The rig looks just like yours and works like a charm.

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I bought a stainless 4" Tracker in 44 last year for around $300 (a bargain I know). They can be had for around $400 fairly routinely if you look. I also owned one in 357 several years ago. The quality of both was very good. The 44 was downright painful to shoot more than a cylinder full per ses...

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Hard to beat a good old Smith 10. Looks like you found a nice one.

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My old beat-up S&W 10-6 4" heavy barrel with targer hammer and trigger and Hogue grips is rarely far from my person. I guess you could say it is very important to me.

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Quite possibly the ugliest levergun I have ever seen...

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Those are big. Our Red squirrels are smaller than grays by a long shot, just a size over chipmunks really. They call those little red squirrels "Boomers" over in Appalachia. I have never hunted them they are so small. I have killed a pile of big fox squirrels though. They like areas with ...

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Looks about like mine. The Marlin 336 in 35 is my primary hunting rifle these days. Good choice.

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neat looking old rig. Gotta love those old Remingtons.

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Nice on Ken!

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You have to hold the crescent further out on your arm or the points are going to dig into your shoulder at some point. If you have very big arms sometimes even this approach does not help. I like the looks of them too, but have resigned myself to using only shotgun style butt plates for this very re...

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If the barrel is not ported then it is not an original 336D. A 336D will have an 18" ported barrel and will be blued with a straight grip, checkered walnut stock.

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Here in north central Alabama I see lots of bolt rifles in 270, 30-06, 7mm Mag and 300 Mag. Lots of Browning BARs in those chamberings well. They are usually mounted with some huge 50mm moon scope as well. You see a Marlin or Winchester 30-30 every once in awhile. You almost never see a 35, 32, 44, ...

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Just about every Marlin rimfire I have owned has been way more accurate than it had any right to be. For the price, it is really hard to beat Marlin 22s.

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I have a first year 92 in 38-40. It is a great cartridge. It is very light recoiling, but still hits pretty hard.

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That is a great find. You will be glad of the hard rubber butt plate instead of the crescent steel if you shoot it much. I had the exact rifle with the latter butt plate. It was not much fun to shoot.

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Although I have seen a handful of NY made Marlins that had good fit and finish, most I have personally inspected are pure junk. Even if Remington gets their act together and starts producing quality Marlin rifles again, the damage already done to brand may be too much to overcome.

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44 Special. It can do it all from rabbits to hogs if loaded properly.

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I guess I have owned about two dozen Marlin 30-30s in just about every configuration over the last 15 years or so. I have had many that would group right around an inch with handloads. Just about all were 2" or better shooters, and a couple could not be coaxed into less than 3". Some of th...

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Cant get my mind around a stainless 1886.

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I used to love to listen to my grandfather (born in 1914) tell stories about the 1920s and 30s. He never really made a distinction between the two. He grew up on a farm in Middle Tennessee and was a farmer himself. I don't really think the Depression had much effect on his family. They raised almost...

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Although they really don't make much noise, I find them distracting when shooting or carrying a rifle. I am always trying to make sure they are not clinking against the side of the receiver when my attention should be on other things. They are even more distracting with the leather strips. I just do...

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I have been a member of both sites for years. MO is a great place to find specific info especially about less common Marlin firearms. I have met some great and very knowledgeable people there. I have also bought and sold quite a few leverguns there. That being said, apparently the moderators don't t...

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I gave my son a Winchester Wildcat .22 for Christmas last year, and he got a H&R 30-30 for his birthday this year. He has two little sisters 5 & 3 that love to watch brother shoot his .22. They may end up with a pink Cricket rifle of their own in a year or so.

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I have never actually had to replace the front sights on any of my Williams FP equipped Marlins, but I have chosen to replace all of them. The 3/32" brass bead just seems too big for precision shooting to me. I usually replace the factory sight with a Marbles or Lyman 1/16" ivory bead fron...

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My skeleton weighs more than 190....I could stand to lose a few lbs as well, but my target weight is about 255. I am 6'5" and have a very large build though.

Congratulations on your weight loss. I know you feel better.

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I don't know about the scope, but the rifle alone should be worth $400-475 based on the condition and the fact that the sights are missing. They are very neat rifles. I have had two made in 1979 like the one pictured and they were both very accurate.

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I'll likely carry my Marlin Texan 30-30 with Williams FP receiver sight as my still hunting rifle and my Savage 99F 300 Sav topped with a Leupold 2-7X as my stand rifle. Those two should cover about anything I could encounter in TN or AL.

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I will have to say that I enjoyed No Country for Old Men. The ending was not satisfying in the traditional sense, but I take pleasure in the Cohen's attention to detail and ability to capture local color and proper use of the vernacular in their movies. I really enjoyed Fargo as well even though it ...

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Congrats on the fine bear Ken. I am envious

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357
35 Rem
45-70

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Married a girl from TN who lived in the next town south of Murfreeesboro. Been driving through M'fboro for 2-3 times a year for 40 years. I hate the place. Nothing but traffic, traffic, traffic & college kids. It is not like rural TN but is populated by Asian sub continent immigrants. So many s...

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I think the finished product looks good, and it obviously shoots. With that said, I think Marlin's quality control has slipped a good bit in the last 20-25 years. I don't own any Marlins made more recently than 1980 as a result. You do find new guns that have nice wood and good fit and finish, but t...

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I have lived in Murfreesboro, Morristown, Maryville and Knoxville and have lots of relatives in Middle and East TN. I would move back to TN in a second given the opportunity. The scenery is beautiful, the people are as nice as any you will find anywhere, the hunting and fishing are great and there i...

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I was really suprised by the cartridges listed as well. I am having trouble visualizing a Marlin 30-06 levergun.

Did you guys see the Deluxe rifle option for the 336 and 1894 as well?

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I know that 88s in 358 are rare, but come on.

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That is a beautiful 30-30. Marlin was no slouch when it came to turning out a first class 336 30-30 back when I was a kid. Waaaaaay back! That one was made no earlier than 1983 judging by the safety. You must be younger than I thought Kirk :lol: Seriously, that is one heck of a deal and some of the...

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I am glad they made it right, but you should not have had to go through all of this to get them to do what was right.

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Glad to see my old EL went to a good home and is being used. I miss it already.

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A S&W 19 with a 3 or 4" barrel is hard to beat. They are very well balanced, accurate and about the smoothest revolver you will ever shoot.

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My dad grew up dirt poor in rural East Tennessee during the 40s. I am quite sure a big percentage of the meat they ate came from squirrels, rabbits, possums and the occasional deer or bear they shot. All they had was a couple of 22s, a single shot 12 ga and an old 1873 Winchester 32-20 that they con...

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Some 336 rifles were factory drilled and tapped as early as 1955.

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Very nice looking rifle. These are just about as rare as Marauders and every bit as handy. Good find!

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mescalero1 wrote:I am glad you are getting it resolved, but you should not have had to go through all that to get to this point.

+1

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About 20 years ago I spotted a rifle on a yard sale table. It was an H&R Officer's model trapdoor 45-70 that looked new and had the box for $150. I only had $10 with me. He would not hold it and by the time I got back from the bank thirty minutes later it was gone.

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Gary, That is a great looking rifle and apparently a good shooter too. I take it that is the one you told me about some time back. You have to love those 35s.

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