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airedaleman

TedH wrote:I can't say about the current state of what Remlin is producing, but given the options you mention, I'd be hitting the Pawn Shops for an older Marlin.

Really good advice.

airedaleman

I have (what I think anyway) is a low serial number, under 5000. Who would I talk to in order to help me find the dom? It is my understanding that Marlin doesn't have the same type of "lettering" that Winchester and other gun manufacturers do. Check with the folks at http://marlin-collect...

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If it isn't true, it ought to be, and probably is, in part, in more than one situation in this Land of the Free Beacuse of the Brave.. God Bless our Troops, and their Families and Friends, and their Four-Legged Buddies that they leave behind.. Until They Can All Come Home.. Lest We Forget Thanks, B...

airedaleman

Great save, and a really nice carbine now! (Imagine what this design would cost to manufacture these days...)

airedaleman

In these situations when dealing with strangers One never knows what they are dealing with until it is too late...As a kid of about 16 a Lady was stranded in the snow in front of My Dad's house at night. I went down to the road to see what was going on and She had a flat tire. I was able to find th...

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Ears and eyes open, mouth shut, tell him to find a good NCO and listen for a while. And get him a good knife. Pocketknife and multitool, I'd recommend a Zero Tolerance for the folder and a Victorinox for the multitool. Will do! Two uncles, my youngest son Ted (combat engineer, Desert Storm) and son...

airedaleman

Just came back from West Point after attending my grandson's graduation. Lt Samuel J. Craig USA. Infantry (added three to get infantry). Next stop Ft Benning, then to Ft Bliss (duty post), and Ranger training in Florida set for March. He's a good one. Please wish him well...

airedaleman

Very nice and appears to be in really good condition! Any maker's label? Looks European...

airedaleman

COSteve wrote:Beautiful wood, however, doesn't the forestock look pregnant?

What I said...
Forearm mimics the beavertail forearms on early 336's. Nice, nice little rifle.

airedaleman

Looking at the style of that wood, I'll bet there's a companion 336 out there somewhere...

airedaleman

I must admit the long stocked military levers are growing on me more and more. I know this a major small point but I like the receivers of traditional levers. Nothing hand carries like a Winchester 94 or Marlin 336 style action with iron sights. This and the easy reload function of a lever is what ...

airedaleman

RE: lack of a loading gate. My SWAG -- Scientific Wild Arsed Guess -- it is far easier and cheaper for the Henry Company to manufacturer a lever action rifle with a magazine tube "loading port" than to design and machine the receiver, fit, and install a loading gate, etc. My take on it, t...

airedaleman

Those side loading gate patents have long since expired. I think Henry just wanted to keep it as simple as possible (fewer parts and less machining). I wish them luck with it. That makes no sense. They are making the .410 RioGrande with a loading gate and it's essentially the same frame/cartridge s...

airedaleman

"Ride the High Country " with Joel McCrae and Randolph Scott. Model 8 Remington, Model 1895 Winchester, and a young Mariette Hartley.

airedaleman

Pitchy, do you have the rest of the 16 gauge tools to go with the roll crimping tool?

airedaleman

The lower one - on the Marlin anyway - is the trigger plate reinforce screw. It was added to the Model 1893 shortly after its introduction when it was found that the trigger plate could flex after repeated cycling and take a set. It was carried through all the iterations of the basic 1893 action (i....

airedaleman

Beaker wrote:
airedaleman wrote:
Beaker wrote:The fact is Henry Rewpeating Arms Co. now owns the rights to the Henry rifle name as they purchased them.
From whom?

From Winchester.

Are you serious?

airedaleman

Beaker wrote:The fact is Henry Rewpeating Arms Co. now owns the rights to the Henry rifle name as they purchased them.

From whom?

airedaleman

I wonder if a wee bit of your ashes could be mixed in with gun powder for reloads??????????? That way you would be going out with a bang. : One of my cousins had a portion of his ashes loaded into some shotshells. MC, during the memorial, proceeded to fire them in Mick's favorite O/U at intervals, ...

airedaleman

Personally, I could care less. The last thing on my family's mind when I buy the farm is gonna be distant friends. Besides, they will be busy fightin' over my Winchesters and Colts. ----------Sixgun Me too. The good guns have been distributed (my family appreciates good firearms). No obituary, imme...

airedaleman

Top drawer, man! Enjoy...

airedaleman

I thought the paper labels were completely phased out by WW2, but it wouldn't be the first time I was completely wrong. :oops: Back in the 50's (I started handloading in 1954 - Herter's gear all the way - for the 6.5mm Arisaka carbine that a cousin brought back from the Phillipines) even DuPont's I...

airedaleman

Sometime in the 60's I'd say. Back in the mid and late 50's, my high school best friend and I were still buying gunpowder in red oval center-pour one -pound cans with that label pasted on. (The label predates the advent of smokeless powder.)

airedaleman

Doctored shot loads are illegal - at least for hunting - just about everywhere...

(And not a good idea for home defense, either. Consider explaining the need for a "more effective" buck shot load to a jury, criminal and/or civil.)

airedaleman

Hobie wrote:Pedersoli bought H&R's tooling but did make the change noted. These are supposed to be good guns.

Hobie, do you have any idea of when did the sale took place?

airedaleman

Two good places for info on your Ballard: http://wwww.marlin-collectors.com and http://wwwmarlinowners.com

airedaleman

Given 6pt's comments and what I've seen on the internet, I'd say that your friend's got a heck of a deal going! I must admit that I'm astounded at the prices Marlins are bringing these days... Back in the early 60's I decided I was going to collect old Marlins; no one seemed to be interested in them...

airedaleman

[ I'm going to buy a Henry pump gun... ] IMHO, that's contra-indicated. While I luv the Henry leverguns, the pumpguns have been problematic for Henry - the magnum version so much, that it's been diecontinued. If ya GOTTA have a pump .22, and can't lay yer paws on a Winchester, I think about a Tauru...

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Lucian Carey, Pete Kuhloff, Larry Koller, and Pete Brown. Match them to magazines and you win a Mars bar. (Figuratively, of course. They don't mail well..)

airedaleman

Bought myself a basic Henry for my 70th birthday back in '09. First "my own" 22 since my Model 62 Winchester was stolen back in 1975. While it's not the Winchester, it's a heck of a good gun for the money (the wood puts most other manufacturers' walnut to shame), and I've put about 4,000 r...

airedaleman

Hagler, thanks for the pictures, especially of the 49R. It confirms what I originally thought after seeing the schematic at Ithaca's website - that the repeater had a reciprocating bolt and self-cocking hammer. I went off on a tangent when the only pictures I found of the 49R showed it with the acti...

airedaleman

Mescalero wrote:Pete44ru,
What is the skinney on reliability of the 49r?

Not Pete, but all indications are not good. Buy a Henry.

airedaleman

Beg to differ, Hobie. There was ONE (1) 49R, a very problematic product. I came across a good series of pictures of one and it appears that it retained the dropping block of the Model 49. I expect 765X53 is correct about the Spencer-like operation of the 49R. Again, the Erma design was marketed as t...

airedaleman

Ithaca marketed the Erma design as the Model 72. There was a Model 49R (R for Repeater) which bears an external resemblance to the single shot, but has a reciprocating bolt rather than the single shot's Martini-style dropping block.
There's a schematic of the 49R at Ithaca's website.

airedaleman

55 years ago today I made the first open declaration - in the form of a rather odd Valentine card - of my interest in a certain young woman. She's been my wife, the mother of our six children, my support, my lover and my best friend for the past 51 years and seven months. I love her, and I like her!...

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Regardless of what I've said before... their copy of the Erma Werke's little .22 lever gun is well done. Not too surprising as the Imperato family was involved with Iver Johnson, an importer of the Erma Werke's M1 .22 cal copy. Frankly, if they'd just kept, or re-opened as Iver Johnson, ALMOST all ...

airedaleman

Just finished a magazineful of CB longs in my basic Henry lever action. I bought this for me for my 70th birthday back in 2009. Just realized there are no dire rollstamped warnings or instructions on this firearm!
Guess the Imperato family trusts the user....
Anty Henry bashers care to comment?

airedaleman

Wish they'd have listed the calibers . Don't want to bid unless I can get components and dies...

airedaleman

With the price of Bee ammuntion being what it it, you're going to have to start hand loading. Get a set of Lee dies with the factory crimper. The Lee die will crimp the case on any jacketed bullet. Also, when you roll your own, you'll be able to get bullets with a cannelure - specifically meant for ...

airedaleman

Expect they didn't pay the bill. And it seems we have some sensitive souls here...

airedaleman

Serial number on tang and in butt stock inletting bear no resemblance to Marlin serial numbering system in use then...
Valuable sling loops on that carbine!

airedaleman

My brother has a Danish/Norwegian? Krag that has he says has been "mildly sporterized". He thinks that it is the original barrel, rechambered and bored to 45-70. He bought it exactly the way it is pictured. The receiver is marked GEVAERFABRIKEN KJOBENHAVN 1905 M.89, with 45-70 etched insi...

airedaleman

Interesting education about the lockplates. Thanks for straightening me out. I must be getting old, because every lock plate I can conjure up in my mind's eye has a date on it. Conditioned mental reflex, I guess. By the way, when I was a teen-ager I used to frequent the original Bannerman's store on...

airedaleman

Remarkable exchange!

Henry apparently builds a 30-30 that provokes a great deal of controversy, some of it concerning the rifle...

airedaleman

About 50 years ago, I bought an original 1873 carbine. It was virtually new with the exception of the first two (forward) inches of the barrel which were lightly pitted inside and out. It was serial number 273. I paid $25.00 for it. I wonder where it is now... OTH - I believe Springfield did date th...

airedaleman

Handsome revolvers. Great photography.

airedaleman

No top strap facilitated cylinder change. Remington designers went the Colonel one better, however.

airedaleman

Go to the Marlin Owners website. Member there offers them for sale.

airedaleman

...And the chain tread was viciously slippery when worn. Went on my face - and my butt - several times when wearing a hand-me-down pair.) I solved that problem: http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d197/sass93/IMAG0035.jpg These things are like sliced cheese... convenienent and does the job! Now that'...

airedaleman

Back when I was a kid looking forward to those two catalogs, Bean would replace worn lowers free. (And the chain tread was viciously slippery when worn. Went on my face - and my butt - several times when wearing a hand-me-down pair.) Big AP story on Bean's anniversary in the Business section of toda...

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