Were all pre-safety 1894Cs made with Microgroove rifling, or did they switch back to Ballard rifling prior to introducing the safety?
Related question... possibly a religious one...
Any real diff between the two in terms of performance, with and without cast boolits?
Haycock
Marlin 1894C Microgroove/Ballard Models
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Certainly don't quote me on this as I'm working from a very shakey memory, from someone who only looks at Marlins in passing, but... I think it was the early-to-mid '90s in response to the Cowboy Action Shooting crowd. I know friends that purchased new ones in the late '80s were Micro-Groove, the change over was gradual with differrent calibers changing first or as introduced. Seems to me the .45 Colt were introduced in ???? and they were only ballard rifled. Maybe a nicely worded email to Marlin would elicit the information from a potentially knowledgeable source?Haycock wrote:So, the safety cam ein during the early 80's.......
What about the switch from Microgroove to Ballard?
Haycock
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Check. Thanks, Griff.Griff wrote:Certainly don't quote me on this as I'm working from a very shakey memory, from someone who only looks at Marlins in passing, but... I think it was the early-to-mid '90s in response to the Cowboy Action Shooting crowd. I know friends that purchased new ones in the late '80s were Micro-Groove, the change over was gradual with differrent calibers changing first or as introduced. Seems to me the .45 Colt were introduced in ???? and they were only ballard rifled. Maybe a nicely worded email to Marlin would elicit the information from a potentially knowledgeable source?Haycock wrote:So, the safety cam ein during the early 80's.......
What about the switch from Microgroove to Ballard?
Haycock
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