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cshold
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Vintage Picture Question.

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What make & model gun?

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TomF
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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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Marlin 1894. You can see the lever pivot in the shadow cast
Also looks like a takedown model
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Good job, Tom! I blew the photo up and couldn't see anything looking at the rifle. Never noticed the shadow.
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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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Good job, Tom! I blew the photo up and couldn't see anything looking at the rifle. Never noticed the shadow.
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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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I would go with an 1893 Marlin based on the shadow. 94's diddn't have that distinctive curve.
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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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Could very well be a 93. The barrel and mag tube look awful skinny. Receiver looks long enough for a 93.

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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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Yep - Model 1893/93.

It's definitely a long action, and not the short/pistol case action Model 1894/94.


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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

Post by BrentD »

What about the barrel band?

Seems like the 93, half-mags that I can think of (very few, I'm no Marlin expert) have caps like the one in the GI advertisement, not a band like this one.

I'll add that whole forward 1/3 or so of that forearm looks oddly tapered to me.
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I tried pullin' in more detail on the action, but, alas... no hammer... It definitely ain't a short action... It "could" be a '73. But not seein' the hammer details, the lines of the receiver and that prominent pivot shadow... I'll go with a TD 1893/93.

Actually, after fiddlin' w/it more... it's lookin' more like a mdl 94 Winchester!!!
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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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I agree 1893/93. :wink:
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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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It's a Marlin...the case coloring gives that away, and like Tom says, it's a takedown model, half mag. Later on I'll take a pic of a 94 side by side with a 1893. Right now I have to bring wood in and feed the horse before it gets dark. Ain't easy being a white guy with a job and chores.----6
(An hour later)........
OK, Here's the pic with the 93 on top. The gun in the pic is an 1893 takedown half mag. Yes, I'll take it.

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sureshot
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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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Looks like a Marlin '93 TD to me too, but Brent is right, there's something not right about the forend cap area. Maybe just the light.

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Re: Vintage Picture Question.

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forend shape and cap is like the old stevens high power which also has similar lever pivot etc. they arent case hardened however.

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