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Anybody with any experience with this particular .22?
Paco has some info on it, but the cross branding makes it difficult to pin down much information, at least for me.
Looks like a fun lever action to work with, but the one I'm looking at was a project. The stock finish has been sanded bare and a new buttstock plate was borrowed from a 60 to replaced the cracked original (fits, apparently). Theoretically, a nice coat and sealing should be all that's required. The $200 doesn't sound horrible, but baseline prices seem hard to find.
WHAT SAY YAS?
(Appears to be the tube fed model)
...Proud owner of the 11.43×23mm automatic using depleted Thorium rounds.
My first ever gun was a 56 Levermatic made in 1964 (I think the last year of production) and I did my very best to wear that gun out. Wish I still had it. Very accurate, as you would expect from a Marlin and had a short throw lever, making it fun to shoot, as well. Not a great trigger, but not bad, either. The 56s and 57s are not at all common and always get interest from Marlin collectors, but that's a decent price. I would certainly pay it it just to add another Marlin to the collection and, of course, for memory's sake. They are a well made gun.
I had the M57 magnum version, while I was stationed in NC, in 1966, and used it for long-distance calls on (dirt) roadside rabbits, while walking the roads. .
It was then a new outlook on leverguns, with the short throw only requiring the fingers to be flexed down/back, w/o removing the hand from the stock wrist.
It took a bit of acclimation, to work the action fast - but it was a fun gun.
My old Numrich Arms catalog has a section showing all the store brands by name/model number cross referenced to which gunmaker actually made the gun.
It is quite handy.
