New Marlin joins the herd

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New Marlin joins the herd

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This is a .44 Mag - I found it at my local fun shop and made a trade for a refinished (wood) Remington m81 in 300 Savage.

I've been wanting a .44 Marlin and the Remington, while interesting wasn't my favorite, so....

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Bore is excellent and when I cleaned it, it was full of gunk - like it'd never been cleaned. Based on the looks of the receiver area, I'd say it was shot once or twice and put away and knocked around in a closet for about 19 years (I checked the serial and its a 1990 production year ;) ).

I'm really looking forward to taking her to the range - this makes my third pistol caliber Marlin (.357, 45 Colt and this).

I may take a draw knife to the handguard... I really prefer the slender type found on the cowboy models. Anybody else do that with their fat handguard Marlin? Got a pic? :)

Oh, and this will likely get an XS sight too...
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Gunsmith did this for me when I got mine parkerized to compensate for storage-rust while I was away in college.

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Beautiful! I would never sell mine.
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reworked the stocks on this old 39a.
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i like it much better.

spokeshave, if you have one, more controlled cut, less tearout.

good luck, and nice carbine, pokey
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There you go - old timey :)
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O.S.O.K., Good looking rifle. One of my nephews has one, not in near as nice condition as that one, that I keep trying to get away for him. They do seem to me to recoil out of proportion. In other words his kicks like a mule.
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AJMD429,
Can you do a closeup of the receiver/ forearm junction, I need to trim my puzzle gun.
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Nice 44. Same as my first lever-gun. (I got to keep it because I killed my first deer with it.) :mrgreen:
Mine has a Leopold 3-9x50 on it. (I like scopes for deer hunting.) Some people don't like scopes on Marlins, but I love it and it looks great on it. :mrgreen:
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That is a goodie. Great find. 1886.
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mescalero1 wrote:AJMD429,
Can you do a closeup of the receiver/ forearm junction, I need to trim my puzzle gun.
I'll try to do that here next week; if I forget, PM me a slap upside the head to remind me...
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Congrats! Now the question is, do you have a .44 Magnum revolver to mate with that fine Marlin? :D
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I finally bought the same gun about 2 years ago now, but up until then I naively thought of a .44 rifle such as this as a useless toy. I shot a factory round the day I got it, I think my shoulder is still smarting, unbelieveable power and a fine little gun to hunt with and use for targets. Looks like a nice one you got too.
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Thanks, will do.
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Ricky, I have a Marlin 94 cowboy in 45 Colt that I've shot hot loads out of. That kicked some - maybe about like a .243 Winchester. I figure the .44 Mag Marlin will be about the same?
Ysabel Kid wrote:Congrats! Now the question is, do you have a .44 Magnum revolver to mate with that fine Marlin? :D
You mean like this? :D

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That's one of the reasons that I wanted the Marlin :) I have a hunter version too - but this is much more the "companion" holster gun.

Here's the hunter since I'm on a picture posting roll here :oops:

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And then there's this:

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Ruger New Blackhawk or this:
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S&W 696...

.44 Specials - if I decide to go a little lighter :)
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I've got XS Sights on my '94 Marlin in .44. Massive difference in sight acquisition speed...
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MrMurphy wrote:I've got XS Sights on my '94 Marlin in .44. Massive difference in sight acquisition speed...
Oh yeah, they are really nice. I've got one on my 95 Marlin in 45-70 right now and they are very quick and give good accuracy too. Maybe not like a small aperture tang sight, but those are pretty useless for hunting IMHO.
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O.S.O.K. wrote:
MrMurphy wrote:I've got XS Sights on my '94 Marlin in .44. Massive difference in sight acquisition speed...
Oh yeah, they are really nice. I've got one on my 95 Marlin in 45-70 right now and they are very quick and give good accuracy too. Maybe not like a small aperture tang sight, but those are pretty useless for hunting IMHO.
Jac, XS makes a threaded ghost ring that will accept Williams peeps. I have one on my 45 Colt Winchester, I bought it from Brownells.
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I tried that Ricky - but the darned thing couldn't take them without them being turnded down so that they wouldn't bump into the base and prevent adjustment down far enough....
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Now that is NICE ..............Mutt
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I recently put a Skinner receiver peep on mine and I REALLY like it! 8)

http://skinnersights.com/More_Information.htm
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claybob86 wrote:I recently put a Skinner receiver peep on mine and I REALLY like it! 8)

http://skinnersights.com/More_Information.htm
Yeah, the skinner sights look great - the only thing that keeps me from going with them is that they look a little higher off of the receiver than the xs sights.
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claybob86 wrote:I recently put a Skinner receiver peep on mine and I REALLY like it! 8)

http://skinnersights.com/More_Information.htm
Those look really good. Thanks for the pointer.
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