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Wish I could say they were mine. I love lever actions. Henry's seem to be the best nowadays, still USA made with good quality. Their new x mods allow loading from the tube or a gate, pretty cool!

Marlin's aren't what they used to be, makes me very sad.

Wish I could say they were mine. I love lever actions. Henry's seem to be the best nowadays, still USA made with good quality. Their new x mods allow loading from the tube or a gate, pretty cool! Marlin's aren't what they used to be, makes me very sad.

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Are those the new Marlins?

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From what I heard, this is why the quality tanked: Back in the mid 00's, Remington bought Marlin and moved the firearm production. They let go of many or all of the skilled Marlin lever action gunsmiths. We have old and new, the new is shit comparatively.

If you can buy an older Marlin on the used market, they are amazing.

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Oddly enough, I don’t own any lever guns. I should, I want to, just never have. I’d probably go Henry if and when. The only Marlin I have is a model 81 wearing the “J.C. Higgins” badge from Sears. It was my Dads when he was a kid. It had an ejection issue when I inherited it and I had it promptly fixed. I fired one tube through it for good measure and put it away. The gunsmith told me to never dry fire it, and that might have been what caused the problem. I’m no gunsmith at all. But they fixed it for $50 so I’m happy. Same guy works on all my old shit.

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Yup, you need one! Stop waiting ;)

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A few years back they made a new facility with new machining for marlins. Quality was greatly increased over previous remlins. If you cant find a jm stamped marlin you want, a recent gun should be fine. I own 2 remlins from their new facility and theyre both good guns.

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Glad to hear that.

That the nickname term for the Remington Marlins, "Remlins"?

The Marlin 336 30-30 my father got around 2010 or so had a horrible fit and finish and was just sloppily put together. I've seen nearly 100 year old ones and they have an really good fit and finish.