It really bummed me out when the Marlin buyout and quality crash happened. I grew up and did most of my hunting with a Marlin 1936 30-30. Lot of boar, lot of deer. Great accuracy, amazing iron sites and build quality.
I know the Henry's are nice now. The X's have side feet as well as the original front tube feed, I'm looking at those now. I guess Remington is owned by some European company (I forget which). Henry is still owned by themselves and is fully American.
It's my dream to go on a bear hunt some day. I'm still dreaming about an elk hunt too!
Well despite remington being shit for many years i think they turned over a new leaf in their marlin line. I believe ruger bought marlin with the remington bankruptcy. Hopefully theyll continue to improve on quality control and do more honor to the name than remington did
I'm going to have to look into this...
Ruger may have purchase Marlin? That would be a very positive turn of events.
I love Rugers. (The founder was a bit of a cunt, but the current company is awesome(from what I know))
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