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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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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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I like the Henry rifles with the bigger hand loop cocking lever, like the “Rifleman” uses in that old TV series. I’m debating between .357 mag and 30-30. Of course the .22s are cool too, but I’m about overloaded on 22s.

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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.

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Yeah, remlin is the derogatory term. A 2010 one would likely be junk. The last few years theyve been quality firearms again. What happens next after the remington bankruptcy is yet to be seen. I own both old JM marlins and new-new remlins. Wouldnt touch a remlin from the old facility. Qc really improved the last few years. I still do a bit of hunting with a 336sc .30-30 mfgd in 1949, one of the first years of production, i believe 48 was the first. Has the ballard rifling. Called in and killed 2 bears with it in 2019 but its been a safe queen since then. Too many guns, not enough tags to use them all regularly. Killed 3 bears with a modern remlin .444 in 2020.