Interesting article on Marlin Firearms in the latest issue of RIFLE mag.

I remember getting a shipment of 15 or so 39As and having only one functioning rifle in the bunch. Extremely poor fit, screws shearing off just trying to get them to cycle. The ones that did cycle were rough to the point they were useless. I couldn't believe rifles that poor were made, let alone allowed past QC.
 
josquin said:
This is good to hear. Although I don't own one, I was under the impression that the Miroku-made guns were in fact very good and I was surprised to see that Pearce thought they were not up to snuff. Here's his quote:



:) Stuart
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Pearce is an Elmer Keith wannabe. He's a decent writer and has some good technical knowledge for handloading revolvers and lever guns, but if I want to hear jingoistic rambling I'll turn on Toby Keith.
 
Johnny Horton was a mighty fine singer of the woods . I don't care for this newfangled stuff they call country . They come out on stage in pretty boy stuff one stitch of the dreaded bieber ..

Give me the classics any day

George jones
Waylon
Roy acoff spelt wrong
Chet atchin
Vern gosdin

To name a few

And I'm 22 yers but I am a hillbillie thro and thro , pretty bad when your post lady calls ya hill billy
 
I can just imagine some !@#$ing brown nosier up and comer drafting all the spreadsheets to prove how much money Remington would save by consolidating manufacturing. It's all profit, so what... who cares about over 100 years of tribal knowledge to making some of the best firearms ever. How hard can it be to pick up equipment, move it and start it back up? There are 100's of cases of companies taking the exact same path and failing miserably, but I just don't understand why they don't teach the brown nosers this in business school.

I spent 2 years looking at the 1895 GBL's and was totally disgusted. I finally settled on an older JM stamped 1895 GS from a CGN'er out here. It's extremely high quality like my 336 and 39A. I just love them. The new stuff I saw at the stores was so disappointing. There was better quality in toy guns and Canadian Tire. The worst was some of the dealers telling me with a straight face that "it will loosen up with use, a little filing here and there will do the trick, etc". It will be years before I ever consider buying a Remlin.

That short term thinking by the "bottom line" guys just cost Remington a huge amount of revenue. I wonder if anyone will ever get fired.
 
Why not? said:
By far! No question about that.

Ted
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Second that!
Marlin is so far behind that it's not even funny.
Older ones were OK, but the newer production rifles (even the last few years of production before Remington took over) were just hit and miss.
No Marlin for me. I have a better chance to win lottery then finding a nice, new Marlin it seems.
 
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Nestor said:
Second that!
Marlin is so far behind that it's not even funny.
Older ones were OK, but the newer production rifles (even the lest few years of production before Remington too over) were just hit and miss.
No Marlin for me. I have a better chance to win lottery then finding a nice, new Marlin it seems.
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I'll third that, Nestor. My first brand new rifle was a Marlin 1894c that I purchased from SIR a year before the Remington recall. I waited 4 months on backorder for a shipment to arrive and was sorely disappointed when I unpackaged the rifle and found the barrel rollstamp smeared, tang chipped, rough hammer machining, etc. The only "good" thing about the Remington takeover was that due to the lengthy delays in getting my rifle serviced through the Canadian warranty channels, 10 months later I had them finally swap the rifle for a Remington 700 at par (for the model I got, and given the prices at the time, this was actually an upgrade). I'd already bought an 80's vintage 1894c, so the warranty rifle was redundant.

Anyways, I've since stuck to older marlins, my preference being the late 50's and 60's vintage when available. The simplicity of the Marlin design and solid top receiver are why I've chosen them over Winchesters. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Miroku Winchester, though, as I have a Miroku-made Browning BPS and the quality/fit is top-rate.

It's unbelievable to me how quickly Remington/Cerebus managed to destroy Marlin's solid reputation, yet I bet all the executives who were involved in that debacle are still well-paid and gainfully employed. If I were a business professor, I would think the Marlin takeover would be an excellent case study on how not to conduct an acquisition.
 
I agree. It's pretty sad story...at least up to this date. There are some rumors emerging about Remington getting things together, but I won't believe till I'll see a consistent quality improvement across the board.
 
Don't buy the guns and remington will get their act together once profits and sales continue to decline. I have no trust that they will. Remington, marlin and mossberg products are guns I will never have in my safe. I have a mossberg 930 and it is a pos. Not sure I can sell it due to the fact it jams all the time.
 
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