So I've wanted a marlin 1894 in 44 mag to go with my ruger super black hawk for a while now. I heard lots of horror stories about the new production ones and did my research. I stumbled into cabelas the other day and they had one on the rack. Last one in inventory. I looked it over but couldn't cycle the action due to their "policy". I couldn't see anything wrong with it (checked for crooked sights, missing screws, tube magazine not centered, drooping barrel etc), price was right and the wood actually looked not to bad so I bought it.
Took it home, I took it completely appart. I should mention I'm pretty a nal about guns. I couldn't find any burrs, rough spots, machining marks, tool marks etc. Nothing. I honestly couldn't find a single thing wrong with it. I cleaned it, watched a movie and cycled it 400 times.
I took it to the range today and grabbed some ammo I had loaded for my ruger. 240gr jhp, 22gr 2400, mixed brass. 50m iron sights, shots number 2, 3 and 4. First shot was low and left which got rid of anything left in the barrel from cleaning it last night. I was able to hit the gong at 200m 10/10 with these loads. Also shot bunny fart cast keith I use for plinking and rang the gong with those as well.
I honestly can't complain about anything. It's smooth, feeds swc, the end of the chamber is radiused which i'm assuming helps with this, as well as my full house jhp loads. I have some molds coming and will post how that goes when I can do some casting.
I'm sure there are bad ones out there but this must be a newer one (was inspected jan 1, 2013 but that doesn't really tell me much as to when it was made), and it worked out for me. Just wanted to share.
Took it home, I took it completely appart. I should mention I'm pretty a nal about guns. I couldn't find any burrs, rough spots, machining marks, tool marks etc. Nothing. I honestly couldn't find a single thing wrong with it. I cleaned it, watched a movie and cycled it 400 times.
I took it to the range today and grabbed some ammo I had loaded for my ruger. 240gr jhp, 22gr 2400, mixed brass. 50m iron sights, shots number 2, 3 and 4. First shot was low and left which got rid of anything left in the barrel from cleaning it last night. I was able to hit the gong at 200m 10/10 with these loads. Also shot bunny fart cast keith I use for plinking and rang the gong with those as well.
I honestly can't complain about anything. It's smooth, feeds swc, the end of the chamber is radiused which i'm assuming helps with this, as well as my full house jhp loads. I have some molds coming and will post how that goes when I can do some casting.
I'm sure there are bad ones out there but this must be a newer one (was inspected jan 1, 2013 but that doesn't really tell me much as to when it was made), and it worked out for me. Just wanted to share.
