How the Marlin 1895 shoots

[SuperCub]

IF I sight mine in dead on at 100 off the bags, letting the gun recoil naturaly, with 350grainers at 450marlin velocity it will hit about 3" higher when shot off hand. It is just the nature of the beast.

Sounds like a good way to sight in for a 200yd zero.



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[Johnn Peterson]

You and I share the same feelings about the pistol style grip John, as we have chatted about before. I put a stock from classic pistol style 22" 1895 onto a 18.5" G and found it far more comfortable to pound out heavy loads with the pistol style grip on the short GG.

The stock style made a big difference as far as comfort goes on the 18.5" GG. The straight stock now resides on my classic 22" 1895, it looks better that way in my eyes...

That will probably be the route I'll end up going as well, but a guy on another site mentioned using a big loop lever and found that to be a little easier on the 'pinkies'. I like the pistol grip appearance but I may try the loop first, just for the hell of it. When it comes to a straight stock design, I like it on my english shotgun but that's about it.