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Hope to see these come out soon. Anyone hear any rumblings yet?
See post #4.
Hope to see these come out soon. Anyone hear any rumblings yet?
If you have seen any Marlin of the late production (and I mean late...not a year ago), you want to be very careful with your money.
Quality improved for a while just to drop again over the last couple of months. It's however an interesting development to follow.
Upon opening the box, my overall impression was positive. The machining was good, with finished metal surfaces displaying at, clean lines. The walnut stock is relatively straight grained, which is strong and serviceable. How- ever, the checkering could be improved, and I would like to see the forearm thinned, which would generally make the rifle appear to have a better wood-to-metal fit with an overall trimmer feel. With that said, the buttstock wood-to-metal fit is better than previous production in New York and is on par with New Haven-built rifles. The 6.5-pound trigger pull was much heavier than necessary. Although the action worked relatively smoothly, a good action job would be beneficial and would cure the heavy trigger pull....
...The only small hitch occurred when loading cartridges through the loading gate, which would occasionally bind. By simply holding cartridges in line with the magazine tube, then pushing the nose directly in, cartridges loaded with ease. Keep in mind that this sample rifle is a preproduction version, and company sources assure me that this small glitch will be corrected with production versions.
The 1894CS was disassembled and studied. There are some very minor engineering changes, but the design has remained largely unchanged. Internally the machining is good and in many respects held to tighter tolerances, and is smoother than guns produced in New Haven.
Would that be also for the new 1895 Trapper ?
I've been lurkingaround a few websites looking for the first signs of the 357's hitting the Canadian market
. ATM there are a few 1894's in 45LC/45 Colt at a several different retail outlets, you'll just have to search around.
Epps has a Limited edition, a Cowboy and a couple other 1894's in 45 Colt on their site ATM
Wolverine has a couple as well, a 1894 45 Colt and a 1894 45 Colt Octagon Barrel
I know of another couple of sites, but they are not a sponsors so I'll not mention.
The 1894's in 44 Mag/44 Spl's have been slowly but surely disappearing from the retailers racks since Christmas. Glad I got my 44 Mag/44 Spl when I did, not many left out there.
I've owned two of these in 44Mag and they were both garbage, cycled horribly and not accurate at all. They were both JM stamped guns as well, I can only imagine what Remington can do with the design.
Sorry to hear you had two poor quality JM Marlins. They can be hit and miss on the Remington made models, but the JM Marlins are usually pretty good. On both JM and Remington rifles I have had to polish the internals and do hammer springs, etc. in order to make them cycle flawlessly.
I have not experienced the accuracy issues you spoke of, but I certainly empathize with you!.....
Not sure what will happen now with the restructuring and bankruptcy issues. I wish Remington and Marlin well, I hope to get a 1894SBL in 44 magnum one day!...![]()
They are a great concept, small, light gun chambered in 44 mag, unfortunately they don't seem to get it sorted out 100%.
A few months ago I couldn't find any in 45LC. Stopped looking. Thanks to you post I now own one.
Good stuff, now all of us are waiting on your pictures, range and quality control report
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I've owned two of these in 44Mag and they were both garbage, cycled horribly and not accurate at all. They were both JM stamped guns as well, I can only imagine what Remington can do with the design.
What happened is that you owned the late production JM rifles. They were of much lower quality than the older counterparts.