Marlin 1895

No, it's just cheap labour and nobody cares for good quality anymore (their not paid good enough to care anymore)......we are in a throw away society now,,,,,,,,,,just my take on things
 
I was stuck on the JM models for way too long and finally realized my chances at getting a 'hands-on' inspection before buying was about zero. I walked into Reliable and 15 minutes later I had found my 2014 SBL. External quality of the product was very high. It took some evenings getting the internal finish to where I wanted it as well as smoothing the lever edges etc. I got some great advice on here on how to address the fact that it wouldn't cycle perfectly upside down if cycling slow. It is now perfect and super smooth. I cycle it just for the pure joy of it. No way I could expect to buy a gun finished to the degree it now is for what I paid.

Consider one advantage of a stainless model is the ease of refinishing. Whatever you want, do a hands on inspection of the fundamentals as Claven said, then give it some love and I expect you will be as impressed with yours as I am with mine. I think it might be my favourite, and that is saying something.


Claven2 said:
Every maker from time to time puts out a lemon. This sort of error does happen, though only rarely. Last I checked, Remington was having the barrels hammer forged in Ilion, NY. I think they forge long stocks of rifled barrel and then section them as needed into shorter lengths. It sounds like you may have got one from up at the end of the forge mandrel, which is not supposed to be made into a barrel! oops!

The 2014 Remlin guns are generally thought to have improved over the 2009-2011 era guns that were really really bad. The two I own needed minor work to run well, but after a little tuning they run as nice as an early JM gun. I would suggest exchanging it for another 1895, but this time cycle some snap caps through it first, make sure the sights are indexed and look down the bore first to make sure you will be happy!
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WetCoast said:
I was stuck on the JM models for way too long and finally realized my chances at getting a 'hands-on' inspection before buying was about zero. I walked into Reliable and 15 minutes later I had found my 2014 SBL. External quality of the product was very high. It took some evenings getting the internal finish to where I wanted it as well as smoothing the lever edges etc. I got some great advice on here on how to address the fact that it wouldn't cycle perfectly upside down if cycling slow. It is now perfect and super smooth. I cycle it just for the pure joy of it. No way I could expect to buy a gun finished to the degree it now is for what I paid.

Consider one advantage of a stainless model is the ease of refinishing. Whatever you want, do a hands on inspection of the fundamentals as Claven said, then give it some love and I expect you will be as impressed with yours as I am with mine. I think it might be my favourite, and that is saying something.
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Smoothing the lever edges!!! Are you serious?
 
Too hard for my liking. If they had been on a blued gun I would have left them, so nothing catastrophic. Because it is stainless, I broke the edges on anything I could find. On the lever I smoothed it out much more.

It is my feeling that one gets a lot of gun for the money with the SBL so I don't mind finishing it exactly to my liking. Lots of parts available too if one goes too far on a part as well.

Now if I could just find a 16" barreled version as well. :)

Buster95 said:
I mean your rifle comes with hard lever edges from the factory?
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