Marlin 336C a good gun, accurate??

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Hi, I was thinking of getting a new marlin 336C as this is the only new rifle available in .35 rem chambering. If you have/do own one, What is your opinion of the gun? Accuracy....etc.??

Thanks, Scott
 
I don't have a 336, but I do own a 444 and I love it. Great gun, foolproof, accurate and a breeze to breakdown and clean. Buy it, you won't be dissapointed.
 
It's a carbine good for woods distances/ranges. As long as you don't expect to shoot long distances across large farm fields, it's a fine gun.
 
sms0000 said:
Hi, I was thinking of getting a new marlin 336C as this is the only new rifle available in .35 rem chambering. If you have/do own one, What is your opinion of the gun? Accuracy....etc.??

Thanks, Scott
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i have one in a 35 rem i like it
 
Have you considered the 336XLR? it is available in 35 rem, and is supposedly much more accurate that the regular 336. Plus it is made specifically for the leverevolution ammo.
 
Good stuff!

I recently bought a used older model. I have not fired it yet so I can't say about precision. But it's a nice rifle, I like the craftmanship. It's a little heavier than a Mod. '94, but it's well balanced and more powerfull. I think it's the perfect bush gun for deer and black bears.
 
JeffR said:
Have you considered the 336XLR? it is available in 35 rem, and is supposedly much more accurate that the regular 336. Plus it is made specifically for the leverevolution ammo.
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Which means it has a 2" longer barrel. Not a big difference, but not my idea of a brush gun.
 
sms0000 said:
Hi, I was thinking of getting a new marlin 336C as this is the only new rifle available in .35 rem chambering. If you have/do own one, What is your opinion of the gun? Accuracy....etc.??

Thanks, Scott
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Took my first buck with my Marlin 336 in .30-30. Seems to find it's mark when needed. My Marlin 1894 in .357 is due through the door any day now, and I expect it to be just as accurate. :)
 
I have one of the new 336XLR. I shoot it with open sights only and just recently acquired some XS "Ghost" rings. I am impressed beyond my expectations, a sweet gun. It is available in .35 Rem and 30-30.
 
Actually, at the risk of sounding like an idiot and even though I do have an XLR.....what exactly is the difference between one that is "optimized" for LeverEvolution ammo and those that are not? :redface:
 
Admittedly, I'm not a big lever gun fan, but have shot more than a few over the years, mostly doing sight-ins for friends.

I always found the Marlins more accurate than the Winchesters and based on this would buy a Marlin before the Win.


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gitrdun said:
Actually, at the risk of sounding like an idiot and even though I do have an XLR.....what exactly is the difference between one that is "optimized" for LeverEvolution ammo and those that are not? :redface:
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Absolutely nothing, stainless 95 action is a stainless 95 action........the longer barrel I suppose would give the only ballistic diff vs the standard models.
Obviously they will play on the "optimized" crap as a marketing ploy to sell Lots and lots of the Levo ammo too;)
 
I don't own an XLR so I can't say for certain if there are any improvements in accuracy or if it is just hype, but I think a couple of the changes are the twist rate and the type of rifling. I know that my 444 with micro groove rifling won't shoot the leverevolution ammo well, as it can't stabilize the longer bullet.
 
From Guns & Ammo...

"The big difference here is that we have been used to thinking in terms of 100- to 200-yard shooting with 'hunting type' accuracy," says Tony Aeschliman, public relations and marketing manager for Marlin Firearms. "Now we have a lever action that is a 300- to 400-yard gun, and everything tightens.

"Everything changes as far as how we do final assembly and what the tolerances are where the barrel meets the receiver. For example, if the barrel is not fitting exactly square to the receiver in a 150-yard gun, that doesn't really show. But you add another 150 yards to that and it becomes a big factor.

"The reason, of course, is that everything becomes magnified the farther away from the muzzle the bullet travels. A two-inch group at 100 yards becomes a four- to five-inch group at 200 yards and loses any semblance of hunting accuracy by the time you get to 300 yards.

The XLR had to be tweaked because of the power inherent in the new chambering. For example, the screw at the magazine end cap has a stop to prevent over-tightening.

"So it required us to look at things we never had to look at before because they never showed up before when shooting at traditional lever-gun ranges," Aeschliman says.

"For example, with the attachment of the magazine tube to the barrel, just the tiniest variation can have major effects on the performance of the gun. If the screw that holds that magazine tube to the barrel is over-tightened, that can affect accuracy. If that screw is tightened too hard and the barrel starts to warm up and swell, the torque makes it move and it can act as a fulcrum. So we've been tweaking that attachment a little bit so there's not a lot of stress at that point: It's not exactly free-floating, but it's an attempt to keep as little tension as possible on the bottom of the barrel," he says.

In a way, it's like building in flexibility in an aircraft so that there is some "give" to the wings and fuselage to keep them from breaking apart in turbulence. As a result, Marlin has created a "stopping point" on the magazine tube screw so that it can't be tightened beyond a certain point and isn't pressing against the barrel."
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