Marlins new line of 1894

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I'm sure this is something that a lot of people have been waiting for, hopefully these will be comparable to the 1894's of years ago.
I like the stainless/laminate

 
I think they went back to the drawing board on designing the .357 to function .Who knows next year maybe the .44 mag with the correct sized groove and a 1-20 twist instead of 1-38 /Ballard preferably.
 
It’s about time! I don’t need anymore 1984’s, but good to see these back in production. Now they just need to bring back regular production of the 39A
 
mbogo3 said:
I think they went back to the drawing board on designing the .357 to function .
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That'd be good. I love my 1894 CSS .357, it's such a great gun however now that I've got a pile of rounds through it it's starting to jam up at the start of opening of the lever. Read an article saying it's been a design flaw for 100+ years; if that's the case it would be nice if the R&D department put some thought into sorting it out sometime in the next 100+ years...
 
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Buster95 said:
Yeah me too.
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Based on my sample size of one, total junk.

Bought a new 94CB a few months back. Had a consistent two at once feeding issue on the third round out of the tube. If you cycled the lever fast it'd lock up after a quarter inch of travel, 100% of the time

Returned it and got a Win 92 instead which, for maybe a hundred bucks more is vastly, incomparably better in fit and finish. Oh, and it works.
 
I'm an old Marlin lover but now Marlin is dead to me. It baffles me that people are still willing to spend money buying Marlins after all what happened since Rem took over.
 
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I have a 1894c, I think it was made within a year or two of them suspending the series. One of the things I 'hate' about this gun is the wide walnut stock. Hopefully one of these new models, maybe that one without the checkering, might be thinner so I can buy a set from brownells. The factory sights are not that great, when you rack the lever, you're completely off target. You need big buckhorns or ghost ring sights on this rifle if you want to fire it fast, which I'm going to order soon.

The one thing I noticed, which is completely unacceptable, is the front sight post (the bead and the material behind it) is not true to its mount. This means it's not centered, and slightly off, making my shots go to the left. It's not a case of flinching, I measured the thing, and now I need to order a new part. I've tapped it over with a brass punch, but I can't even look at it without wanting to puke. The gun also fires high, with factory 38s and 357's, I'm going to try some different loads to see if I can't change this, but again, changing the sights is probably the best way to fix this. I really don't want to put a red dot on a lever gun, but that may be the easiest fix.

It never jams, the firing pin doesn't 'lite strike'. The accuracy isn't great with 38spl. The loading gate is too tight, and the edges on the lever are sharp enough to scrape skin off your hand if you let it.

I own this rifle because my 38spl reloads cost me about 16 cents a round, and that's expensive, because I'm using campro bullets. If I were casting myself, it would less than 10 cents a shot, which is how it should be.

I also own a Ruger 77/357 stainless, which is a completely different beast because it's a bolt action, but it's 'better'
 
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