New Marlins?

Quality should be good, check out fit & feel before you buy..
Sure do like my JM's..
 
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I bought a big loop 336 in 2013 and it shoots an inch at 100yds every time with factory ammo, with a crisp trigger and smooth action. That being said, the fit of the stock could be a bit better and it took me checking out close to ten guns to find that one. The rest had nasty triggers, crunchy actions, and such. There certainly were a number of poorly built Remlins off the hop, but they were and are capable of making a good gun. Just don't buy one without thoroughly handling it first. I believe the ratio of good to bad ones has significantly improved. Sidenote, mine is now one of very few things that I would be saving during a house fire. I like it that much!

-J
 
My issue with the new Remington-made Marlins is the fact that they're supposedly made without the same quality steel components or proper heat treatment.

Here's an excerpt from Marlin Forums member running Range Point Precision, which does custom work on Marlin lever guns:
Dear MOF members,

Like many of you here on this forum, we at RPP have been hopeful that Remington would put their considerable resources to work fixing quality issues with the Marlin rifles. We saw some fit improvement over the last year or so, and it seemed the future was looking up. But while it pains me to go negative on my favorite brand, I do feel obligated to share with all of you my recent experience with several brand new 1894 models.

Right now we have eight freshly minted 1894s (in .44 mag of course) in our shop. All of these exhibit Remington’s latest “improvement.” The visible changes are to the bolt. The company, probably in an attempt to address some feeding issues, decided to lop off the lower support tabs on the bolt face. Just so I’m clear, on these bolts the case head is no longer supported underneath, or in the lower left quadrant of the bolt face. In order to trap the case head during extraction, they moved the extractor lower, so it is now substantially below the axis of the firing pin. In this manner the extractor will, theoretically, exert leftward and upward tension on the case head, forcing it up against the remaining upper left support tab.

Trouble is, this doesn’t actually work. The rifles feed smoothly enough, but fail to eject more often than not, because the poorly supported cases just fall of the bolt before they hit the ejector. Or they droop, and the ejector just shoves them against the inside of the receiver below the ejection port. Not good.

As of this writing we have found no easy fixes to this problem, which shouldn’t be a problem at all. Remington could have done away with any and all feeding issues by simply improving the extractor itself, which is all we’ve ever had to do. With the old, tried and true design you could make a couple of tweaks to the extractor and be golden. Now there is real heartache.

In addition to the aforementioned changes, it is evident that Remington has continued to move toward cheaper, softer metal, and this is affects the way the guns feel. Any attempt to remove or polish material results in a very coarse feeling action. I have concerns about long term wear and strength as well.
While we have already committed to the rifles we have on hand, we will no longer buy or take in Remington made 1894s for use as the base for a custom build. This includes, especially, conversions like our .45 acp short stroke.

If you have a new .44 mag with this issue you should absolutely let Remington know they have taken a wrong turn, as I have attempted to do. For our part, we will continue to work on and provide support for JM rifles. We will also do our best to help folks who have issues with late model rifles.

Kind regards,
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Picked up an 1895 classic and tried the OEM sights and my eyes are not what they were in my younger years. So my shots on paper were not as tight as I felt they could be. Replace the sights with the fiber optics and shot a bit better then the OEM black metal sights, but I was still not satisfied with the groups.. So I mounted a Weaver 64b pic rail with an set of inexpensive (4 screw each) rings I had kicking round.

I found this combination was not sturdy enough for the stout rounds of the 45-70. Then I found the DNZ Game Reaper 1 piece rail and rings. This was a great addition to the rifle. I had a shotgun scope kicking around in 2-7 x 32 (70 yard parallax) and this combination proved to be very stable and capable of handling the recoil.

The lever rifle with the latest set-up is accurate and is a different beast to shoot - as others have mentioned. It's more like shooting a 12 gauge with slugs. I wasn't looking for a super long range rifle and this rifle will do the job.
 
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