i just got a 1950 336 in the mail today and it has both sights off to the right a few degrees. will this affect accuracy. can it be fixed. i could live with it i guess as long as it still shoots straight... i guess. But dammit it's bugging me! I've heard this is a common problem with marlin. Anyone else have an experience with this?
Old 336 with crooked sights
- Thread starter mikeystew
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Without seeing it I'm hesitant to make any suggestion, but shoot it first and see where it hits, then drift the sights over with a brass rod to where they should be.
I got a basket case 1956 Marlin (branded Sears Model 45) last year with no sights and fixed it up a bit and put a receiver sight on the back and a 2nd hand front sight on the front after I had no success with the scope as no matter what I did it was still shooting 3 feet high at 10 yards.
I got a basket case 1956 Marlin (branded Sears Model 45) last year with no sights and fixed it up a bit and put a receiver sight on the back and a 2nd hand front sight on the front after I had no success with the scope as no matter what I did it was still shooting 3 feet high at 10 yards.
I'd just use these, http://skinnersights.com/
As long as your eyes are good peeps are great. I have them on a couple guns and just love them.
As long as your eyes are good peeps are great. I have them on a couple guns and just love them.
Holy schiznat MD! Fixed it up a bit?... Looks like you pulled that thing up on the end of a downrigger, lol. Seriously though, nice work man. Is that a cold blue? If so what kind? seriously im impressed, i would have wrote her off at that stage. I bet the whole thing is now a few thousandths smaller than the original whaaa?
A neighbour of mine had a 336 probably 60's vintage. It too had the sights a few degrees off level. It didn't seem to affect close range shooting but that was all he ever tried it at.
Would this have the same effect as canting a rifle at a target?
Would this have the same effect as canting a rifle at a target?
As far as i can tell canting a rifle is more important to avoid when the rifle is scoped. when a scoped rifle is tilted even slightly it will throw off the elevation and windage adjustments. Hence the need to mount it perfectly level. I think with iron sights on a canted barrel... from what i've gathered so far, is that you have to simply try to hold the sights as level as possible. You essentially have to cant the rifle on purpose to ensure a level barrel, to achieve a consistant ballistic trajectory... im confused
A friend has a Marlin 39 22LR. Beautiful rifle, until you look at the scope mount holes; they VERY obviously veer off at an angle. And I mean VERY obvious, to the extent that there is no way that a scope would have enough windage adjustment to get in line. And never mind the fact that the scope wouldn't remotely line up with the barrel. Even if the quality control guy was blind his seeing eye dog should have said something.
Problem solved! re-crowned, and cleaned for what seemed like forever, and im now shooting under 2" at 80yds with the irons. Couldn't be happier! It went from shooting buckshot patterns to being actually quite accurate for what it is.
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