Mauserguy
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About a month ago I picked up a new Marlin 1894c. This is a 357 Magnum lever action rifle. It was hard to find. There aren't many gun stores left in my area, and none of them had the standard rifle. One store had the cowboy version, which really doesn't appeal to me.
Anyway, I eventually found that Big V has them. I checked several of the local stores. They were all out of stock except for one store that had a damaged gun. It looked as though somebody had dropped it on a concrete slab, causing the front site to pop loose and bending the front site blade. I, obviously, did not want that gun.
A few days later, one of the local store managers called me to tell me that a different store had one coming in (I had given her my number in case one turned up somehow) and that they would honor the last sale price. I ran right down and bought it.
With my emotional pregnant wife, and a busy work schedule, I couldn't find time to take her out until Labor Day. My brother and I left in the morning and spent the day out in the desert. He mostly shot his Marlin Model 60, and I tried out the 1894c.
Wow, that's a great gun.
The stock is the smooth hardwood, not walnut, version, but it handled well.
The bluing is nice and deep. The box it came in was marked, "Model 1894CH," though the barrel is marked as, "Model 1894C." I think that it is the standard rifle action dropped into a birch stock.
From a sitting position it would put three shots in one hole at fifty yards, at the point of aim- Without site adjustments!
Shooting it freehand, I could easily hit shotgun shell casings. An old paint can fell victim to the Marlin.
22s would punch a small hole in a paint can, or glance off if it hits on an angle, but the 357 would tear out big chunks of metal.
The Marlin is so Cool!
At the end of the afternoon my bro' and I sat down in lawn chairs, threw back a couple of Coors, and enjoyed the beauty of the California desert. The Marlin is a great gun and that was a great day.
Mauserguy
Anyway, I eventually found that Big V has them. I checked several of the local stores. They were all out of stock except for one store that had a damaged gun. It looked as though somebody had dropped it on a concrete slab, causing the front site to pop loose and bending the front site blade. I, obviously, did not want that gun.
A few days later, one of the local store managers called me to tell me that a different store had one coming in (I had given her my number in case one turned up somehow) and that they would honor the last sale price. I ran right down and bought it.
With my emotional pregnant wife, and a busy work schedule, I couldn't find time to take her out until Labor Day. My brother and I left in the morning and spent the day out in the desert. He mostly shot his Marlin Model 60, and I tried out the 1894c.
Wow, that's a great gun.
The stock is the smooth hardwood, not walnut, version, but it handled well.
The bluing is nice and deep. The box it came in was marked, "Model 1894CH," though the barrel is marked as, "Model 1894C." I think that it is the standard rifle action dropped into a birch stock.
From a sitting position it would put three shots in one hole at fifty yards, at the point of aim- Without site adjustments!
Shooting it freehand, I could easily hit shotgun shell casings. An old paint can fell victim to the Marlin.
22s would punch a small hole in a paint can, or glance off if it hits on an angle, but the 357 would tear out big chunks of metal.
The Marlin is so Cool!
At the end of the afternoon my bro' and I sat down in lawn chairs, threw back a couple of Coors, and enjoyed the beauty of the California desert. The Marlin is a great gun and that was a great day.
Mauserguy
