HoosierQ
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I am really loving the Marlin XT Series Bolt Action .22 rifles. I need to make a choice between the 7-round detachable box and the 17-round tubular magazine and I do not have sufficient knowledge of the cons, primarily of the tube, to know how to choose. If the tube held significantly less, or the box at least ten, I'd just go box and be done...but that 10-round "advantage" if it really is one, seems worth debating.
Gotta choose between wood or plastic, blue or stainless. I'll deal with that somehow.
There are obvious pros and cons to each. These box magazines are only 7 rounds...not a deal breaker by any means but still just 7. The tube is 17...wow love that. Load it on Sunday and shoot it all week
On the other hand a box magazine can be easily loaded ahead of time and NOT inserted thus making loading the weapon out of a trunk really easy and one can always buy more mags. With the tube, you gotta pull out that plunger and load 'em in 1 by 1. Only a problem if you need to go from unloaded to loaded quickly. So again not a deal breaker.
The tube magazine is certainly a sleaker profile and doesn't have that protruding little mag sticking down there where you are going to want to carry the thing.
So as far as deal breakers go then there's reliability and or smooth operation. I am choosing a bolt for simplicity, easy of cleaning and reliability. I watch "Swamp People" and all the guys with semi's make for extra drama as the 900 pound gator thrashes about while their guns jam. Kind of dramatic and I am sure played to the hilt for TV but nonetheless, the guys with the bolts don't have those issues...blah blah blah.
So choosing bolt then I want something that will be reliable enough that my soon to be born grandson, Christopher, can still have this rifle when he's my age in 2064 and it'll still be working just as well as when old grampa Q got the thing way back in '11.
So what is there to know about Marlin tubular magazines? Thanks for reading my long-winded post...my boss hates my verbose memos too.
Gotta choose between wood or plastic, blue or stainless. I'll deal with that somehow.
There are obvious pros and cons to each. These box magazines are only 7 rounds...not a deal breaker by any means but still just 7. The tube is 17...wow love that. Load it on Sunday and shoot it all week
On the other hand a box magazine can be easily loaded ahead of time and NOT inserted thus making loading the weapon out of a trunk really easy and one can always buy more mags. With the tube, you gotta pull out that plunger and load 'em in 1 by 1. Only a problem if you need to go from unloaded to loaded quickly. So again not a deal breaker.
The tube magazine is certainly a sleaker profile and doesn't have that protruding little mag sticking down there where you are going to want to carry the thing.
So as far as deal breakers go then there's reliability and or smooth operation. I am choosing a bolt for simplicity, easy of cleaning and reliability. I watch "Swamp People" and all the guys with semi's make for extra drama as the 900 pound gator thrashes about while their guns jam. Kind of dramatic and I am sure played to the hilt for TV but nonetheless, the guys with the bolts don't have those issues...blah blah blah.
So choosing bolt then I want something that will be reliable enough that my soon to be born grandson, Christopher, can still have this rifle when he's my age in 2064 and it'll still be working just as well as when old grampa Q got the thing way back in '11.
So what is there to know about Marlin tubular magazines? Thanks for reading my long-winded post...my boss hates my verbose memos too.
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