What's the difference between the Marlin and Win.Model's 1894

[Beak50]

I'm not a lever gun nut but I have a winchester 94 30-30.And since I've been on The High Road I alway's hear about Marlin 1894's.I looked the marlin up and as far as I can tell it only come's in pistol caliber's.Is that all there is or is it a completely different gun?Not trying to sound stupid,I had a Marlin 444 and it had a side eject that I cant find on picture's that show a side eject on the Marlin 1894.Any info would be appreciated.I also learned to stay away from "REMLIN"S"thank's to all you guy's.

 

[Abel]

The Winchester 94 is built around the 30-30 & 32 Winchester Special sized cartridge and ejects the shell from the top. The Marlin 1894 is built around pistol cartridges and ejects case brass out of the side. Hit up Google images and study the cosmetic differences.

 

[dagger dog]

The Marlin can also be "feild stripped" in a few minutes and cleaned from the breech, the Winchester takes much more effort to do.

Beore the Winchester AE angle eject models came out the only way to mount scopes was a side mount which you had to drill holes in the side of the receiver.

 

[Sav .250]

The Winchester 94 (pre-1964) is an icon in the land of levers. Everybody should own one.
The Marlin is a blue collar gun that just keeps on ticking. Solid as a rock.
Every body should own one of these as well.

 

[jmr40]

The Marlin 336 and Winchester 94 are comparable in that they shoot longer rifle rounds such as the 30-30. A few other chamberings can sometimes be found in them. At one time the 44 mag has been offered in both of them, but was not as reliable because the short cartridges did not work well in the longer action.

The Marlin 94 and Winchester 92 are the smaller guns designed around shorter pistol cartridges.

 

[Slamfire]

The Marlin 1894 is a copy of the Marlin 1894's produced from 1894 and I suspect production ended in the 1920's.

These early versions were true pistol cartridge rifles, chambered in 44/40, 38/40 and probably a bunch more.

In the 50’s and 60’s with the introduction of the 44 Mag market demand was such that Marlin made a long action 44 Magnum in the 60’s, but from what I heard the long actions did not handle short pistol cartridges well. So they went retro and reintroduced the M1894. It came with the square bolt that it had back in the 19th century. Marlin changed the M1893/M36 to a round bolt in 1948. That is the configuration you are familiar.

The M1893 marlin and M1894 Winchesters were both chambered in 30-30 but they are totally different mechanisms.

The difference between a M1894 action and a M336 action is size, round bolt, enclosed receiver back end on the 336. If you are familiar with the M336 then the M1894 functions and dismounts the same way.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Unlike the 336 which has a modern round bolt side ejecting clearly distinct from the Winchester 1894 square bolt top or angle eject, the Marlin 94 has a traditional square bolt side ejecting, which is not apparent from just photographs.

The Marlin 1893 (parent of the 336) was the counterpart to the Winchester 1894 (.30-30 and other rifle calibers).
The Marlin 1894 was the counterpart to the Winchester 1892 (.44-40 and other pistol calibers).

 

[Legionnaire]

Is that all there is or is it a completely different gun?

Carl N. Brown said it well. In summary,
The Marlin 1894s are fundamentally pistol caliber rifles.
The Marlin 336 comes in .30-30 and .35 Remington.

 

[jmr40]

In the 50’s and 60’s with the introduction of the 44 Mag market demand was such that Marlin made a long action 44 Magnum in the 60’s, but from what I heard the long actions did not handle short pistol cartridges well.

The long action 44's you are referring to were nothing more than 336's chambered in 44 mag. Winchester also tried chambering 44 mags in their 1894 briefly. No, they didn't work as well as the guns designed for the pistol cartridges.