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338 Marlin Express-Lever Action
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike 338" data-source="post: 709435" data-attributes="member: 41338"><p>I needed to pick up some supplies and noticed a gun shop I hadn't been into. I noticed they had 5 or 6 new Marlin 45-70's to I asked to see one. The guy behind the counter grabbed one, then stopped and put it back and said "lets try another one". I asked what was wrong with the first one? He said "the rear sight fell off". </p><p></p><p>Anyway, it was slow so he showed me all of them. They weren't to bad, if you don't consider the rear sight falling off one "not to bad". Fit was decent. I could see some daylight between the stock and receiver (about .005" or a little more) but it wasn't bad. The action was O.K. They'll smooth out over time. The triggers on all of them were consistently decent. By decent, I mean none of them in any way emulated the "4-stage creep show act alike" that came on my MXLR. They all felt like they broke at 5 or 6 lbs with no creep. The satin finish was decent and consistent on all of them and the blueing was good. There were no obvious flaws such as barrel droop, misaligned sight, so on and on and on and on.</p><p></p><p>All in all, I wasn't appalled. Of course the window dressing means nothing if it doesn't shoot well. They didn't offer to let me do that.</p><p></p><p>Are they still automatically shipping shims with each rifle to level the scope for when they ship barrels & receivers that aren't in alignment?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike 338, post: 709435, member: 41338"] I needed to pick up some supplies and noticed a gun shop I hadn't been into. I noticed they had 5 or 6 new Marlin 45-70's to I asked to see one. The guy behind the counter grabbed one, then stopped and put it back and said "lets try another one". I asked what was wrong with the first one? He said "the rear sight fell off". Anyway, it was slow so he showed me all of them. They weren't to bad, if you don't consider the rear sight falling off one "not to bad". Fit was decent. I could see some daylight between the stock and receiver (about .005" or a little more) but it wasn't bad. The action was O.K. They'll smooth out over time. The triggers on all of them were consistently decent. By decent, I mean none of them in any way emulated the "4-stage creep show act alike" that came on my MXLR. They all felt like they broke at 5 or 6 lbs with no creep. The satin finish was decent and consistent on all of them and the blueing was good. There were no obvious flaws such as barrel droop, misaligned sight, so on and on and on and on. All in all, I wasn't appalled. Of course the window dressing means nothing if it doesn't shoot well. They didn't offer to let me do that. Are they still automatically shipping shims with each rifle to level the scope for when they ship barrels & receivers that aren't in alignment? [/QUOTE]
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