38-55 shot very well, but I eventually swapped it for something else. Arnold afterward said he would never rebore a barrel again, but like Sir Edmund Hillary and Mount Everest, he simply had to do it once. 30-30 rebored and rerifled by local gunsmith Arnold Erhardt, who makes everything from flintlocks to modern benchrest rifles. There was also an octagonal-barrel Model 1893 in.
35 Remington, along with a couple of modern Model 1895. 32 Winchester Special (also a later chambering in the Marlin 1893) and. Luckily, the wind blew directly from the bench to the target.Īs a result, I developed a soft spot for Marlin lever rifles, over the decades owning a Model 39A. The final range test took place on a windy spring day.
He took a mule deer doe with the rifle on opening day, and about a month later, I used it on another doe at the vast range of 40 feet, where irons would have worked just fine with my 13-year-old eyes. 30-30 Winchester: In the late 1960s, my father bought a Montgomery Ward “store brand” version of the 336 called the Western Field, mounting a Japanese imitation of the K4 Weaver scope because he couldn’t see open sights very well. This is exactly why I killed my first big-game animal with a 336 carbine in. A century after the appearance of the 1893, the 336 started outselling the famous Winchester 94 because the Marlin could be easily fitted with a low-mounted scope. The side-ejection of the Model 1893 started a long line of solid-top Marlin lever actions, including the Model 36, a slightly modified 1893 introduced in 1936, and today’s 336. 30-30 Winchester got its eventual name, after appearing in 1895 as the. These were often Winchester cartridges, including one Marlin called the. 38-55 and eventually several other rounds. 32-caliber rimfire rounds, and in 1893 a larger centerfire version appeared, first chambered for the. In 1892 Marlin introduced the side-ejection Marlin 1892 chambered for. The first few resembled the popular Winchester lever actions, with tube magazines inside the forend, outside hammers and top ejection – such as the Model 1881, the first repeating rifle chambered in. John Marlin’s original company designed and built many different rifles, but eventually became primarily known for lever actions. 32-40’s original factory load used a paper-patched 165-grain cast bullet and 40 grains of Fg black powder, for a listed muzzle velocity of 1,427 fps, back then also considered adequate for deer. 32 Special arose from the same basic case. 38-55 Ballard introduced in 1876, and today is mostly known as a “Winchester” cartridge, partly because later Winchester rounds from the. 32-40 Ballard, designed primarily as a target round for the Marlin-made Ballard “Union Hill” single shot. 32-40 Winchester appeared in 1884 as the. 30-30, the reason he still has a soft spot for Marlin lever actions.The cartridge most modern shooters know as the. John took his first big-game animal with his father’s Marlin.
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