Sunday, April 02, 2023

Ruger Re-Introduces Marlin 336

 Termite tells me that Ruger is re-introducing the old Marlin 336, an iconic lever rifle from the late 1900s.

Sure enough, the link is here.

When I was a mere youth, the two most common deer rifles in the piney woods of central Louisiana were the Marlin 336 and the Winchester 94. Both chambered in .30-30, they were very useful for deer sized game.  As a matter of fact, the very first rifle I ever bough was a Marlin 336.  I paid $87.50 for it at the now defunct Gibson's Department Store in Alexandria, LA.  This was in the Autumn of 1973.  I suspect that the MSRP is a little higher now. I mounted a Burris 2.5 power scope on it, and the rifle still wears that scope.  IT resides at my son's house.

Even in these days of long-range, bang-whiz cartridges and high-tech rifles, a fellow could do a lot worse than a classic levergun to collect his yearly quota of venison.  I'm glad to see that Ruger is bringing it back.  Now, if they would bring back the Camp rifle in .45 ACP that fed from 1911 magazines, I might pick up one of those for the gun safe.

5 comments:

Termite said...

Now, if they would bring back the Camp rifle...

From your lips to Christopher J. Killoy's ear...

Angus McThag said...

While freaking out about that MSRP, I find that prices on original JM guns has soared.

Old NFO said...

Oh... nice!

Anonymous said...

I’ve got three Marlin lever guns, one in .357mag that has been used for small game, one in .44mag with which has been used to take two caribou with one shot and one in .444 Marlin with which I have taken moose. I don’t have any semiautomatic rifles so these would have to make do at need with someone reloading for me. Less worry about possible confiscation.

Anonymous said...

The camp carbine is a dangerous piece of filthy junk. I’ve owned 3 of them, 2 .45s and 1 in 9mm. While the innards get filthy from the blow back, and you quickly learn to use an empty ink tube from a bic pen to line up the pin holes that connect the inner side plates, and master the finger trick to get the feed ramp in the just-so position to put the thing back together, and you’ve used up the 1 free replacement stock under warranty, (poor stock inletting doesn’t match shape of back of receiver so stock always cracks) and maybe put a heavyweight Wolfe recoil spring in cuz the factory spring wears out quickly, what you find out after about 500 rounds fired is that the trigger sear is badly shaped and not hardened properly. This means that every one of these rifles will become a machine gun at some point, but not a dependable one. Burst fire is fun but you’ll never know how many shots in each burst. But worse than that is the the sear is such crap that the rifle can fire without pulling the trigger. Sometimes it just goes off. It’s a pretty little gun, and the wolfe spring in the 9mm will hold the bolt closed enough to really up the muzzle velocity- 1800fps with NATO +P+ ammo, but every part other than the barrel is just junk. Avoid this rifle.

Drew458