32-40 rifle with a two-thirds-length magazine owned by a Vermont hunter named Graham Wachsman, who listed it in the classifieds section of an internet chat room. I considered a few over the years but eventually, uh, pulled the trigger on a. However, it definitely planted the seed of desire for an all-original Model 1893. 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. Both of these loads worked great in the little Marlin and made for hours of plinking fun.John took his first big-game animal with his father’s Marlin. 357 Magnum cases that I loaded with a warmer charge underneath 125-grain Hornady XTP bullets. 38 special ammo loaded with soft-shooting 160-grain wadcutters as well as a small pile of. In just a few hours, I had built up a nice supply of. 38 special brass and bullets, I knew I wouldn’t have to get gouged at the local gun shop. I am lucky to have prepared for the ammunition crisis years ago, and my storage has plenty of components to make dang near anything I need. Plus, the gun still has the half-cock safety. I like the old lever guns without the modern safeties, but this one is at least minimal and doesn’t stick out terribly. A hooded front post sits at the tip of the barrel. On the breach end of the barrel, there is the traditional buckhorn rear sight. The rifle featured handsome checkering on both grip areas on the walnut stock. A few hundred rounds would surely loosen it and make it run like warm butter. The gun seemed just a bit stiff, which I’m sure was more about it being brand new than anything else. It’s practically impossible to pick up a lever gun and not jack open the action. When I received the rifle, I set straight to fiddling with it.
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