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Bought this one from the auction on "Proxibid" someone posted here a couple weeks ago !
Got a little worried when it was taking over 2 weeks to finish the deal especially after they had debited or check card !
But the rifle arrived today with a surprise !
Seems after they listed it the seller brought in the original box along with the owners manual !
So i ended up with a LNIB Marlin 1895 circa 1972 the first year they made them ! Also included were a Weaver 63B (old style) base , a set of old Weaver rings and a nice old Weaver V7 .
Parkers , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines !
I need to scratch around and see if I have a nice Weaver K2.5 or K3 I can mount on this rifle .
And I think I'll cast some Ranch Dog 460-425GC bullets and water quench them for the first try in this rifle ! Gonna try and push them semi hard with H322 if I can stand the semi crescent buttplate
Hopefully all this can be taken care of this weekend so this rifle can go in the 2009 deer season rotation
Parkers , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines !
Very nice, Any time you find a pre-safety .45-70 its a keeper, that one is the top of the line!
Mine is from '74 and wears an old steel Weaver K2.5 It's no collector gun, it's had a pad added, and the rear sight isn't original. It's a shooter though.
I've owned it for many years and it's possibly my most accurate Marlin. It likes Rem 405 JSPs over a stout charge of H335.
I took this kitty at 130 yards with it, heart shot, while I was on a night time hog hunt in Texas. This is the next morning. Had a different scope on it then, trying for better light gathering. The K2.5 is back on it now.
Nice find. I had one just like it many years ago. Foolishly traded it off on something else, though that butt stock didn't make it much fun shooting heavy loads.
Warhawk wrote:Mine is from '74 and wears an old steel Weaver K2.5 .
Just so happens when I got it home last evening I mounted a nice old Weaver K2.5 60B !
Hopefully I can try it sunday with some of the Ranch Dog 460-350GC bullets I already have loaded for my 1978 rifle . Might not get a chance to cast any 425's this weekend , but I eventually will try the Ranch Dog 460-425GC in this one as well !
Parkers , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines !
I had one of the early ones when they first came out. The manual had an orange sticker on it saying it had a "modified form of Microgroove rifling, suitable for cast or jacketed bullets". I believe it was a little deeper than standard Microgroove, and was 8 groove. Mine shot Remington factory loads into 1 1/4" groups with a scope and good rest. Never really put it on paper with cast loads.
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt-
Isnt it amazing how many people post without reading the thread?
Started with my old standby load of 5744 and the Ranch Dog 460-350GC bullet and it shot well as it does in my 1978 rifle .
Then I tried the RD 460-425 with 5744 and that wasn't so hot .
Next I went home and loaded some of the aircooled RD460-425 bullets with H322 at 50 , 51 and 52 grains . As well as RL7 at 37 and 38 grains .
The rifle didn't like 50 or 52 grains of H322 . However 51 grains of H322 didn't look bad and it really liked 37 and 39 grains of RL7 .
I wanna try H322 with 50 and 51 again . These loads in the early "New Model 1895's" are hard on the shoulder to say the least . If the guns came with recoil pads they would be no problem but after about 6 shots you start noticing it quite a bit .
Parkers , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines !
Looks like the brother to mine!! It wears a 1.5X-6X Leupold now. My sittin in the evening rifle.
The one that makes sure I won't have to search too far for anything I manage to hit
I had one like that with the BO prefix. They are great guns.
"I have reached up to the gun rack and taken down the .30/30 carbine by some process of natural selection, not condoned perhaps by many experts but easily explained by those who spend long periods in the wilderness areas."~Calvin Rutstrum~
"You come to the swamp, you better leave your skirt at the house"~Dave Canterbury~
Congratulations on a great buy. Mine is a 77 model. I think I recall that some of the 1972 guns were equipped with Douglas barrels and old style rifling. Of course at my age it may be something else I am remembering. 2 million facts, 2 million subjects, 200 connecting lines.
The man who invented the plow was not bored. He was hungry.
Shot all the stuff I had loaded for the 45-70 yesterday afternoon before the gun club meeting !
The 39 grains of RL7 was awesome !
Wanna try 49 , 50 and 51 grains of H322 some more . 53 grains of Varget and 52 grains of H335 .
The IMR4198 didn't do any good for me so that ones out !
Now I'm gonna try the 39 RL7 and maybe some with 40 grains . The 53 and possibly 54 of Varget . The 52 of H322 and maybe 53 grains . Oh yeah and the above mentioned loads with H322 .
Parkers , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines !
win92 wrote:Looks like the brother to mine!! It wears a 1.5X-6X Leupold now. My sittin in the evening rifle. The one that makes sure I won't have to search too far for anything I manage to hit
Truer words have never been spoken. I've never shot anything with mine that went any farther than straight to the ground.
6pt-sika wrote:Shot all the stuff I had loaded for the 45-70 yesterday afternoon before the gun club meeting !
The 39 grains of RL7 was awesome !
Wanna try 49 , 50 and 51 grains of H322 some more . 53 grains of Varget and 52 grains of H335 .
The IMR4198 didn't do any good for me so that ones out !
Now I'm gonna try the 39 RL7 and maybe some with 40 grains . The 53 and possibly 54 of Varget . The 52 of H322 and maybe 53 grains . Oh yeah and the above mentioned loads with H322 .
Mine really likes 53 gr of H335 under a Rem 405 SP. The fireball at dusk is almost as impressive as the recoil <G>.
