Best news is the price was agreeable to both of us, and she's in really great shape. It does have the safety, but I do use that while unloading or crossing a stream; but for still-hunting, it's off and I have it on half-cock like it was originally designed.
At the range, I had put 3 shots fired off elbows from the bench into 1" at 50 yards, so she's a shooter for sure. I carried it around the Maine woods on Wednesday and Saturday mornings of this week and never felt the need for a scoped or larger rifle. This sweet little carbine carried and handled really well in the river bottom where I hunted. Now that I didn't connect on meat during the firearms season for deer, I'll switch gears and load up some plinking loads and later next summer I'll develop some XTP hunting loads too. I had sold off a newer Remlin 1894C a year or so ago, as it took a lot of work to smooth up the action, and while it was "OK" when I was done -- I always knew it "wasn't a real Marlin" and there wasn't much I could do about the "just so-so" wood-to-metal fit or the overall finish (which was no where near as nice as this one is). So ever since then, I'd been keeping a sharp eye out for a good one at a reasonable price -- and I believe I have succeeded.
This will make a nice companion to my 39M Mountie and 336 Cowboy 38-55 -- and a terrific on topic posting too!
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Tight groups all.
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