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Gun Review Marlin 1. C. 3. 57 Magnum. RF and I had big plans we were each going to get a Marlin. Magnum lever action carbine and trick it out in dramatically different ways. He was going to build a 2. Century Cowboy Assault Rifle 1. California legal thunder, all wrapped in a weatherproof polymer stock and sporting the latest in tactical lights, lasers and red dot optics. As I opined before, John Wayne might have carried RFs project gun into movie stardom if The Searchers had been written by Tom Clancy and directed by Tony Scott. 8.1 Pro more. My Marlin project would be an updated retro classic a saddle gun that an old cowpoke might have carried, with just a few understated modern conveniences that didnt exist when lever action rifles ruled the frontier. And no saddle ring, since I dont have a horse. The Reality The buttstock snapped off Faragos rifle before he could even fire the damned thing. Since the gun is unusable and Marlins gone radio silent on its return, his plan is languishing in Purgatory. Mine proceeded apace, aided considerably by the timely arrival of the Leupold VXII variable power scout scope. The Gun As weve both chronicled for TTAG, our starting platform was the Marlin 1. C with an 1. 8 inch barrel, chambered in. Magnum.   Its a blued steel and walnut affair, 3. Its tubular magazine feeds one round at a time through a loading gate on the right side of the forged steel receiver, and holds 9 rounds of. Magnum or 1. 0 rounds of. Special. Before firing the Marlin, I replaced the stock beaded front post and semi buckhorn rear sights with ghost ring sights from SX Sight Systems, and mounted their Lever Rail scope mount. As I describe below, I also did a very light fluff and buff on the bolt and lever. You can take your BMW M3 and piss right off because this Kia here, this 2018 Kia Stinger GT, looks like itll be a right good and proper sports sedan. And for a. Adventure Island III Maps TM 1992 Hudson Soft Area 11 Coastal Clash Area 11 Coastal Clash 4096 x 224 11. B PNG ripped KingHyrule Area 12. Format Factory 2.80 - The King' title='Format Factory 2.80 - The King' />I also had to apply a polyurethane finish to the checkered walnut fore end myself, since Marlin forgot that step of the manufacturing process. Wood Fit And Finish My first encounter with the Marlin 1. C was a disappointment. The back half of the stock isnt fit properly to the metal, and the front half was shaped and sanded but not finished. As I noted in my unboxing video, the wood was still in the rough and desperately thirsty for a protective clear coat. Luckily for those of us who didnt score well in Wood Shop class, a can of Gun Savr Hunter Satin spray finish is only 1. Brownells.   The final result looks fantastic especially for my handiwork but it doesnt quite match the grain or smoothness of the buttstock. Ill live with it. Im not sure I can live with the gap between the buttstock and the receiver, because it can let in dirt, sand, water, or stray business cards. Since the tang screw holes have already been drilled, this repair is well beyond my modest woodworking abilities. Q_I/UlpwZqSWZAI/AAAAAAAAAN8/SPGPEnHFt24/s1600/url.png' alt='Format Factory 2.80 - The King' title='Format Factory 2.80 - The King' />Ill probably pay my own money to see if a gunsmith can carefully refit the stock. Marlin cant seem to get its act together fixing Faragos broken ass rifle, so Im not sure I trust them to fix mine promptly. Or properly.   Or ever. For these mistakes, the 1. C earns a grade of C in Wood Shop. Metal Fit And Finish The basic standard of metalwork on this gun isnt just decent its really good. Running your fingers along the detailed machining and fine bluing of the receiver gives you a respect for the level of skilled craftsmanship that goes into such a rifle. Its a feeling you just dont get from an investment cast slide or a polymer pistol frame. But your bliss is soon disrupted by a few glaring deficiencies that make you wonder just how  skilled some of Marlins new workforce really is. An assembler at the factory had marred the barrel band screw with an improper screwdriver, and gouged the barrel band in the process. They also mangled the magazine cap screw so badly that its nearly impossible to remove. Elton John Printer Friendly product information for Elton John from eil. Updated as of Monday November 6th 2017. Do I sense the same assemblers handiwork here Marlin, please spend a few bucks and buy your Bubba gunsmith the right screwdriver. Grade FUnintentional engraving has no place on any new rifle. In addition to the Bubba with the Leatherman screwdriver, Marlin seems to employ a few machinists asleep at their CNC mills. The end of the lever itself the hidden end that engages the bolt inside the receiver showed some crude machining or forging marks, which I very delicately buffed up to smoothen the action a bit. The Marlins square bolt is an extremely complex hunk of milled forged steel, and it slides into the receiver from the rear like a key into a lock. My Marlins bolt fits perfectly into the receiver, but the upper surface of the bolt was so rough that it looked and felt like a metal rasp. This is what it looks like now, after a buffing with 8. It looked worse than this out of the box. Much worse.   The machining and finish would earn an A in Metal Shop, but these little mistakes add up to a final grade of B. Back to school, Marlin. Sights The Marlins handling is outstanding straight from the box, but the stock sights are mediocre at best. The hooded front post and semi buckhorn rear leaf are historically correct especially if you pull off the cheap feeling detachable front hood but they work just like the crappy iron sights on an AK they waste most of the rifles available sighting radius and they block out the bottom half of whatever youre aiming at. As Orwell would say, thats double plus ungood. Luckily theres a whole industry devoted to improving the sights on lever action rifles. Marbles and Lyman have sold millions of their classic tang mounted folding aperture sights, and Williams adjustable receiver sight is among the finest precision rear sights ever made. Cowboy action shooters cant go wrong with any of these, but I wanted to upgrade to something more robust and more visible in poor light and I wanted to mount a long eye relief scope on the gun. There are many ghost ring sight systems available from Wild West Guns, Grizzly Custom Guns, and XS Sight Systems. Theyre all fast and rugged and highly visible, and I chose the XS ghost ring sights and rail because it also provides a long Picatinny rail section for mounting any kind of scope you want. As Orwell also put it, its double plus goodFunctioning I was delighted to discover that the Marlins flaws were, for the most part, only skin deep. Loading, feeding, firing and ejection are all extremely reliable with a wide range of ammunition. I fed the Marlin a smorgasbord of nearly every type of cartridge and bullet shape that you can possibly feed through a. Magnum. Factory loads and handloads, light cowboy loads and heavy magnums, jacketed, plated and lead bullets with round, hollowpoint and semi wadcutter shapes, both. Specials and. 3. Magnums. I basically begged it to jam, but the Marlin fed, fired and ejected every one of them without any malfunctions. The only bullets I avoided were conical bullets because theyre not safe to use in tubular magazines and wadcutters because I hate them. Loading blunt nosed bullets into the tubular magazine isnt quite as easy as it looks in the Westerns. The loading gate is stiffer than it needs to be, and it can be a bit of a finger biter if you stick the end of your index finger in too far. Even once you get the hang of it, round nosed bullets are a tad easier to load than jacketed hollowpoints. Like Buttah as Mike Myers used to say. The trickiest to load my cheapest plinking load, a mild 1. Price List for CANADAArtic Explorer Otto Sverdrup Ship Joint issue with GreenlandShip Joint issue with Greenland and Norway.