Originally Posted by
dikman
Don't cry into your beer, you'll ruin a perfectly good beer! You're probably right, they just want to get rid of you and offering a refund is probably their best option. I'd take it, because it's likely that deep down you will never be happy with the rifle after all this. Time to start looking for something else.
For Marlin/Remington it's too late, the damage has been done and this thread is now out there for anyone searching for problems with this model. In fact, if you do a google search on "Marlin 1895 problems" an awful lot of posts come up, some go back a few years. Seems they haven't learned anything in the intervening years.