I went with the Marlin 1894 in 357 Mag:
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I went with the Marlin 1894 in 357 Mag:
http://i816.photobucket.com/albums/z...lin1894002.jpg
You'll enjoy that 357 Magnum levergun a lot!
I plan to shoot 38spl with it. I wanted to take it to the range today but got lazy after work.
I will let everyone know tomorrow how she feels.
strahd, tomorrow has done come and is ancient history. How did it shoot for you? One nice thing is you can shoot some pretty light loaded .38 spcl ammo for plinking and whatever then go to a slower powder with a heavy boolit and get some amazing power out of the .357 case. Beautiful gun!
J
Sorry I didn't say anything earlier, but here you go.
First the thing shoots great from the get go. It was a little low out of the box but was shooting fine in no time. I was shooting some really light loaded 38spl. There was basically no kick at all which surprised me (first time ever shooting 38). I plan to pick up some 357 Mag and loading some hotter 38 to see what that does.
Ok now for the other side of this rifle. The action was a little ruff and could use some smithing to make it a little smoother. I do get some jams if I try to cycle the rifle really quick.
I just picked up the same rifle and I have a question. Since I shoot the action game with a revolver, I use nothing but RN bullets for their ease of loading, 8 at a time via moon clip. My question is are RN bullets ok to use in a lever gun? I thought they were ok, but wanted to make sure. I have seen Jacketed RN bullets with a bit of lead exposed onthe tip for the 30-30 so I figure if it's ok in that caliber, that it would likely be ok in this pop gun (comparitively) :)
sarge
lay some on the bench end to end.
strahd.
go shoot about 500 more rounds then evaluate.
runfiverun - I never do anything to a gun until it has close to 500 rounds down them.
500 rounds? for me that's 3 matches or two practice sessions.. I'm itchin' to go shoot my new aquisition.... I have some nice plinkers loaded for it.. leftover Icore practice ammo set up for my 627 and Winny primers... Don't want to waste the Federal primed ammo that is for the lightened 627 trigger.. :)
OK So I went to the range today with my first 38spl loads.
Winchester SRP
6 gr. of HS-6
Beanies 125 Cast Hard Lead
I should have put something up to this to make things easier. This was 10 shots unsupported.
http://i816.photobucket.com/albums/z...arlin1894C.jpg