Originally Posted by
Remmy4477
An interesting safety feature on the marlin 1895, 336 and 1894.
If you have a round in the chamber but are not ready to fire and you let the hammer all the way down, not on the second notch but all the way down, then you pull back the hammer and pull the trigger, nothing happens other than the hammer falling but nothing going boom.
You must reset the firing pin. Pull the lever down about 1/3rd the way and back in the firing position, this resets the firing pin.
Me and a friend of mine discovered this on his 1895cb, he'd lever a round and set the hammer down to readjust his glasses or position then he'd pull the hammer back and same thing, click but no boom.
At first he thought it was either a lite primer strike or a dirty action or even a bad primer but it happened quite a few times. He investigated and found this little safety feature.
We tried the same thing on my 1895cb and my 1894 and had the same results, no boom till the firing pin was reset.