Came across a new Marlin 1895 cb 26” barrel in a gun shop today, I’ve been pondering over one of these for a while now but haven’t seen one in the flesh, it was nice, not really heavy and felt pretty handy in the hand, the fit was ok but certainly not as nice as my old Marlins, I could get past that, the wood was very nice, even the ugly digital looking thing by the serial number I figured I could live with if I had to, but once I looked down the barrel and the front sight was canted off to the left I thought now that is ridiculous, I handed to the guy behind the counter and asked if it looked canted to him, his response, yea, but it’s not too bad, I really wanted to like that rifle but I just can’t, all I can think is what else is wrong with it, almost a thousand dollar rifle with canted sights, I just can’t like Marlin again yet, I really want to, but not yet, some day maybe.