The new Marlins are running $620-650 hereabouts in KY. I shot one the other day with some hot 170gr sierras, love them and worked slick as snot. He had just bought the rifle new. The wood and fit and finish was first class. He also had a new Rossi he had traded into at the LGS, and it ran like a champ, was smoother than the marlin, and shot the same loads very well, shot some 158 JSP's thru it benched and it wadded them all together at 50 yds.