Stop being blinded by your own ignorance.
At my side job shop, tacticool stuff is not selling well at all. The "braced pistols" especially, absolutely nobody cares about them. We do get a steady stream of people coming in to ask about bolt action hunting rifles in .270 and .30'06, and every wood stocked pump shotgun that shows up sells fast.
Currently casting and loading: .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .38 Special, 9X19, .357 Magnum, .257 Roberts, 6.5 Creedmoor, .30 WCF, .308 WCF, .45-70.
My local shop has dozens of hunting rifles in about 4-5 calibers. Number one is 6.5 Creedmoor. Second is 6.5 PRC. I haven't seen a wood-stocked bolt action rifle on the shelf in a long time. Finding a rifle in .30-06 or .270 is nearly impossible.
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"Luck don't live out here. Wolves don't kill the unlucky deer; they kill the weak ones..." Jeremy Renner in Wind River
I don't really have anything meaningful to add to this discussion. I've gone thru my lever action period and ended up with two Marlins, one of which has the most figured wood stock I've ever seen. The other was a Marlin 30AW(Montgomery Ward, I think) that I gave to my older son. The others are Browning/Miroku 71, just because and Browning/Miroku 1895 in .30-40 Krag for the same reason.
I wish Ruger good fortune in the efforts to bring Marlin back to prominence but I'm too old to think about another lever action rifle.
Oh! I forgot about the Browning 92 in .44 Mag and Rossi .357 and Win. 94,.30-30 Love to play with them.
John
W.TN
"If everyone is thinking the same thing it means someone is not thinking"
"A rat became the unit of currency"
Here’s a link to a video of the new Marlin, if you haven’t already seen it.
https://youtu.be/lpxriCVhciA
It really does look like a quality piece. Should have a hammer forged barrel too. And the back up sights are a nice touch. The rail is just in keeping with the optics trends out there. I'll bet they turn out to be really nice rifles. Ruger would not want to travel Remington's path.
Then again, this one looks pretty nice too;
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/923459570
Last edited by Cosmic_Charlie; 02-02-2022 at 01:05 PM.
Hurry up guys! 1 Ruglin on GI only 2895.00 you can be one of the first !
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |