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Old 03-19-2016, 07:55 PM
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Your only choices, new, are Winchester, Uberti, Henry and Rossi. I have the Rossi M92 and love it.

Old Marlins are good, but whatever you do, do not buy a new Marlin in .357 - they haven't produced a functional one yet since they fired everybody and moved the factory after Marlin was sold off. There was a recent article somewhere where the 'Marlin' folks admitted they wouldn't be able to produce a functional .357 lever gun until 2017 or so. They claim that the machine tools were worn down and that the operators had rigged the setting to get them to work right. ...um, yea...

Edit: the link for the article is below. They indicated 'end of 2015' for the .357. It never happened and I wouldn't want one of the first ones to come from a completely new process anyway.

Marlin 1894 Rifle Review - Guns & Ammo
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