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03-23-2018, 07:56 PM
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Check out this Marlin 336 "Texan" with straight grip stock.....
Stopped by a pawn shop I frequent irregularly today, don't go by there often as there prices are way too high. They literally have guns on the shelf they have had for over 15 years, still priced into the stratosphere...
Today we stopped in to look for "Made in the USA" pocket knives, didn't have any of those but they did have a straight grip Marlin 336, 30-30 caliber with saddle ring. Thought to myself this one will be priced too high, but it wasn't. Priced at $499, we got it for $450.
Take a look at the walnut stock on this beauty:
Serial number places it at being made in 1971.
I have never warmed to Marlins with the pistol grip (curved) buttstock, but have always said if I found one with the straight grip I would get it. Today I did!
Won't get to shoot it until next week, we'll let you know how it proves to be as a shooter.
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03-23-2018, 08:01 PM
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You got a good one there . I found the same gun maybe 10 or 12 years ago in 44 mag , I never fired it yet and it was mint back then it was around 400
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03-23-2018, 09:32 PM
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I can't abide pistol grip stocks on lever action rifles either. Other
people must love them cause Texans are few and far between.
I have several JM Marlins the newest a 1970 1894 and they all
have straight stocks as do my old Winchesters.
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03-23-2018, 10:48 PM
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I love the Marlin Texans and have 4 of them, with 16.25, 18.5, and 20 inch round barrels, and one with a 22 inch octagon barrel. Don't like the pistol grip rifles at all.
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03-23-2018, 11:33 PM
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A very neat rifle!
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03-24-2018, 07:16 AM
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That was my first deer rifle. Wish I still had it. Great rifle. Glad you took it home.
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03-26-2018, 09:41 PM
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Seeing that gun reminds me of "The Big Valley" TV show. Saw one just like it any many episodes.
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03-26-2018, 10:02 PM
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Very nice find! I've got a few Texans, but have yet to find a saddle ring Marlin. Congratulations!
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03-26-2018, 10:09 PM
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I have one that is very similar but has the "normal" rounded lever. It was a Christmas present from my father in the late 1960s and I still have it. I was kind of disappointed at the time because it wasn't a Winchester Model 94. But the Marlin is a better, more robust design which I grew to appreciate.
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03-26-2018, 11:22 PM
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Very nice find canoeguy! Enjoy!
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03-27-2018, 12:47 AM
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I bought a Marlin saddle ring carbine .44 mag a few weeks ago, 1971 vintage also. On the lookout for a Texan .30-30.
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03-27-2018, 08:26 PM
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A Marlin Texan was my first deer rifle, and still have it. Took the brass ring off many years ago as it 'clicked' in the woods.
Took my first few deer with it until those articles started showing up telling how anemic the .30-30 was, so it was on to bigger and better.
Of course we all know that's bull-feathers now.
Great little rifles.
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