Marlin 336 Show-off thread
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I only have a Few Marlins, all
JM stamped. The 336A shows honest use, the 336 RC is like new, same with the 1895.
1950 336A 35 Rem 24"bbl
1953 336 RC 32 WS
1997 1895
JM stamped. The 336A shows honest use, the 336 RC is like new, same with the 1895.
1950 336A 35 Rem 24"bbl
1953 336 RC 32 WS
1997 1895
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22lrfan
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The one on the left is a .35 Remington from 1950. The one on the right is my bumming around .35. One afternoon I had just sold a handgun and made a little profit. I stopped by a pawn shop on the way home and haggled on this .35 until I got it for the exact amount of profit I made off the pistol.
The .35 on the left has an unmolested waffle top and wears on old side-mount Williams peep.
I found this .35 a few years ago on the used rack at a local police supply store. They had just purchased all the confiscated guns from the Cobb County Sheriff's Department (Georgia), and part of the deal required them to take all the department's old patrol rifles. The store didn't want them, but they had they had no choice if they wanted the rest of the guns.
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Very cooll! That is the first LE marked Marlin I have seen.
It's the only one I've ever seen, and I've had a number of people try to buy it. When I saw it, I knew it was coming home with me. I paid less than $400 for it.
The rifle is only thirty-nine years old. Times have certainly changed in law enforcement when you think about metro Atlanta deputies carrying a Marlin 336 about the time Miami Vice hit television.
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If that 336 was worth $10 large, what is my Winchester 71 Deluxe worth? A couple of hundred?
I never could get use to lever actions with pistol grip stocks. I had a Marlin 336 in 375Win couple years ago. Traded it of, just didn't feel right. Recently sold a 99 Savage 250/3000 that I hadn't owned very long. In high school I had a 99 carbine with saddle stock. I was trying to replace it but it had pistol grip stock. Come to think of it, never seen a Cowboy with a pistol grip on his Winchester.
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The first one (the tall one) is one that you won't find in the books-not even Lt. Col. Brophy's book. The Marlin 444 was catalogued in 1965.
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One year prior to that, the Marlin 336 in 444 magnum was produced. They were never catalogued, not sure how many were made.
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Marlin decided to change the name of the cartridge to Marlin 444 and thus the new model name. I've been told there are some early boxes that are called 444 magnum but I have not been able to locate one. This is my 336 in 444 magnum from 1964.
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Those Model 336 Marlins in caliber 444 are quite rare as they were nearly experimental.
When Marlin & Remington finally agreed on the cartridge design, Marlin went to work in altering it's popular Model 336 for the round.
That had been the plan from the start,,to use the basic, solid Model 336 rifle action and just do some minor changes to allow it to function with the larger cartridge.
The 444 uses a base dia that is the Mauser .470+ dia with a rim and is 57m/m oal .
Nothing close to that had been used in the 336, 36 , 1936 model in the past.
Marlin R&D did succesfully make the changes to the Model 336 to handle the 444 round.
It loaded, fed, chambered, fired and ejected the round just fine.
But questions remainded as to the safety margin built into it.
It was finally decided that the 336 action was just not strong enough for the cartridge 'as a product to be placed on the open market'.
The result was that a new action for the 444 was designed for just that cartridge. Most called it a beefed up 336 which it in simple terms is. But it is by all accounts stronger than the standard round bolt 336.
How many 444's were built on the orig 336 action? I don't know. I doubt anyone really knows. I was told it never went into line production on that action. Those built were for demonstration, sales reps, to be sent out to writers, etc.
But none of that distribution ever happened AFAIK.
The caliber marking of 444 magnum was made by using the 44 magnum roll die from the slightly earlier 336 44mag and spacing it so an extra '4' was added by hand stamping.
The Ammo was made by Remington.
They may have made up the stuff headstamped 444Magnum if that was decided on as the caliber by both parties. Boxes with printing was done by outside vendors and was a simple thing to add/change/delete if needed.
Often first run new caliber stuff was hand stamped on boxes in small quantities to get it out to the gun rags and sales reps.
That's about all I remember being told about the rifle.
Here is a Marlin 336RC "Texan" saddle ring carbine. They made these with the saddle rings in the late 60's and early 70's, i believe. This gun was made in 1967 and is in nearly new condition. It is chambered in .30-30.
That's fantastic. I've wanted one of those for years, but it's never happened for me.
I do like those saddle rings. My Marlin .44 Mag centennial rifle from 1970 came with one.
kwill1911
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Mine from 1968:
I inherited my father in laws 1954 336RC straight stock in .35 Rem. It's a great deer rifle. Shoot with open sights. I much prefer the look and feel of the straight stock vs. pistol grip on these rifles. I lost the bullseye insert out of the stock one year. Called Marlin Factory and they sent me another which I cut to fit.
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Couple years ago I took two 30/30s on trade, on same deal. One was a Marlin Glenfield NIB. The other was a post 64 Win 94. The Glenfield sold almost immediately. The Win 94 I drug for 2 yrs to get $300 out of it. The only thing on that level I've traded in last few years is 742 Rem.now demand for any Win 94 is up but JM Marlins will bring as much as Pre 64 Win 94s.
OIF2
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Here's another nice one...from 1957. 336A-DL in .35 Rem. Original swivels, which are almost impossible to find. Minty.
Bob
Bob
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This is a really late JM but still a real .35 rem Marlin 336. I originally saw this gun in a magazine spread, but it was blued, and fell in love with it. By the time I went looking for one all I could find was a stainless one, and I drove three and a half hours from the Twin Cities up to Ashland WI.
The stainless and walnut still look pretty nice. I almost took it out to Duracoat and had it painted, glad I didn't.
I wish I had a better pic, but this is the only one I could find, and the rifle is in the very back of the safe.
The stainless and walnut still look pretty nice. I almost took it out to Duracoat and had it painted, glad I didn't.
I wish I had a better pic, but this is the only one I could find, and the rifle is in the very back of the safe.
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I don't have a good pic of my remlin 336bl, which was my first in 2011 or 12.
Here's an early waffletop SC in .30-30; waffletop is untapped but the side wasn't so lucky. I removed the mount and Weaver jr 2.5 (I think) but may put it back on someday.
Here's an early waffletop SC in .30-30; waffletop is untapped but the side wasn't so lucky. I removed the mount and Weaver jr 2.5 (I think) but may put it back on someday.
