To: Pharmboy
It was a cool gun. It is outclassed by modern firearms, though. This like being upset that a flintlock will no longer be made.
What saddens me is that they are closing the plant. If I had the money, I would buy the plant and re-tool it to make the best modern firearms possible.
28 posted on
01/21/2006 4:49:39 AM PST by
Sensei Ern
(Now, IB4Z! http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "Cowards cut and run. Heroes never do!")
To: Sensei Ern
" If I had the money, I would buy the plant and re-tool it to make the best modern firearms possible."
Thats what Marlin did when they built the MR-7 bolt action rifle, they put so much into the quality of the rifles that they couldn't sell them at even a break-even price.
They only made those for a few years.
Damn fine rifles if you can find a used one.
31 posted on
01/21/2006 5:13:44 AM PST by
Beagle8U
(An "Earth First" kinda guy ( when we finish logging here, we'll start on the other planets.)
To: Sensei Ern
"What saddens me is that they are closing the plant. If I had the money, I would buy the plant and re-tool it to make the best modern firearms possible."
That would be nice. Maybe reopen to make M1 Garands for the people of the US to help rebuild the old militias of the past.
32 posted on
01/21/2006 5:20:41 AM PST by
MaDeuce
(Do it to them, before they do it to you!)
To: Sensei Ern
Hornady just came out with a polymer tipped spitzer in .30-30, .45-70, 450 Marlin, .444 Marlin that will keep the lever actions going another 150 years. Makes [according to the reviews] a .30-30 a 250 yd. rifle. Takes a .45-70 zeroed at 100 yds., and reduces the bullet drop at 300 yds. from 9' to 25".
Lever guns are the best brush guns in the business. More deer have probably been dropped with .30-30s than any other caliber.
37 posted on
01/21/2006 6:58:10 AM PST by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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