336 Love

[david58]

Finally got my Marlin 336 dialed in. Going deer hunting with it - it has about 60 years more experience than I do. Bought it used, has an old 4x scope, and is dead on with Leverevolution ammo.

I also shot the coreloct Remington ammo - amazed at how low the 170 gr hit at 100 yards compared with the Leverevolution ammo. Good for working on training the jerk behind the trigger, but I think I am a sworn-in Hornady LR hunter.

I am thrilled to take this old girl to the woods - she was minted in 1951, Ballard rifled, and has the beautiful patina of hard loving use. I love having this gun, but I can't help but think somebody's grandson should be carrying grandad's rifle, and not me.

But, boy howdy, I like my 336.

 

[GarMan]

Pics.

 

[quietman]

 

[umc180gr]

I love my 336 too

 

[vaupet]

join the 336 club around here

 

[Armored farmer]

My nephew joined the USMC and was to be deployed in Iraq a few years back. He came to me in need of some cash and offered to sell me a Marlin straight grip 336. I gave him $250 for it, and took it shooting a few times. I fell in love with it. When nephew's t o d was over....I gave the rifle back to him as a welcome home present.
I finally found a good 336 at a farm auction and bought one for myself. I must admit I haven't shot it yet......but I'm sure I'm gonna like it.

 

[hoghunting]

Congrats on your 336. I enjoy mine also. The old 4X scope might work well at the range in fairly bright light, but you might be disappointed when hunting in lower light levels. Many of the older optics don't have a very high light transmission percentage.

 

[david58]

I'll try to get pics made - right now, the rifle is still in the case buried under a ton of camp gear in my rig - just got back from deer camp 1 for the year (deer camp 2 yet to come).

As to optics, I am going to remove the old scope and mount an original iron sight. I want to get another and put a bit newer 'scope on it. This one cries for an open sight.

And I am still shaking my head at the diff between the Rem ammo and the Leverevolution. That new Hornady stuff is super!

 

[heeler]

I always wanted an American lever gun as it is just that..A traditional American rifle.
So a couple of years ago I came upon a near mint 1981 built 336 and bought it for $275.00.
At that time money was sort of tight but I could not let such a beauty get away and especially at that price.
I later put a Burris Timberline 2x7x26 scope on it using a Weaver base and Millet low rings.
That scope really looks good on the rifle as it is short and light without giving the rifle that over scoped look.
It really like 170 grain Corelokts and so that's what I use.
Last November on opening day of deer season I took a fat hog and a decent spike buck.
Two weeks later I killed a hugh 300 pound boar.
All three shots were one shot DRT affairs.
So,I will definitely be taking it with me again this year.
In the world of plastic hunting rifles sporting scopes that look like the Hubbell telescope it truely stands apart with it's classic style and really nice Walnut stock.
This is one of those kind of rifles you leave for a friend or loved one in your Will.

 

[Sav .250]

I,like a lot of folks, share that feeling..........

 

[336A]

The Marlin 336/1895 and rifles of similar ilk along with the cartridges they house are true hunters rifles and cartridges. Folks that know how ply thier field craft and stalk silently close to thier game and kill it with one shot through the lungs. Such folks know that it truly is the hunter not the cartridge or equipment that kills the game. That is IMHO the true mark of a woodsman/Hunter. In this day and age of tacticool rifles and scopes people think that it is just the bees knees to dowse themselves in a gallon of scent killer, and sling lead out to 600yd not knowing who or what is behind the intended target.

Just the other weekend I was out stalking around the woods. My hunting clothes were a pair of jeans, T-shirt, sweat stained and stinky ball cap, and redwing boots that I mucked out horse stalls with earlier that morning. Due to the fact that I always make sure I'm aware of the wind direction I was able to walk almost right on top of a bedded down doe and her fawn. They were totally unaware of my presence even though I was only about 50yd away and watching them through the blow downs with my binoculars. Moments later I was wishing that it was deer season as two more doe with fawns showed up as well as a nice sized fork horn buck.

In a few more weeks though that fork horn will get introduced to my Marlin 30WCF

 

[chas08]

I don't have a 336 yet. I have an 1895 Guide gun in 45/70 and a Ted Williams 100 (Win. 94) 30/30. The Marlin has a Burris Timberline 2x7x26 scope on it mounted with Talley one piece low rings.

The TW 100 has a Williams 5d aperture sight that I just put on it a few weeks ago because my deteriorating up close vision makes it hard to use semi-buckhorn sights any more. What a difference that Williams sight made. It put the fun back into shooting irons. Now I'm thinking of doing the same thing to the Marlin which will leave me with an unused scope.

I think I see a 336 in .35 Rem. in my future. It would be a nice in-betweener for the two I own and the scope and rings I have would be about as perfect for a lever gun as a scope can be. My only question I have now is which type of rifling to look for, Ballard or Micro-Groove. I've not done any research on this yet at all. Any comments would be appreciated.

 

[Deputy25]

I have my GrandDad's 336, it wears a Leupold 4X post and crosshair. He was flattening PA whitetails with it well before I was born in 1959. When Granddad passed, I inherited his 336. It sits in the safe beside 2 Guide Guns (45/70 and a .450), and a .444. As good as these other Marlins are, Granddad's 336 is the go-to. My son is 19, and hunts exclusively with my (his, now) Remington 700 7mm Magnum. I'm sure at some point well into the future, he'll pick up the same 336 used by Dad and Great Granddad .

 

[tatonka]

I always wanted one. Did some research online and found complaints about the trigger, but otherwise people liked them. So, when a good sale came up, I got a new one w/ scope for $330. It's trigger is nice, so maybe I got lucky. I like it a lot, just need to find more time to shoot it.

 

[heeler]

Tatonka,I too read and heard of the trigger complaints but....Perhaps it's because mine is an older pre crossbolt safety model(Those things ruin the looks of these rifles) but mine is very smooth.
Seat of the pants guestimate I would say mine is around 5 pounds at most.
Most of my bolt rifles I own have been adjusted to 3 pounds.
So for a factory offering mine is not bad and at all and I wont be going through the motions to lighten it up.