My Marlin 1894CS is jammed!

[ninja45]

Hello, friends.

I have a jam in my Marlin 1894CS (38/357) that I cannot clear. I had this rifle for a full two weeks and was cycling dummy .38 rounds when round number 6 of 10 jammed in the feeding tube.

When I cycled the lever down, round #5 was poised to be fed into the chamber but the lever will not cycle up as round #6 jammed up all the works. I was able to remove round #5 by jiggling it out, but the lever is frozen in the down position. I tried pushing round #6 into the feeding tube, but it seems hung up on something I can't quite figure out.

My question is: how do you clear this jam? Do I need to dissasemble the rifle? (I have not disassembled a lever action rifle...yet)

HELP!

Carlos

 

[Winters]

I have had the same problem with my .44. You have to disassemble the rifle.

First remove the screw that holds the lever and pull it down and out. Second pull the bolt out of the back of the reciever, becarefull when you do this as the ejector spring is behind the bolt don't lose it .

This should be enough to get the round out. Reassemble in reverse order, spring, bolt. lever and screw.

This is the way you take it down to clean the bore.

Make sure the screw that holds the loading gate in is tight so it doesn't happen again. The loading gate screw is the small one behind the loading gate that does not go through.

Please use propper fitting screw drivers so you don't marr the rifle or screw heads.

Winters

 

[SASS#23149]

Marlins are tight-fitting guns methinks

I"ve watched cowboy shooters who had jams and almost always the cause seemed to be screws worked loose on the reciever.A little bit of looseness and they don't want to run.
Each time ya shoot it,gently snug the screws with a proper screwdriver and maybe the problem will not resurface.
please re-read the 'gently' part.

 

[1911Tuner]

Jammed Levergun

Haven't had much truck with the Marlins, but the action is probably at least similar to the M-94 Winchester. In those, if the cartridge stop breaks or gets outta whack, the round gets between the cartridge elevator and lever and jams things up pretty solidly. I understand that the Winchester's cartridge stop is a little more fragile than the Marlin's...so this may not be it. Worth a look anyway. If the stop broke, it could have gotten a piece tangled up in the works, and froze the lever in the out of battery position.

 

[Sunray]

Take it apart and quit using .38 cases. There's a free .pdf format manual here. http://stevespages.com/page7b.htm

 

[otteray]

Dreaded Marlin jam

Go to this site. It may help since it details the problem. I'm still waiting for it to happen to mine!
http://www.marauder.homestead.com/files/Marlin94Fix.html

 

[ninja45]

Thank you all for the replies and good tips!

I was able to clear the jam by removing the lever. The dummy round magically jumped out of the feeding tube into the carrier!

WINTERS - your tip got me started and it worked just as you said! Clear and concise instructions I can follow!

SASS 23149 - You were not kidding about the Marlin being tight. It took me awhile to "pop" lose the lever screw (maybe because of the jam itself), but I did it "gently" as you suggested. Many times the words "hammer, bigger hammer" kept popping in and out my head but I did not succumb.

1911TUNER-glad to hear from the legendary Tuner! I'll talk to you about my 2 month old Rinco later.

SUNRAY-how did you know I did not have a user's manual? It is indeed a used rifle (must be the CS desig) and I did print out the manual from the link you sent me.

OTTERAY-Thanks for the link! I printed out the instructions for future use. You should be so lucky to wait on the "Marlin Jam". Hope that you wait for a looooong time. Before I experienced my problem, I thought marlin jam is what what you put in a fish sandwich .

G'day all,

Carlos