Picked up a Marlin 1894 CSBL 357 Mag: REVIEW and Pictures

[Macchina]

Love the buttpad. Where does one find Micarta? I have a gun I would like to do that same thing to.

SWC have fed great so far, seems like everything works in this gun.

Micarta is available anywhere you can buy industrial materials from. McMaster Carr has a great selection but so does eBay... Make sure you wear a mask when you grind it.

 

[stringnut]

Nice looking setup. I better not let the wife see a picture . She would want one so the her blued one wouldn't be lonely.
How does the 357 work on deer? She hasn't had an opportunity to shoot one with it yet. Should go all the way through broadside and you don't need more than that.

 

[Macchina]

Nice looking setup. I better not let the wife see a picture . She would want one so the her blued one wouldn't be lonely.
How does the 357 work on deer? She hasn't had an opportunity to shoot one with it yet. Should go all the way through broadside and you don't need more than that.

I've taken 2 deer with a 357 Rifle. Both were with my Ruger 77/357: The first dropped right there with a high chest shot. Kicked for a bit then died.
The second was a shot I shouldn't have taken (standing in the fog at 100 yards+) and I hit about a foot forward on the deer through the windpipe. The deer actually only ran about 70 yards but was hard to track in the fog. So far I'm very happy with the accuracy and performance of 357 in rifles. So much so that I much prefer it for woods deer hunting as the report is so much quieter and the guns are so easy to carry!

My Ruger 77/357 on that foggy week-long hunt:

 

[Charlie Martinez]

My 1894 is chambered for 44 Mag not 357 Mag but with certain loads it will print 3-shot cloverleaf groups at 50 yards with factory iron sights. It is a great camp, survival & home defense weapon.

 

[gotboostvr]

My Ruger 77/357 on that foggy week-long hunt:

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Man, that looks about the same as where I hunt. A quick handling PCC is perfect deer medicine for terrain like that. I couldn't imagine trying to crawl through briars and vines and all the other flora and fauna with a 26" barrelled long action rifle.