Lee said:
Have you made it to the range with your new 336 yet?
Only once, Lee.
I took it to the club a few days after acquisition just to shoot it.
I was pleased by the recoil = not much for so much medium-sized game dropper.
Iron sights worked well enough for 25 to 50 m, but suffered at 100m.
(My crystal ball sez, "Leupold scout scope on
XS scout scope mount with
XS GR or aperture backups".)
JNew said:
Mic McPherson's book Accurizing the Factory Rifle has a bunch of chapters on making these shoot well...
Ah, nice. Will check it out.
Squid said:
One of the best all around rifles in existence.
Seconded.
Mo said:
I believe Nem is just trying to gather and condense 336 (and variants) data and info for the benefit of 336 owners and potential owners.
I've found lots of good info here at the THR about the 336. Being able to do some 'one stop shopping' would be a nice bonus. The more range reports, load data and customization information the better!
Ditto that.
JNew said:
Not quite sure how to read the posts above, but if it's helpful, the 444 and 1895 are in fact built on the 336 action, so perhaps they qualify? If yes, count me in again for an 1895. If not, forget I mentioned it and let's stay happy with what's here.
Hmm. Interesting proposition.
I suspected this issue would arise.
I could go either way on it myself, depending on what others say.
I confess: if (no, probably when) I buy another lever gun, it'll probably be an
1895G in .45/70.
(If only they had a pistol grip...maybe they will by the time I'm ready to buy, just before a move to
Alaska...)
Yes, it could be a
336XLR, or one of those new fangled
.308MX,
but - if I had to put money on it now - I'd say more likely an 1895G,
especially since it's based on a 336 action.
(After JNew mentioned that, I double checked the Marlin pages.
That seems to me that's a correct assertion.)
The
Marlin 1894's are a different beast, and I'd vote to let them have a separate synthesis thread.
But the 1895's could fit here.
What say the club members?
{
Added the next morning by edit:
Let's hold off for a while on discussing 1895's too much before we decide whether it's appropriate or not for this thread. As someone points out on the next page, one of the defining characteristics of 336 is the caliber: .30-30 (and of course, .35). It may be too much of a divergence to explicitly try to include
a lot of 1895 big bore discussion in this thread, particularly with respect to using this thread as a clearing house for information for 1895's as is our goal for 336. I'm NOT saying that 1895's shouldn't be mentioned, or even involved in stories in this thread. Personally, I think that's fine. I'm just not sure that we will serve the focus of the thread by opening up too much discussion on 1895's. But this is a club thread, not just mine, so let's see what members' opinions are. Thanks.}
Nem