Sold: Marlin SBL in 45/70
- Thread starter Sweep
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on bottom of the stock it will have a red dot if it's a ruger made one
Sorry haven't had a chance to look in gun room yet. Will try this weekend.
Hi Sweep,
I am not selling mine. Its a great gun, worth even what I paid for it (I bought via GB when it had a 12 month back order at my local dealers...........so yeah it was pricy).
I would highly recommend suppressing it. The Recoil is stout with Expanding 325 grain FTX, but recoil is brutal with 405 grain Flat Nose Hard Cast (BHN 25+), but beats bleeding out with your femoral sliced by a boar or getting scalped while on the way to a very painful death by a bear.
The thread pitch might need an adapter to connect to certain cans, will certainly be needed for an Silencerco products.
Its a great woods gun, the 45-70 will punch through light brush/soft wood fir type branches with little deflection (within ~15-20 yards impact from target). It can be instant knockdown with a frontal shot, but would not recommend it if you are in a tree.
You can also load forager #8 shot rounds for grouse, and carry a few if you hear grouse walking if you are on stand, but range is limited to 20 yards max (better to keep to 15) as the dispersion caused by the rifling beyond that is a recipe for non recoverable cripples. (Ironically a 2.5" snubby with 38 spcl. snake-shot is effective out to 25 yards (less time in the barrel for centrifugal effect to act on the shot and cause the dispersion.)
The unload via the gate versus having to cycle rounds through the chamber (especially with cold fingers) is much safer for unloading,
I have both a Remlin and a Ruger made gun, and the Ruger made guns fit and finish is way better.
Good luck with getting one.
Seamus
I am not selling mine. Its a great gun, worth even what I paid for it (I bought via GB when it had a 12 month back order at my local dealers...........so yeah it was pricy).
I would highly recommend suppressing it. The Recoil is stout with Expanding 325 grain FTX, but recoil is brutal with 405 grain Flat Nose Hard Cast (BHN 25+), but beats bleeding out with your femoral sliced by a boar or getting scalped while on the way to a very painful death by a bear.
The thread pitch might need an adapter to connect to certain cans, will certainly be needed for an Silencerco products.
Its a great woods gun, the 45-70 will punch through light brush/soft wood fir type branches with little deflection (within ~15-20 yards impact from target). It can be instant knockdown with a frontal shot, but would not recommend it if you are in a tree.
You can also load forager #8 shot rounds for grouse, and carry a few if you hear grouse walking if you are on stand, but range is limited to 20 yards max (better to keep to 15) as the dispersion caused by the rifling beyond that is a recipe for non recoverable cripples. (Ironically a 2.5" snubby with 38 spcl. snake-shot is effective out to 25 yards (less time in the barrel for centrifugal effect to act on the shot and cause the dispersion.)
The unload via the gate versus having to cycle rounds through the chamber (especially with cold fingers) is much safer for unloading,
I have both a Remlin and a Ruger made gun, and the Ruger made guns fit and finish is way better.
Good luck with getting one.
Seamus
Morning mate,
Yes it’s my favourite too, I wanted a 1894 sbl but same story, no one is getting stock at the moment, do you have a slot for 1 at the moment. I know a guy who has 1 but he’s a tad on the tight side so never bothered asking him if he wanted to sell it
Sounds like a plan, i quite like my Henry, there all very similar tbh, the S&W is quite a chunky rifle n equally nice to shoot, 1895 probably looks the best. Have u thought about the 1895 trapper or u wanting the sbl?
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