Home Forums Lever Action Central Marlin 336 Lever Actions Barrel modification On My Marlin 336, In 35 Remington

Yes, I cast my own bullets. Its a great winter time activity! I will be trying some straight WW alloys this winter, and maybe add some tin to increase mould fill and bullet toughness for performance on game animals. I dont need to push my velocities much past 2000fps.

I took the pictures from different angles to give a person a good overall view of the proportions. The barrel is a measured 21" inches now. I almost wish I went with 18.5 or 19". Lol!

The most suprising thing for me was that my best performing load before shortening the barrel, still shoots just as good as before, but had a small"INCREASE" in muzzle velocity!

Doesnt make any scence does it?! The velocity is within 10fps of the previous barrel length.

Thanks for the response to my post.