i have been mostly shooting a cast lyman 246grain bullet at about 1900fps which works for me at this point.
but just from memory, brian pearce had a remark in handloader throwing I THINK a 200 grain or 220 at about 2250fps using aa1680.
I am eventually going to try a few of those.
there were only 16000 roughly of the marlins made over just a couple year period.
i tripped across four boxes of factory winchester about a year ago for 50bucks a box, but i can't bring myself to shoot it.
the cast bullets shoot a pretty good group.

Last edited by RoninPhx; 02/23/16.

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