That's a lot of fluff that doesn't make it a better hunting rifle than a guide gun out of the box. Or particularly when you can get an 1895SBL that already has half that stuff from the factory.
The action smoothing is nice to have, but you can smooth a new action in front of your TV - just work it. All the moving parts that touch automatically rub against each other and get smoothed.
"Modify loading gate for easier loading & unloading"? This is actually worthwhile as Marlin loading ports can be very sharp. But wth does the loading gate have to do with unloading? Bobbing the hammer - why, to make it easier for your finger to slip?
They could be and probably are good smiths, but they're doing all this to capitalize on cool looking stuff that folks see in magazine pictures, particularly for umpteen hundreds of dollars on top of "customer supplied rifle".
If they rebarreled it and guaranteed that it would put three shots into an inch at 100 yards, they might be doing something. But then you'd have to sarcastically ask, "what lever rifle that puts three shots into 2" has failed to do what a short barreled lever rifle is meant to do?"
Spend the money saved on an air conditioned deer stand or custom spinners for the ATV wheels.
I could not agree more! Let's see, that is over $1800 out the door. That's four used Marlins and a couple of boxes of ammo. What will a customized whiz bang do that our RC will not?
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