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I just noticed this new product announcement on Hornady's web site.



308 Marlin Express
http://www.hornady.com/story.php?s=481

pdf file: http://www.hornady.com/media/308_Marlin_Express_Ad.pdf

-Bob F.

Very interesting!!!!!!!!!!

Its a real cutie, but Gosh; if they wanted to market a "new" rimless .308 Jr why didn't they resurrect the 300 Savage? I'm kinda disappointed in Marlin/Hornady. That could've been a real winner in marketing as well as performance.

I really like the idea. Looks like 300 Sav ballistics in a suitable package for a tube magazine. If Marlin had chambered it for the 300 Sav, they would have been forced to use a spiral magazine.

I like it I regret the day I passed on the 307 and 356 Winchesters I hope they have a 358 Marlin express on the board

How to you figure that? The problem with loading cartridges in a tube magazine is the pointy bullet. The new Hornady bullet takes care of that problem with its rubber tip. If you load those bullets in a .300 Savage case why would you need a sprial magazine? The bottom line is: "Ladies and Gentlemen. Kindly turn your attention to our new cartridge which duplicates the ballistics of the .300 Savage. As you can plainly see, after much thought and a prolonged engineering process we have reinvented the wheel."

Way to go Marlin. I'm all for anything that can 1) Keep Marlin in business 2) Get more of us to ,at least, think about buying Lever guns & 3) give me any reason to buy another gun, esp. if it's a Marlin.

It appears tp be a 307 Win version with the new style bullet. I was thinking about how this bullet would work in the 307. I never did get a 307 but I did pick up a 356 before they stopped making them. It should be a good one.

Another new cartridge............yawn

Not yet but that is a good idea! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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Yes---glad it has been announced! Very shortly you are going to read about some writers hunting with it earlier this fall. Normally I have no use for lever rifles but this I am making an exception!

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Hopefully this round will work because from what I read lately, bullets fired from a .300 Savage bounce off today's deer and blackbear. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Expat

It's being touted as a 300 yard cartridge. I can like that. Should work wonders on Caribou. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I'm glad to see Marlin being creative. I'm not going to disparage them for not making it a 300 savage without a little more information. I think sometimes the gunfolks have atendancy to eat their own.

What was wrong with the 7.63X39? We needed a better rimmed cartridge.

whats it gonna do that a 30-30 loaded to the same pressures is not?

so it's the old .307?

I like the looks of that one!

Anyone see news from Marlin on a rifle for it?

They couldn't make it a 300 savage, because of the liability issues of the shooters who would use regular 300 savage ammo. So yes, they would have to use a spiral magazine.

I had a 307 win but once I bought my .308 blr that .307 just collected dust and became history.

The data says the 308 marlin express is a 47,000 psi cartridge using special powder and a special soft tipped bullet. So you have one load that you have to pay through the nose for and hope it shoots. At first I thought it sounded like a good idea, but now I'm having second thoughts. Plus they are not making any 20" barreled guns, just 22" and 24".

I love marlins but I'm just going to stick to my 35 rem + P for now.

Come on, Guys. Do you really think anyone would line up to buy a MARLIN 300 SAV if Marlin had brought it back as such, or even the 307 with a new gummy bear tip????? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Get real and move into the new century. It doesn't matter if the ballistics match the 300 Sav. The 300 Sav wasn't that far behind the 308 Win and as soon as us old pharts die off, so will the garbage about the "good old days" and those calibers that didn't stay within Darwinian parameters will die off also. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

It's a new world and what is happening is called "MARKETING A PRODUCT". I for one think it's great. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> If I didn't already have a lever gun in 300 Sav I would be first in line for the "NEW 300 SAV", and hoping Marlin will come out with a "NEW 358 WIN" or a "NEW 375-08", BUT, on the same 308 MARLIN case. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

If you don't think 'MARKETING" has you by the short and curlys, why all the huffing and puffing? Stick with the OLD "tried and true", shut your eyes and be happy. The oldies still work. Let the newbies have their place in the sun, yours is over, realize it. Things change, life goes on. Hunting as our grandfathers new it, our fathers knew it and you, if you were lucky knew it, is so far gone I can hardly remember what it was like myself. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Be glad some gun maker is trying to progress and not just wait until the dirt is tossed on their graves. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Enjoy

Not long ago I rechambered a 336 30-30 for 308 Win. It will shoot 308 that is not over 2.56"COL or 307. Single loaded milsurp ammo shoots 2MOA.
I'm in the process of rechambering a 35 Rem for 356 Win.

I suspect it is because the Savage is loaded with pointed bullets - not a good thing in a Marlin's tubular magazine.