Home Forums Lever Action Central Marlin 336 Lever Actions Can I turn a 336 35rem into something else

While I'm in recovery and cant do any heavy lifting keep looking for projects for winter.

I've got an old Marlin. I believe it is a 336. in 35Rem. Works fine taken a few hogs but boring.

Can this be turned into something a little more fun and/or different? Or better to start with something else.

These 4 months of doing nothing but driving to see Drs 3-4 times a week is killing me. Need something to do

You can rechamber your Marlin 336 from 35 Rem to 356 Win, but the 356 has never been very popular, so ammo and brass are both expensive and hard to find.

A barrel and a bolt will allow you to turn it into a 25/35, 30/30, 32WS, or a 38/55 or .375Win with no other parts. Of course finding a factory barrel for anything other than a 30/30 is going to be tough to impossible depending on which of the above chamberings you were to pick. All those I listed do use the same bolt though.

I think that you can just rechamber to 358 win, There is some debate to whether the 336 is really capable of handling 358 pressures but a lot of folks have done it.

More to the point, unless you intend to shoot more than say 150yds, there really isn't much difference between 35 rem and 358 win( or 356 win).

the 336 in 35 rem is boringly effective, which isn't a bad thing.

Keep the Marlin .35 as is or re-barrel to another caliber.

Brass and bullets for the 25/35, 32 spl 38/55,375 and 356 win have been in short supply or discontinued for the last 3 years and if a new buying frenzy develop's for the long term likely will not get any better in 2016.

Doc

After a good night's sleep and a cup of coffee. I think the best thing to do is leave as is. Now to look for another project. Maybe the next one will make more sense.

Thanks to all that took the time to comment.

One other choice is to re-chamber to an ackley improved version, blow out case and shorten neck. Only need to re-chamber and a set of custom dies that RCBS will make. Would put it petty close to 356 velocity's.

Glad your keeping it as is. You've got an extremely exciting levergun in the 35rem. One can go to heavy Buffalo Bore loads, and if you reload 35 cal pistol bullets can be launched. Then there's cast bullets. The 35 is where casting really starts to make sense because finally there's enough bore diameter and bullet weight to have an extremely hunting round or load lightweight plinkers.

That to me is exciting in an levergun.

I have plenty of AIs and other wildcats of my own design. Just not a warm and fuzzy for the 35Rem AI.

Not sure I have ever heard of Buffalo Bore Loads. Yep I reload and have dies for the 35.

Any problem with recoil during recovery? You might try some light loads for the .35, could be a fun diversion. I cast mine, jacketed pistol bullets would work too. Accuracy might surprise you.

cut it down into a shorty