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Went to the Yuma gunshow this morning and found it to be pretty thin pickin's, not very many guns and lots of the usual junk. A few $800.00 black rifles priced at $1600.00 and up!!! In a back corner of the show I almost walked past an older couple's table, she had knick-knacks and some jewelry, he had 5 or 6 rifles all crowded up on one end of the table. A second glance revealed a Marlin lever gun with a 24" barrel. So I says to myself, "Self, it wont take a minute to look", which I did.

This is a Model 336ADL rifle, manufactured from 1948-1962. It is in about 95% condition on the metal and a few hunting scratches on the wood , which has the factory cut checkering. Nothing serious. It had obviously been in someone's closet for many many years, the old oil on the bolt had solidified and turned brown. The bore is as new. It still has the original factory sling swivels, but need a bullseye and a front sight hood. It is a .32 Special. The old feller was kind of a grouch but I managed to cajole him into coming down to $250.00 from his price of $275.00 and we parted friends. I knew I had done OK on it, a check in the Blue Book later told me I had done OK +.

So, now I gotta get bullets, cases, dies, a tang sight, etc. A guy can go broke getting bargains.

you did real good there! You can tell the date of manufacture by the serial number. The letter at the beginning of the number is the date code.

In my 30-30 lever guns, my money load is 34.5 grains of IMR4320 pushing a Speer 170 grain FP. Depending on which rifle it is, I get between 1900, and 2200 fps. Accuracy is MOA.

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The same load will work in the 32 Spec. with the correct dia. bullet of course.

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i picked up a nice little 336 about 2 yrs ago in 32spcl i was told made in 52 or 53 same price 250.

That's a beautiful rifle, nice find. I load 36gr. W748 and the Speer bullet for my 94 in 32