Bugger;
Morning sir, I trust the day's behaving for you and you're all well.

Regarding your short barreled Marlin in .44 mag, I've had a bit of a thing for carbine length lever guns since I was a kid and my buddy's dad had a '92 in .44-40 that we'd handle and drool over.

Up here while we can't be trusted taking our handguns anywhere besides a range, thus far they'll allow short barreled rifles and shotguns as long as they're manually operated.

A buddy just bought one of these in .44 magnum, but I've not shot it.

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It's a 12" barrel so I'm guessing it'll be more "barky" than my off season truck gun which is a 16" .357.

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While they are certainly short barreled and rifled, I don't really consider them for hunting though they surely could to that in a pinch I suppose.

All the best to you all and Happy Thanksgiving.

Dwayne

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