I am late to the party for sure. I bought my first Marlin back in 1975 and it was a 444. I moved on to bolt guns and that is where I am for the most part today. A couple of years ago I bought a 39 at a gun show and there was a Marlin 44 mag floating around for about $550 that looked almost new. Well that got me fired up on lever actions again and I was going to try and buy a few. I wanted something in a pistol cal. like a 357 or 44, and I wanted a 45/70 and long octagon barrels have always tripped my trigger. Well I started a little too late as what I able to find were starting to bring really big prices and it has done nothing but go up.
