Originally Posted by aboltfan
Going to be raining for the Vermont opener. I decided to sight in my Marlin XL7 30-06 and use it. I've never loaded for this rifle, just grabbed a box of my basic -06 load. Sight in was pretty dang easy.

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I agree, the Marlin X guns were a great economy rifle, the pinnacle of development of the Savage 110 action design. Marlin just combined the best attributes of the Remington 700 ADL and the Savage 110 series to make what is basically an attractive Savage 110. I like them because they use the same barrel specs as the small shank Savage 110 series, so you can swap barrels easily and relatively inexpensively. I thought that Freedom Group should have morphed the X guns into a Remington when the bought Marlin, but instead they chose the 783. I've yet to meet someone who spent any length of time around the Marlin X guns without liking them at least a little.