This is my '71 refinished cut-n-recrown (no porting) double band PG that I call "Shorty"...

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Obviously I am biased... I hunt with a Browning 300 Win Mag and a Marlin in 444... I have taken my two biggest deer with this gun (9 pt and 11 pt)... The deer I have shot have never gone more than 10 to 20 steps if that, most (If I do my part) do what I call the KA-BOOM-PLOP... I do not even hear the click anymore... I saw a nice early model (pre-safety) for $300.00 this morning... Good luck with your choice, it is great to live in a country where we have choices!!!

18.5" Bbl, Matte Black metal, Matte Black bedliner coating on the wood, a small slip on Limbsaver "Sissy Pad" (drops the "felt" recoil to that of a .243), Marlin sling since replaced with a black one amd topped with a Simmons Pro-Diamond 1.5 - 5 x 32... I have escorted two does to the cooler this year with Shorty (so far)...

See you in the woods...

Ron

Last edited by Marlin_444; 12/21/10.
Memento mori (We all gotta go) - - I'll see you at the lake, around the beach, on the mountain & in the woods on this side or the other by & by.