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The word was, that Marlin sold out because the FAMILY wasn’t interested in running a business, anymore. They were interested in “cashing out”, so all the heirs could go build mansions/etc, without the hard work.

Teal,

Many things are sold when the owner is offered a price they can't turn down. As I was not involved with the sale/purchase, I can't say why it was done. Freedom Group was buying everything they could get their hands on at that time.

However, at the time of the sale I was working at H&R as a test shooter for the engineering dept. H&R had been bought by Marlin several years before I started there. The barrels for the rifles were being made by Marlin and shipped up to the H&R plant as rifled blanks. H&R was very profitable and was working on new products and improving their line of existing products. I was there when the employees at the plant were called in to the cafeteria and told they had been bought and would be moved to Ilion, NY.

Had that not have happened, H&R would still be in business. I see no reason Marlin wouldn't be as well. They were making the models and calibers everyone is so hot for today.

A 59 page manual. Amazing.

I remember reading that somewhere too.

I am not too crazy about the stemmed peep sight. It will catch every vine and bramble in the woods.

Having used those sights on guns in brushy southeast Alaska, I can tell you it’s not an issue.

Marlin and then Remington sold every one of these they could make ,most at scalper prices.They will sell these like hot cakes also.

Because the owner died and the kids weren't interested in running it

Yup its the most in demand model

There's no accounting for poor taste.

I'm still young enough to appreciate it. If I didn't already have the Guide Gun I'd have to have it

A general lack of common sense - amazing.
That said, the manuals are a way of lawsuit-proofing businesses. To an extent (as you well know, Ed)
It is disgusting to me that juries can be led, so easily, down "the primrose path" - and disabused of using their own common sense, in rendering a verdict.
Judges set the parameters, instead of common folks making a common sense decision.

The guide gun isn't a bad looking rifle. Still there are no grizzlies hereabouts so I have no use for one.

They are misdirected for sure. If they made that in 308 mx or 30-30 they would be on backorder for ten years

I HAD one of those Marlin Dark 444's that I guess were intended to be "tacticool". Thing was ugly as sin with the black stock and forend looking as though they were simply matte black rattle canned. Only reason I bought it was when they were first announced I told a good friend who owns a LGS I wanted the first one he got and didnt want to go back on my word. He gave it to me at like $50 above his cost. Ended up never even taking it out of the box after I brought it home and last summer listed it on broker at a no reserve penny start sale. Ended up at I believe $1800 or some stupid number and I basically tripled my money!

I'm hoping Marlin keeps the 30 cals on hold and does the 444 next

Just to be clear, the sights you use have an exposed stem?

If you really cared about 444’s instead of being a poser, you would already own enough 444’s

That's happened/happening in every industry in
the US now. Places started by grandpa and taken
over by the son and grandson was being groomed
to take over are bought out by "investment groups "
and they install management that has no experience
in that particular field, but has that degree on the wall
I'm always reminded of the old television commercial
where the guy says " Gee boss, I always wanted to
fix a transmission. . . "
Lots of old time restaurants in this area are boarded
up or bulldozed because the kids didn't want to put
in the work that made dear departed dad so
successful.

I like it, but I've got 50 years of great ideas, that weren't, behind me.