Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Marlin 882 past due love

Dug war wagon out the tater bin for a pic

A lot of them do. I know I wouldn't want to get shot in the head with it.


Fine rifle BR. It seems pretty much all of them shoot well although you may have to find a round it likes.


Stone killer right there - fine bird and fine young man earlybrd.

LOL @ war wagon that's a purdy one right there.


Awful fine looking rig for turtles. That's got to be one of the purdiest ones I've seen yet. Those laminated stocks sure look nice on them.

I love that "take the Picture already!" look on his face.

Great photo.

That is an 882. The 883 has a tube magazine.

I have a 882 22 mag. It's not fancy and yeah the trigger is too heavy unless you work on it. But it's tough as a hammered nail and has served me well for 30 years. Pretty accurate for an inexpensive rimfire rifle too. I carry mine when checking on corn feeders on our hunting grounds. The crack of that little 22 mag is the last thing a lot of hogs have heard before a 40 grain HP hit them behind the ear. Good little close range varmint gun.

Same model here......

I had the ss lam 883 for years, one day noticed something was a miss, the bottom pin/screw on the trigger had broke, total pain to get out, and to drill out enlarged hole in process some, got it repinned and working but it always bothered me. Sent it down the road. They are bringing good money these days.

I do have a real nice 783 though

I'll be damned. I went to take a pic to prove I was right and it sure is an 882. I must be dyslexic - I looked dead at it 4 or 5 times and read 883 every time. Thanks Blackheart - someone else pointed it out more subtly and I was too dense to get the hint. I changed the thread title to reflect that.

Lots of variations on that rifle!

I have an older JM marked 882 SSV. Stainless varmint contour barrel. 3-9x40 Leupold VXII, trigger redone to 3.5 pounds. Custom camo job.

Nice rifle, but I really ought to sell it, or trade it off for lack of shooting. Not shot it in years.

That's nice! rockinbbar. I am tempted to paint my stock and grind out the trigger serrations but I'm probably too lazy to. Plus, I'm still in the "not sure where I'll end up" phase of my life so with my luck I'd paint it jungle and be in NM a year later - lol.

Timely thread as I was just given a beat up 782 that I’m going to do some sort of refurb on. Debating oiling the stock back up and cold bluing the metal or just painting it all

Cool stuff! I have a Marlin 782 that I got when I was 17. It’s hell on groundhogs inside 125-150 yards. My longest kill was 152 yards. Tried to shoot tree squirrels with it. Too destructive for that. Also have a Marlin 17HMR, and a 99 M1 .22LR. I need to break them out and give each a good going over.

Ron

Use fmj/tmj on tree rats. Hollow points and soft points are too destructive.

DIY trigger job with pics can be found here:

https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/marlin-882-925-25-etc-trigger-mod-job.81505/

Be careful polishing trigger/sear contact. There's very little metal there to begin with so if you take much material off, it will be become unusable.

Thanks Geno!

Ron

Dated mine to be a 1974 year of manufacture. My 7 yo decided he want to redo it with me so we got a good start this weekend.

He also said it needed to stay blued and wood for now so the scratched and lightly pitted brown patina metal got buffed with some entry cloth and 3 coats of cold blue applied. Still has some visible flaws but I didn’t plan to make it look new.

All new factory springs and screws on order from numrich.

The thick factory finish was stripped and the stock is currently drying from its second coat of spar varnish allowed to soak in and wiped dry to seal the wood. 2 more seal coats and we will star tru oil hell until the foreman (7yo) says it’s done.

If nothing else it will be a fun project with my boy and I won’t be into it for more then $80 all in. Pretty sure the boy will claim it as his when it’s all complete but so be it.

TAG

I always use my rifles for 20 years before I adjust the trigger.

LOL

Figured I would bump this up now that my 7 yo is finally content with the stock finish we built up on it. Was a fun project and after replacing all the screws, springs and recoil pad I’m into it about $115 so can’t complain. Will see how it shoots here soon.