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Anyone have a list of them? I prefer them for modifying. Love the grip cap. Pistol grip. WW trigger. Stubbed magazine. Peep and scope combo. Pondering a stubby 375 for cast bullets. It would be rebore with Ballard rifling, I expect. Also, a 30-30 build for a brother in law.
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I know there was of course Glenfield. I own one. I can't recall other brands. Also, what are fair prices now?
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I had a Western Field for a while I got cheap at a pawn shop way back when. Super chinsey wood and sights like the economy Glenfield model 30, but it shot well. I don't recall the exact WF model number, but it was identical to a model 30.
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I like those, I can modify them without qualms.
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I know Sears had JC Higgins Marlins too, and KMart had an economy line of them. I'm sure there were others from the 50s into the 80s. Those are just the ones I've seen firsthand.
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Had one come thru the shop a couple years ago under the name Foremost, which I think was a J.C. Penny brand. Of course there were Revelation Western Auto Marlins as well.
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Glenfield was the big one followed by Revelation and Western field, JC Penney, Western Auto, Sears, and Westpoint/ Cotter & Co
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Had one come thru the shop a couple years ago under the name Foremost, which I think was a J.C. Penny brand. Of course there were Revelation Western Auto Marlins as well. Yup that was JC Penney
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Apparently Firestone model 10P64 is a Marlin 30-30 too
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You guys are fount of information. So cool.
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Sears had the model 54, a Winchester 94 with different badging. Im not sure if it was marked Ted Williams.
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Sears had the model 54, a Winchester 94 with different badging. Im not sure if it was marked Ted Williams. There was a Ted Williams marked 94 and also a Sears marked 94
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and Westpoint/ Cotter & Co Yes, I have seen one of those as well. It was a model 33.
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I have a mint OTASCO Trailrider from 1980. Forend cap and coin in the stock. I actually bought it to modify, but ashen I got it it was so clean I couldn’t do it.
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I know Sears had JC Higgins Marlins too, and KMart had an economy line of them. I'm sure there were others from the 50s into the 80s. Those are just the ones I've seen firsthand. I inherited a Marlin 30AS from an uncle in 2001, it's an economy model with no checkering, no sling studs, and what I think is walnut stained birch for the stock. All Marlin markings and the serial number puts it at 1991. I've heard these were made for places like KMart & Wal-Mart so they could sell brand name guns at good prices versus store brands. I put sling studs on it, scoped it ( it was drilled & tapped), and it shoots as good as any 336 I've seen. Anybody know if there's any truth to that KMart / Wal-Mart story?
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Marlin did make some Marlin branded economy models specifically for KMart, they have thier own model designation... AK TK, something like that. Not sure if Walmart ever had a specially designated Walmart model.
The 30AS was pretty much the absolute lowest tier Marlin that I'm aware of, but I'm not a Marlin expert so I could be wrong. I had a 30AS as well... one of, if not the first of quite a few Marlin 30-30s I've had over the years. Picked it up at a pawn shop for under a bill when I was a broke college kid. Ugly club, but it shot really well with 170grain bullets. I had that one and the Western Field around the same timeframe. The WF had even worse wood on it than the AS. It seriously looked like laquered pine... it was yellow.
Man, as cheap as those economy Marlins were now, and as much as they bring now, I wish I would have bought a whole barrel of them to hang onto for 20 years and then flip 🤣 They were not hard to find for 75-150 bucks in pawn shops and LGS racks.
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