Home Forums Lever Action Central Marlin 336 Lever Actions Marlin - please make a 336 in a "small" caliber...

I love the idea of a 25-35 (see no reason to mark it 25-36)...

I think some folks live on a different planet. Using the Marlin for calibers like the 220 swift, 257 Robts. 250 Savage is madness IMO....somebodys going to come up short an eye if they are lucky and maybe a head if they get unlucky.

That's for sure!

I have a couple of Win. SRC in 25-35..I shot my first 3 or 4 elk and probably more than a 100 deer with it over the years..Used properly its a great deer gun, just don't shoot over 200 yards max and don't gut shoot anything or you will never find it. A 117 gr. bullet in the heart/lungs puts them down pronto.

I think a 336 carbine in 25-35 would be outstanding..I would scope mine with a 3X Leupold in Stith mounts if I could find them. I don't have a scoped 25-35..

I use it today for hunting mule deer behind my house..It brings back days past and good times of my youth. It still works today just like it did back then. I hunt with my grandson, on horses and I usually shoot the first legal buck I see and we love deer meat chicken fried, with salsa, white gravy, pinto beans and biscuits, it just doesn't get any better than that. In fact, for me, it beats all my hunting in Africa or the rest of the world..I leave the big bucks for him or some other needy kid. I have already shot my share of the big boys.

Mr. Atkinson,

That is a class act Sir. Thanks...Bill.

Just curious, but how does a .357 Mag. compare to the 25-35? Velocity-wise, energy-wise, etc.?

They are pretty close with nearly same weight bullets. The 25-35 will have the sectional density advantage. The 357 can use heavier bullets.

Best Hodgdon loads:
25-35
117 GR. HDY RN H380 30.0 2357 34,900 CUP

357 Mag Rifle
110 GR. HDY XTP H110 23.0 2398 37,200 CUP

Bruce

Thanks, bcp.

http://www.browning.com/products/ca...alue=003B&cat_id=034&type_id=006

they already make blrs in 243, and used to make them in 223 and 257 roberts

How hard would it be to rebarrel a Marlin lever? To my thinking, easy conversions would include....

.357 magnum to 256 Win
30-30 to 25-35
35 Rem to 25 Rem

Trouble with 35 Rem to 25 Rem conversion... The 35 Rem case is a larger diameter then 32, 30, and 25 Rem case (which was really only a rimless 30-30 case).

So it could be called a 25-35 Rem instead of Win and would be rimless.

You sure about that? I can't put my finger on them but I am pretty sure I have seen a couple different pics of just such a occurrence.

I love the way a 1895 Cowboy so configured holds in the hand compared to their other model with beefier fore ends and checkering.

It will never happen. Marlin is too much like a government agency. Their motto should be "... do as little as you can possibly get away with..." They don't innovate because they don't have to. They do ok with turning out the same stuff year after year (most of which is actually ok, but rifle nuts want something different), except for some guns with trivial, mostly eye-catching changes, the demand for which doesn't seem to last.

I tried to get them years ago to re-tool to come out with the .25-35 in the 336, no dice, they tried to tell me ammo wasn't available. I think their workforce must be a bunch of old guys who should have retired years ago, no marketing insight, no finger on the pulse of what the shooting public would like to see, and no willingess to make a few waves.

The one effort they did try turned out to be lukewarm, as it was a long-action bolt action rifle, and was something any serious shooter could have told them would be a flop, as each of us have had a .30-06 or .270 since we were 15 years old, and now have probably a couple of each. If they had brought out the Model 7 in a .222, a hornet, a .225, a .220, or a 7x57 or any of the classic small bore centerfires, they might have had something.

I like Marlins, and own a couple and have had a couple of others, but man are they dull.

forepaw