Marlin 336 .35 Rem

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reynolds357

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Is Marlin still making the 336 in .35 Remington? It had disappeared from their website. Now, its back on their website. I have had one back ordered for over a year and the dealer I use cant get a straight answer from anyone on whether or not it will actually ever ship.
For the record, I dont know why I want one, but I just do. I do not really need it and it does not do anything particularly well, but I have always wanted one.
 
One thing that it does well is kill deer. I killed dozens of them with my old 35. And there's just something that feels right about thumbing back the hammer when you see the big buck coming. It seems to lend more importance to what you are doing than pushing a safety to Fire.
 
I couldn't say it better than "603country". Although I'm not sure I could objectively defend my opinion, I always thought the .35 remington was hands down a far better brush/short range cartridge and deer getter, than the .30-30 winchester. For fun you can always load lightweight, jacketed pistol bullets in the .35 remington for screaming velocities, or a cast 158 grain bullet behind some unique makes a quiet, no recoil plinking load. Some people claim that the micro-groove rifling doesn't work well with cast bullets, but I never had a problem with cast bullets at low/moderate velocities.

It seems like marlin's production schedule has been erratic (to say the least) for the past couple of years. I hope you will get your .35 remington. It is worth the wait.
 
I love my early 70's 336 in .35 rem. Everything 603Country and Hammie said pretty well sums it up. I have heard that the .35 rem 336 is discontinued and that cartridge is now obsolete. Don't quote me on this since I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think Marlin has produced a .35 rem chambered rifle since they closed their North Haven plant after they became part of Freedom Group. I realize it still shows up on their website, but some parts of that site haven't been updated in a loooong time
Your better off to look for a good used one that is pre cross-bolt safety anyway.
 
The new Remington made Marlins just have poor quality control. If you get a good one, you got a real good one. If you get a bad one, you really got a dud.
 
The new Remington made Marlins just have poor quality control. If you get a good one, you got a real good one. If you get a bad one, you really got a dud.
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If you realize this then why are you trying to order a new one? I guess maybe you cant get your money back? IMO they don't make Marlins anymore. Only Remlins and Marlingtons. Nice used ones can still be found for $250-$300 if you look around a little.
 
I always thought the .35 remington was hands down a far better brush/short range cartridge and deer getter, than the .30-30 winchester.
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Not per this chart. The 35 Remington loses in every way. And good luck finding ammo for it. My buddy has a pre saftey he wants $400 for. I haven't bought because there was no ammo to be found for it the last time I looked.

http://www.leverguns.com/articles/compare.htm
 
I have plenty of ammo. I have a .35Rem contender pistol.
I can turn down any rifle ordered for me if I am not satisfied. I never put money down on anything.
 
It's a good thing none of the deer I've killed with my .35 read that article:eek: they might not have died so fast!

As for finding ammo for .35 rem, I have a few boxes of 200 gr Hornady LEVERevolution that I bought before the last shortage. That is about the best factory load you will find but I'm not sure of the availability now. I plan on reloading with the brass once I shoot up all the factory ammo
 
@reynolds357: A thompson contender in .35 remington certainly has a high "coolness factor". It should be a fine combination with power to spare. I have a TC barrel chambered for the .357 maximum, and it has been enough for me.

While we're on the subject of the .35 remington, I have always dreamed of a remington 7600 pump chambered for the .35 remington. A 20 inch barrel for it would be just about right.

@stevenchunter: LOL. I'm not sure how meaningful 500 yard ballistic charts are for short range brush cartridges. As Mark Twain said, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Under 150 yards there isn't 5 cents worth of difference between the .30-30 and .35 remington, except that the .35 remington uses a heavier and larger diameter bullet. However, the 170 grain flatpoint from a .30-30 works fine, too, and has likely killed lots more deer than the .35 remington. The nice thing about this country is that we have choices. ...at least for now.
 
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Hello Steve. I never said it wouldn't kill. The chart just shows there is no real "theorectical" advantage to the 35 over the 30-30. So much for theory. I think the 35 should be a whale of a deer killer. It doesn't take much to kill a deer. Finding them is the hard part.

Over 20 years ago I bought a Marlin 39 and was at my buddies land testing it out. A small doe jumped up out of the grass and my bud said shoot it. So I did. With the 11th shot fired from my new rifle. The range was about 50 yards. One shot did it. I was surprised how much damage that little bullet did to the deers inerds.

Like I stated earlier I was seriously considering buying one myself. The ammo and brass/bullet shortage was the deal killer. Besides I have 200gr loads for my Marlin 44 mag that shoot just over 2000fps so that sorta fills my need for a gun in that bracket. But if ammo comes back...
 
Hammie I have read that Remington made a model 7 in the 35 remington round. I have looked high and low for one but with no luck. I even called remington and the girl that answered the phone did some checking but couldn't find anything on it either.

And remington did make a 35 pump. My buddies brother has a new, unfired 760 pump. He will not sell it to me. He knows how bad I want it and just does this to irritate me. And its working too.
 
Oh I am kind to him. He is just being a snot.

At the Dallas GS about 3-4 years ago an old man was standing in the aisle with a very clean 760 pump. I looked at it. He wanted $325 IIRC and like a dummy I passed it up.
 
The 35 remington uses its own unique case and the case can't be formed from any other case that I know of. The 35 whelen is just a necked up 30-06 case.
 
The .35 rem's parent case is actually some kind of odd obsolete European cartridge whose name I can't recall at the moment. But anyway it would be MUCH harder to find that than .35 rem brass so it doesn't really matter. The .35 cannot be made from any other family's case because it has a .460 diameter case head which is different than everything else. .308,'06 and some others are .473
 
Not per this chart. The 35 Remington loses in every way.
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Don't tell the deer. They think that the .35 Remington kills like the hammers of hell, and I'm disposed to agree with them. It's the only one of Remington's cartridges left from the lineup that they introduced with the Model 8 rifle. As I recall, they had a .25, a .30, and the .35 for that rifle. The .35 Remington was a big favorite of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, and he used the Model 8 in his infamous take-down of Bonnie and Clyde. The cartridge has been around for a long time, but has been overshadowed by stronger cartridges and is fairly moribund today.

That's not to say that it isn't as useful as it was when it was introduced in the early 1900s. It launches a 200 grain bullet at about 2100 fps. While in this day of whiz-bang super magnums, that doesn't sound like much, it is still perfectly serviceable as a 150 yard medium game cartridge. It also shines as a cast bullet cartridge. It shares the same bore as the .357 magnum pistol, so the molds you have for the revolvers also work in the rifle. I have just exactly two molds that use gas checks. A 311041 for the .30-30, and a group buy .358 mold that casts a 180 grain wide-flat for the .35 Remington.

Brass is easy to find, and because the .35 Remington operates at relatively low pressure, brass lasts forever. It's not a cartridge that you want to hot-rod, but it is an eminently satisfying round for the game woods.
 
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