My Marlin 357 arrived at the dealer and I finally got to check it out. I was really suprised at how smooth the action is and the seemingly very nice trigger. I had shot a friends untuned Marlin with the short bbl and it has a horrible trigger. Except for the pressed checkering the gun is nice. The sales clerk commented that he noticed it was smoother and had a better trigger than normal, but I think that was just talk. I'll shoot it a bit before I decide to tune it up as it seems very adequate just the way it is. Jim