I Inquired from a retired gunsmith friend of mine who did work on my problems years ago, about the new marlins... He said they were fine so i bought a 45-70 cowboy remlin recently ...
Had a couple issues, sharp hammer corners, sharp trigger corners, loose magazine tube dovetail, groove in rear sight sliding insert off center, and little things like that...So I fixed them myself, and I shot about 30 rounds of the new ftx 325 .458 and was getting fouling on the lands.. I scrubbed, and shot and scrubbed and shot, and it just wouldnt come out or or stop fouling.. I changed from h4198 to h335, kept the barrel cooler and shot 6 rounds an outing and got it so it would not increase the fouling more than an hour of cleaning would get out the new fouling, that wanted to head for the muzzel.. The problem was I never got the initial fouling out clean..
I figured it was carbon so i got some carbout.. I had to order it so i waited a week for it and in in the meantime soaked the barrel with 7.62, wipout, soaked in kroil for days, jb patches with tight jag, hundreds of strokes, wore out 9 dewy brushes, hoppes etc... So i was elated when the carb-out came, , got home put it in, nothing. let it set for 4 hours, nothing..no color, not black no blue, green whatever nothing. Whatever is in that bore it is not budging. the only thing that kept it from growing down the tube was the dewey brushes and whatever id stick down for cleaner with it, but the base fouling wouldnt budge...
The gun guys generally say fouling on top of the lands comes from rough leads from bad chambering so i took it to a good local gunsmith.. I told him to recut the lead slightly to smooth them up and lap them and see if he could get the fouling out... (if it stops fouling i maybe could slowly scrub the old fouling out..
he look down the muzzel, looked down the breach set the gun down, looked me in the eye and said "[bad] barrel."
I think he ment no need to throw good money into a bad barrel.. I cant argue with him im not a gunsmith.. I was crushed, im 68 and a not whole lot to due with my time.
I took it to where i bought it for 800 dollars (i sent for 100 rebate) and they said they would have thier gunsmith look at it..
Im afraid remlin will tell me to take a hike, or good enough for a deer at 30 yards.. ( It actually shoots fine) Meanwhile im cleaning 2 hrs a night to keep the fouling from the muzzel which will probably affect accuracy...
Sorry the marlins arnt ready for human consumtion yet, in my opinion...
I can guess how much a new quality barrel will cost for a lever action, finished, 3 dovetails, crowned, chambered etc, etc..
This was my baby, now its a pita. that i really cant do anything about right now, may have to dump the damn thing for a pretty big loss..
Im not a happy camper.. 800 dollars is alot of money for a piece of krap.
Sorry if i put this on the wrong forum.. dave
Had a couple issues, sharp hammer corners, sharp trigger corners, loose magazine tube dovetail, groove in rear sight sliding insert off center, and little things like that...So I fixed them myself, and I shot about 30 rounds of the new ftx 325 .458 and was getting fouling on the lands.. I scrubbed, and shot and scrubbed and shot, and it just wouldnt come out or or stop fouling.. I changed from h4198 to h335, kept the barrel cooler and shot 6 rounds an outing and got it so it would not increase the fouling more than an hour of cleaning would get out the new fouling, that wanted to head for the muzzel.. The problem was I never got the initial fouling out clean..
I figured it was carbon so i got some carbout.. I had to order it so i waited a week for it and in in the meantime soaked the barrel with 7.62, wipout, soaked in kroil for days, jb patches with tight jag, hundreds of strokes, wore out 9 dewy brushes, hoppes etc... So i was elated when the carb-out came, , got home put it in, nothing. let it set for 4 hours, nothing..no color, not black no blue, green whatever nothing. Whatever is in that bore it is not budging. the only thing that kept it from growing down the tube was the dewey brushes and whatever id stick down for cleaner with it, but the base fouling wouldnt budge...
The gun guys generally say fouling on top of the lands comes from rough leads from bad chambering so i took it to a good local gunsmith.. I told him to recut the lead slightly to smooth them up and lap them and see if he could get the fouling out... (if it stops fouling i maybe could slowly scrub the old fouling out..
he look down the muzzel, looked down the breach set the gun down, looked me in the eye and said "[bad] barrel."
I think he ment no need to throw good money into a bad barrel.. I cant argue with him im not a gunsmith.. I was crushed, im 68 and a not whole lot to due with my time.
I took it to where i bought it for 800 dollars (i sent for 100 rebate) and they said they would have thier gunsmith look at it..
Im afraid remlin will tell me to take a hike, or good enough for a deer at 30 yards.. ( It actually shoots fine) Meanwhile im cleaning 2 hrs a night to keep the fouling from the muzzel which will probably affect accuracy...
Sorry the marlins arnt ready for human consumtion yet, in my opinion...
I can guess how much a new quality barrel will cost for a lever action, finished, 3 dovetails, crowned, chambered etc, etc..
This was my baby, now its a pita. that i really cant do anything about right now, may have to dump the damn thing for a pretty big loss..
Im not a happy camper.. 800 dollars is alot of money for a piece of krap.
Sorry if i put this on the wrong forum.. dave
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