thedaddycat
New member
Camp 9 stock!!
While reading a post about new laminate stocks for the Marlin Camp carbines, I ran across this:
"camp carbines are notorious for having weak recoil springs and brittle recoil buffers that shatter, causing cracked stocks. I replaced the buffer with a blackjack buffer and upgraded the spring after the buffer in my almost new condition carbine shattered the buffer after being fired for the first time after 20 years of storage.
The buffer came apart in pieces that looked like small pieces of gravel and the stock cracked just above the wrist area behind the back of the reciever.
They are great rifles, but that one easily corrected design flaw must be upgraded ASAP if you're going to shoot it. "
I immediately ordered two new 21# Wolff springs and buffers, for my Camp 9 and Camp 45. Tonight I installed the kit in the Camp 9. This is what I found:
When I took the upper and lower apart, sure enough the buffer was toast.
The new Blackjack buffer is the blue one. That pile of little bits and pieces is what was left of the old one.
The Wolff spring is on the left, guide rod center and old spring on the right.
Now I can take this one out to the range worry-free. I will be doing the same upgrade on the Camp 45 tomorrow. Thanks to TFL and the members here, I have avoided possibly breaking two stocks. I am wondering if the new recoil spring will keep the Camp 45 from throwing the brass 20+ feet... I think this calls for extensive testing!
While reading a post about new laminate stocks for the Marlin Camp carbines, I ran across this:
"camp carbines are notorious for having weak recoil springs and brittle recoil buffers that shatter, causing cracked stocks. I replaced the buffer with a blackjack buffer and upgraded the spring after the buffer in my almost new condition carbine shattered the buffer after being fired for the first time after 20 years of storage.
The buffer came apart in pieces that looked like small pieces of gravel and the stock cracked just above the wrist area behind the back of the reciever.
They are great rifles, but that one easily corrected design flaw must be upgraded ASAP if you're going to shoot it. "
I immediately ordered two new 21# Wolff springs and buffers, for my Camp 9 and Camp 45. Tonight I installed the kit in the Camp 9. This is what I found:
When I took the upper and lower apart, sure enough the buffer was toast.
The new Blackjack buffer is the blue one. That pile of little bits and pieces is what was left of the old one.
The Wolff spring is on the left, guide rod center and old spring on the right.
Now I can take this one out to the range worry-free. I will be doing the same upgrade on the Camp 45 tomorrow. Thanks to TFL and the members here, I have avoided possibly breaking two stocks. I am wondering if the new recoil spring will keep the Camp 45 from throwing the brass 20+ feet... I think this calls for extensive testing!
