This marlin must have been built on a friday...

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jhgreasemonkey

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I posted a great review of this marlin 983 bolt action .22 wmr a while back. Visually the walnut stock is beautiful, the bluing is good, I like the fact that it has great back up iron sights and is tube fed. On my first trip to the range I sighted it in and was impressed with the tac driving accuracy. I did notice that the trigger felt inconsistant which I attributed to the widely disliked T900 trigger operation and the fact that it was new. Did a little research online and this seemed pretty normal. I made a mental note to install a rifle basix trigger down the road and forgot about it for now. All in all I was sold on this little rifle. Well I went shooting with my brother yesterday and took it along to show him how neat my new rifle was. That didn't go so well. I got off one shot, cycled the bolt and the case wouldn't extract. I picked the case out manually and tried loading and extracting several more times with no luck. In addition to that the trigger was mush and had become completely inop after several tries to fire it. I unloaded it again and I pulled the action from the stock and found that the entire trigger mechanism and magazine/extractor assy had fallen out and the fastening screw was sitting there completely loose! Wow how could they forget to tighten this key component? I fixed it by reassembling it using lock tite on the fastening screw and properly torquing it. Now it works fine. I gotta say I am a little put off that a new gun would literaly fall apart basically right out of the box. Thought I should post this to let others know what kind of experience I had with my new marlin.
 
marlin, remington and h&r and maybe some others i dont remember were bought by some huge company and they have all gone down hill in quality.
 
That's what I have been hearing but until now I haven't exerienced it first hand. They can add me to the long list of consumers that won't buy their product until they get straightened out. :mad: I've been shooting and getting new guns since I was a little kid, now I'm 35 and in all that time I have never had a gun literaly fall apart.
 
Cerebus Management bought 'em...along with DPMS.

Now they've re-organized all the gun MFR's under "Freedom Group"...

Marlin's moved the rimfire operation from CT. to Kentucky, we're still waiting to see the first XT-22's
which are the replacement for their entire 925/980 series bolt-action lineup.
CT was eating Marlin alive with Taxes...so the move was no surprise.

Frankly, I'd actually avoid anything built from 2006-2010, as many of the employees at CT Marlin were Extremely Disgruntled
at that time...if you knew you were being phased out and not re-hired at the new plant location, how would you feel??

On the upside, the Kentucky plant is a Remmy plant, so I'm looking to see good things come from there
in 2011/2012 & beyond :)

Mind you, I do have a 2010 Marlin 795, but I also knew what to check for before I took it home.
The Pic rail was off-mill, to the tune of .46 instead of the .43 that its supposed to be.
So I took a tri-file & fixed it, then repainted it. Polished the bolt & rails for easy function.
It shoots like a dream and eats CZ's for lunch now, there's a lot of good to be said for Microgroove barrels :D
 
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