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Posted: 10/31/2014 12:30:54 PM EDT

.375 win marlin 375??? Anyone have one? I can pick one up for $500. Should I?

Posted: 10/31/2014 6:36:17 PM EDT

[#1]

Good close range thumper. Not sure I would pay that much. Not sure about ammo availability.

Posted: 11/1/2014 9:19:01 PM EDT

[#2]

I had one years ago, Great woods rifle

Posted: 11/1/2014 11:16:22 PM EDT

[#3]

It's a great gun......I shoot a 38-55 Marlin Cowboy.....and the .375 is basically the same thing just loaded to higher pressures.
Get it!

Posted: 11/2/2014 5:58:51 PM EDT

[#4]

Great price. Great cartridge. As stated, it is really a 38-55 renamed so it could be marketed with higher pressure ammo.

A real thumper that doesn't beat the shooter up. It will do everything the 45=70 will out to about three hundred meters.

Posted: 11/2/2014 6:03:39 PM EDT

[#5]

It's a great rifle. Only problem is no ammo. You have to reload and brass is usually a once a year production run. I have been on a waiting list with Sierra for bullets for over a year. I have about 200 brand new pieces of brass with no bullets. I could go with hard cast lead but I want some factory equilivent loads.

Posted: 11/2/2014 10:27:37 PM EDT

[#6]

IF the gun is in good condition that is a great buy. Only problem is finding ammo if you're not a reloader. I don't think factory ammo has been made for years and the stuff that pops up on GB is selling for $60-$70/box. To me the .375 Marlin is more of a collector item due to the ammo situation and the fact that Marlin only made them for three or four years.

Posted: 11/3/2014 7:05:57 PM EDT

[#7]

I'll go against the grain and say that's a terrible price for a rifle with an almost non-existent ammo or brass supply.

Attention .450 Marlin owners, this is your future.

Posted: 11/3/2014 10:11:56 PM EDT

[#8]

I have one and have had for 20+ years. It truly is a thumper all out of proportion to its paper ballistics. I've killed both deer and hogs with mine. Loaded with a 220 gr. Hornady (still produced by Hornady) to just under 2200 fps they it's dropped everything I've shot with it in its tracks. I'd not hesitate to hunt elk with the round so long as the range were under 150 yds. or so.

I'd imagine if a man is patient he can find brass.

Posted: 11/4/2014 9:33:23 AM EDT

[#9]

If you are a reloader I'd offer 450 and see what happens.

Posted: 11/4/2014 12:20:33 PM EDT

[#10]

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I have one and have had for 20+ years. It truly is a thumper all out of proportion to its paper ballistics. I've killed both deer and hogs with mine. Loaded with a 220 gr. Hornady (still produced by Hornady) to just under 2200 fps they it's dropped everything I've shot with it in its tracks. I'd not hesitate to hunt elk with the round so long as the range were under 150 yds. or so.

I'd imagine if a man is patient he can find brass.

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Hornady has a "temporary suspension" on the 220 grain bullets. It's been this way for a while. None of my local retailers seem to carry them, and I can't find them online. Do you have a source?

Posted: 11/7/2014 3:41:55 AM EDT

[#11]

That's not a bad price from a collector price. Marlin produced less numbers of the big bore rifles in 375 Win. The prices I have seen for the Marlins are $800-1000 and I've only seen a few at that. Winchester produces ammo currently and it's around $60 a box. I have seriously wanted to get a 375 Winchester but It won't do anything a 30-06 can do more effectively.

I still want one someday just because I think it would be a lot of fun to take and shoot some game with.

Posted: 11/7/2014 11:03:27 AM EDT

[#12]

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Hornady has a "temporary suspension" on the 220 grain bullets. It's been this way for a while. None of my local retailers seem to carry them, and I can't find them online. Do you have a source?

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I have one and have had for 20+ years. It truly is a thumper all out of proportion to its paper ballistics. I've killed both deer and hogs with mine. Loaded with a 220 gr. Hornady (still produced by Hornady) to just under 2200 fps they it's dropped everything I've shot with it in its tracks. I'd not hesitate to hunt elk with the round so long as the range were under 150 yds. or so.

I'd imagine if a man is patient he can find brass.

Hornady has a "temporary suspension" on the 220 grain bullets. It's been this way for a while. None of my local retailers seem to carry them, and I can't find them online. Do you have a source?

I don't have a source and haven't been looking because I still have an ample supply of bullets. I did that Laham has them in stock. Also Barnes makes a 255 gr. FP for the .375.

Posted: 11/10/2014 9:03:56 AM EDT

[#13]

Ohio just put that caliber on the approved list for deer hunting. Since then calibers like .375, 444 and 45-70 have been on the gun stores shelf in much larger quantity.

Up here that gun would ball park around $800

Posted: 11/12/2014 9:16:14 AM EDT

[#14]

I purchased my 375 Marlin at the local sheriff auction two years ago.

It is a great gun for any big game with in 200 yds. And that price is a good
deal for the gun.

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