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Posted: 8/4/2026 6:05:35 AM EDT
Picked this up used as new, it’s a newer production as previous owner fired 3 rnds and didn’t like it  One thing I noticed compared to my 45-70 magpul trapper I picked up a year ago there’s no trigger flop, did Marlin update them? 
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So, is that one of the Ruger productions? I have one of the Marlin/Ruger 1895 SBLs. Love it. Kinda heavy, though. I bought a Rex Silentium MG7 in .458 for it. How much did you pay? My impression is Ruger straightened out a lot of production issues with the older ones. Yours looks nice. Enjoy it. |
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Originally Posted By SR712: So, is that one of the Ruger productions? I have one of the Marlin/Ruger 1895 SBLs. Love it. Kinda heavy, though. I bought a Rex Silentium MG7 in .458 for it. How much did you pay? My impression is Ruger straightened out a lot of production issues with the older ones. Yours looks nice. Enjoy it. Yes it’s a newer production Ruger/Marlin. Picked it up for 1100.00 cash  with 3 boxes of Hornady leverlution ammo minus 3 rnds previous owner fired and a Montana sling.
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| I have not looked at the newer production Marlins but I doubt the denounced through ignorance "trigger flop" has been eliminated. The presence of socalled trigger flop indicates that one of the safeties which prevents releasing the hammer until the bolt is fully closed and locked is present and operational. The previous owner may have Fudded with it. |
| My brother-in-law bought that same rifle a few years ago. It's a really nice rifle - Very accurate and handy. It kicks about like a 12ga with slugs, but not as hard as a maverick 88 or single shot 12ga with 3-3.5" turkey loads.... I love the ghost ring sights, the first shot I took rung steel at 100yards off-hand. Very nice trigger, no slop. 10/10 |
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Originally Posted By Mindless: I have not looked at the newer production Marlins but I doubt the denounced through ignorance "trigger flop" has been eliminated. The presence of socalled trigger flop indicates that one of the safeties which prevents releasing the hammer until the bolt is fully closed and locked is present and operational. The previous owner may have Fudded with it. Previous owner didn’t do anything to it, it doesn’t have the trigger flop like my other one. |
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I suppose mine has the flop but it’s one of the granddaddy versions. Old marlin. I’ve never truly noticed the flop, other than the elk flopping over. That lever on yours is a huge improvement over mine. I had to knock all the edges off mine or it would cut you. I tried a lot of different handloads, settling on a 405 JSP moving 1350. Stout recoil, but nothing like 1800 fps. Also accurate at that speed, 50 yd cloverleaf’s are not hard. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By KILLERB6: Lucky for you the previous owner decided to start with Leverevolutions.  Those were the last factory loads I bought and they weren’t very expensive. But that was years ago. They were accurate enough I bought just the bullets to try. Never have tried them on elk tho. |
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Originally Posted By cccpNyC: Shit. I am planning to sell my 45-70 with like 9 boxes of ammo and thought I was too high at $950  I like it, I just don't shoot it enough. The ammo has price tags on it, 59.95 a box, plus I got a Montana sling with it which is another 50.00. The previous owner bought this not long ago, only fired 3 rnds. I figured to buy that gun new, with ammo and sling would have been around 1500.00 give or take a few. I don’t shoot that ammo and sold it to a buddy for 100.00 cause he shoots it and doesn’t reload. All said and done I have 1000.00 in it, can’t touch that anywhere for that price, I was in the market for that particular gun so to me it was a good deal for basically a new gun. If I were you I’d sell the gun and ammo separate for a better return. |
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Originally Posted By 0100010: Have read in a couple places the the newest Marlins no longer have the floppy trigger. I can vouch that this one has no trigger flop, has a spring in the trigger that eliminates it. The flop never bothered me, doesn’t affect anything it’s just kinda weird that through the years Marlin never did anything. Took Ruger a few years but the eliminated it, and the trigger feels better, haven’t measured it yet but it’s better then my magpul edition 45-70 and that one breaks at 4-4 1/2 pounds |
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