man what a beautiful carbine.

prices for these now reach $1500 plus.

supper nice craftsmanship.

10 round mags made by a company but costly.

discontinued due to production costs. i can see why, it is beautiful.

re-introduce it in .44mag and 10mm.

They should build one based on their new PC Carbine but give wood as a stock option.

I would like to see a slightly beefed up version in 450 Bushmaster or 350 Legend

amen     need it in 10mm an 44 mag  would be a huge seller

oops, forgot 10mm is rimless. too much design differences between 2 carbines.

just .44mag then please.

beautiful mags but costly.

could be cheaper mass produced by ruger under license using cheaper material.

Kicking myself for not buying a used one for about $200-300.

Would have made a good camp rifle for my wife and kids.

I've owned and hunted with a Deerfield for 15+ years. It is a great carbine, but unfinished IMHO (and Bill Ruger's too). The magazine release needs a complete redesign. Other improvements that would be nice on an updated version would be to move the op rod finger tab forward so it doesn't dig into the palm of your hand when the rifle is carried at the balance, a forward "scout" rail, a melonited finish, etc. A real walnut stock in place of the cheap "hardwood" and a wood handguard would also be great too. They should build the new version in 44 Mag, 454 Casull and 480 Ruger.

I've been wanting a rifle in 38 Special,  would love to see Ruger do a new series of lever guns in pistol calibers under the Marlin name but a semi auto would be fun as hell also

Unfortunately I think that ship has sailed. As reported they would be too expensive to build now, but I think more practically their own offerings in AR rifles chambered in 450BM and 350L have replaced the “need”. With the changes to hunting laws being perfectly suited to the Deerfield, Ruger went the other direction because it was cheaper and the technology was settled. I had one and really enjoyed it but it became too valuable to use for my style of deer hunting. Ultimately I sold it and with that money I built 2 450s in AR platform with glass and all and still had money left over for ammo.

I picked up a used one from the 1960s with a broken stock that would not fire very inexpensive ly.

It needed the bolt that keeps gas from escaping out the front of the piston, and a little fitting.

I did not know my history as I thought it was the new magazine fed one when I asked to see it, but it is the old tube fed one.




With lever guns in 44 mag at $500 to start, bolt guns around 900$, I’m not sure if they could make one of these tube fed semi autos in that price range.  The 44/Deerstalker cost of production was too high to sell and make a profit on when they discontinued it about 40 years ago.

The 99/44 Deerslayer was not on the market very long at all.  I think they discontinued a lever version as well.

Maybe if it took DE magazines for more cpacity?

Better pic.




Those ten round mags look awesome, wish I had one of the newer ones

Yea, i would definitely be a buyer if it had available 10 round mags and a barrel twist rate and rifling to accommodate HEAVY bullets.

A .357 would be even better IMO.

I have done the "write the CEO" thing with that suggestion several times.

Probably not.
44 mag carbines are going to exist in lever guns forever tho.
a light, handy, short semi in 44, 454, 460, 480, 500 would excite a relative few of us. Excite us quite a lot, but the majority of gun owners will continue to buy cheap AR's and glocks.
We can hope

Could a upper be chambered for these pistol cartridge's, and feed reliably, through a standard AR lower?
A insert in the magwell to accept pistol mags?

My son’s first deer rifle. He killed a bunch of deer and several hogs with it.
Made in 1976.  
I need to refinish the stock.

Just guessing, but with current atmosphere concerning semi-auto rifles being a factor, and Ruger having bought Marlin, I would think that Ruger would be devoting their energies towards making lever-action rifles, as opposed to re-introducing semi-auto rifles.

Ruger needs to make a decent return on their investment, and offering a modern version of the Deerfield semi-auto would compete against their soon-to-be-offered lever action rifles.

I'm a little surprised Ruger hasn't made a Mini in .450 and .350. They've made .450's in every other platform they have- #1, bolt guns and AR's.

IDK, but the Mini rifles, both the -14 and-30, were designed around certain ctgs long ago. Not certain that Ruger wants to spend the money on yet another Mini variant while they are selling all the Mini-14s and Mini-30s they can make.  There certainly have been Minis made in the past for ctgs other than 5.56 and 7.62x39, but they were not popular enough for Ruger to keep making them, with the possible exception of .300 B.O..   Unless there is an overwhelming customer demand for a ctg chambering that suits the current Mini platform(s) (and currently offered magazines) with scant modifications, I can't see it.  Definitely could be wrong, though.

Ruger will likely be much more interested in making the most of their investment in Marlin firearms, and is probably devoting a good deal of their talent in doing so.  Other projects, presumably far along in the development process, will appear, eventually.  I predict a tube-fed 10-22 sometime in the future, if only to be sellable in States that ban mag-fed rifles.  Perhaps also a tube-fed bolt-action .22 as well, for same reasons.

Having no special knowledge, I suspect that  Ruger is re-designing the former Marlin rifles to be adapted to lower-cost investment casting methods that Ruger typically uses. This takes time, but reduces costs. Also likely that Ruger is investigating making such rifles in such a way to make them readily adaptable to many different calibers, and perhaps take-down versions.  Time will tell.  

No doubt that Marlin aficionados will sneer at the Rulins, but One can only hope that Ruger sees fit to make their new rifle parts so they fit into older Marlins.  That would be a kind gesture, and perhaps a smart move on Ruger's part.

Just saw one of these at my LGS.  First one I've seen in years and didn't look like it had been shot very much at all.  In very, very nice condition.  $999.99.  Handled it for a few minutes before realizing that a few hundred rounds of 44mag would cost as much as the gun