Mine was also tube fed marlin .22, my first date with one of the black ladies was a couple years ago at a popular "outlaw" shooting range a cop who was part-time FFL was always out there with craploads of cool toys let me fire his A2 a couple of FA bursts, I was hooked, though I never got to shoot this one, just watching him with his barret has me convinced that I must sometime soon have some type of .50. I have been lusting over these black rifles for some time now, ever since I was little and my dad used to watch a TV series on Vietnam called "Tour of duty" he could tell I was fascinated by the weaponry, but he mistakenly bought me a toy full-size AK replica with sound effects, but then got it right with an M16 one.