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Posted: 3/24/2015 10:33:37 PM EDT
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Hi, all. I'm bored before bed so I figured I'd tell you all about my new .22 rifle, a Marlin 795, which is just a mag-fed model 60.
Dunhams had them advertised in their circular for 139.99, and I figured I couldn't go THAT wrong at that price. It came with a craptacular 4x scope mounted, which immediately came off. I figured I'd outfit this rifle as a dedicated Appleseed shooter, so online I went for some Tech Sights, sling, and swivels. Oh, and 4 additional mags. While I certainly love me some 10/22, especially the aftermarket support it receives, this Marlin feels solid and I look forward to seeing how it does against some Redcoat targets. I'll attach pics of the transformation once the parts arrive (not too exciting), but in the meantime I'd love to hear from any other current or former owners. |
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My son likes traditional or classic styles, blued steel and wood in firearms. I bought him a Marlin model 795 on his 18th birthday. He likes to shoot but always was interested in other hobbies. I put a 3-9X40 AO scope on his 795 which has a good factory trigger. This rifle has the micro groove barrel and seems to shoot any ammo well. The Marlin also came with a nice wood stock. What stock came on your 795?
I think you bought a great rifle for Appleseed and I really like the Marlin mags better than the mags for my Savage Mk II. |
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My son likes traditional or classic styles, blued steel and wood in firearms. I bought him a Marlin model 795 on his 18th birthday. He likes to shoot but always was interested in other hobbies. I put a 3-9X40 AO scope on his 795 which has a good factory trigger. This rifle has the micro groove barrel and seems to shoot any ammo well. The Marlin also came with a nice wood stock. What stock came on your 795? I think you bought a great rifle for Appleseed and I really like the Marlin mags better than the mags for my Savage Mk II. Mine came with the synthetic stock, which is fine by me. Here's it is now. Mods are incoming. I'll likely also open it up someday and disable the magazine disconnect, because I hate that feature.  " />
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795 is the second most popular rifle on Appleseed lines. It's an excellent design and out of the box I find them slightly more accurate than 10/22s. My next Companion book will be about the Marlin 60/795 family.
DIP, Inc. makes good upgrade triggers and other parts for the Marlins: http://www.diproductsinc.com/Products.aspx?CAT=3603 |
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795 is the second most popular rifle on Appleseed lines. It's an excellent design and out of the box I find them slightly more accurate than 10/22s. My next Companion book will be about the Marlin 60/795 family. DIP, Inc. makes good upgrade triggers and other parts for the Marlins: http://www.diproductsinc.com/Products.aspx?CAT=3603 Thanks for the link, Bob! Yes the trigger is as you would expect from a piece such as this: functional, but otherwise terrible. I think I'll leave it for awhile, but it'll be hard to forget it. I'm going to shoot it a bit, see how everything goes, before more upgrades. I like the Boyds Pro Varmint stocks. Do you have any idea how the comb lines up with Tech Sights? |
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Mcarbo makes a trigger spring kit for them and it's pretty awesome and cheap. You'd probably have to find it somewhere on rimfirecentral.com Thank you for the tip! I searched the name and found their website. Could be a cheap way of fixing that awful trigger. |
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Not many shooting updates, but the Boyd's Pro Varmint stock arrived! It feels a lot better than the factory stock. I like the slimness and light weight of the factory stock, but I didn't care for the wrist or length of pull. This is the 12.75" LOP. Also, the heightened comb works well with where the Tech sights end up, and the slight weight increase should help steady things off-hand.
It's just now been dropped into the stock, and the only complaint I have is that the barrel sits in the barrel channel slightly askew. It also SEEMS slightly canted. Overall though, until I can play with it more, I'm satisfied. Anyway, blah blah blah, here's a pic: 
ETA: the width increase in the stock does make manipulations of the bolt catch more difficult. The overall trade-off over the factory plastic is still in favor of the Boyds, but it'd be nice if the wood was relieved in this area to give more access to the lever. Has anyone attempted this? |
| Go over to rimfire central and learn about doing a trigger job on this type of rifle. The trick is to lower the return spring forces a bit but enough to be reliable. Pulling apart the trigger group is not easy but I just bend the legs of the springs a bit without disassembly. |
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Looks like a serious rig now.  You aren't wrong! Still, I'll probably have to order one of your 10/22 receivers for a bit-by-bit build. The 795 is good and can be made into a serious rig for less than a decent Ruger new, off the shelf, but it'll never replace it. The Ruger just loves customization. I want an all-non-Ruger 10/22 
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Go over to rimfire central and learn about doing a trigger job on this type of rifle. The trick is to lower the return spring forces a bit but enough to be reliable. Pulling apart the trigger group is not easy but I just bend the legs of the springs a bit without disassembly. Thanks, that's good to know. I do want to improve the triggers, and have watched videos. You are correct, disassembling the group looks a little intimidating, at least where time commitment is concerned. Still, the trigger sucks, and will need something done to it at some point. All in all I'm pretty happy with my impromptu purchase. |
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Taking apart the action sideplates can be intimidating your first time, but it is not to bad.
This Tutorial is pretty much what I have done to several of mine. minus cutting anything off the hammer strut spring. I also drilled and tapped my trigger for both pre-travel on the top where a setscrew makes contact with the disconnector, and over-travel on an angle near the top of the trigger curve where the setscrew makes contact with a cross pin in the trigger guard. Even if all you do is polish the sear and hammer contact points and bent the sear spring and trigger return spring so they have less pressure it makes a huge difference. DIP makes a higher quality trigger guard/trigger with improvements already made to it. Also if you can find a Marlin 7000T target sear it will drop in a 795. |
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Taking apart the action sideplates can be intimidating your first time, but it is not to bad. This Tutorial is pretty much what I have done to several of mine. minus cutting anything off the hammer strut spring. I also drilled and tapped my trigger for both pre-travel on the top where a setscrew makes contact with the disconnector, and over-travel on an angle near the top of the trigger curve where the setscrew makes contact with a cross pin in the trigger guard. Even if all you do is polish the sear and hammer contact points and bent the sear spring and trigger return spring so they have less pressure it makes a huge difference. DIP makes a higher quality trigger guard/trigger with improvements already made to it. Also if you can find a Marlin 7000T target sear it will drop in a 795. I have the DIP trigger guard assembly in mine because the original was broken from over torquing the rear screw by the previous owner. I like the pretravel screw but the action needs a bit of pretravel to work 100%. I never did install an over travel screw. I measured mine at a nice 3 lbs. Not as good as my 10/22's but very shootable. My 75C is one of my favorites and it cost me $106. |
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