The guy purchased it, never shot it. Caught him ready to sell it to the Gander Mt gun counter and bought it on the spot. Has cross.bolt safety, but that remediable. Prolly Skinner sights, to go. That nice minty checkered wood forearm is a bit bulky, so will shop for an older slimmer stock set.

Anywayz, will be at the gun show this weekend - Maumee Valley gun collectors - in Maumee NW Ohio. On my table mostly sporting books, Handloader/Rifle accumulation, oddities and regularities, and sportin' guy ephemera and clutter.

That .357 just about rounds out the retirement battery -- for now.

and, yeah I coulda prolly got cheaper -- but he's old & paying medical bills. As we all are/will be. Pay it ahead!! ;~`)

John, what does the SC indicate?, Marlin website is down to the bare minimum so no information there.

Finding good deals lately. Sounds like an excellent part for your revised battery.

C is for carbine and S is for safety (for a bit after they added the cross-bolt safety). I think they are back to just 1894C even though it still has the safety.

These are NEAT guns. I have a pre-safety. One could get by with it as one's only CF rifle.

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Sincerely,

Hobie

John I sure do like shooting my .357 Marlin, you going to bring your new toy up to Grayling . next summer??

I wouldn't mind one o' them.

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..save for the AR. However, it may mean that I have to find a companion SS DA .357. Ya know, just so it don't get lonely for another gun in the same caliber. ;~`)

And, I didn't get the .357's name-n-clature just right. CS it is. Have to get over to the Marlin board and hunt up the birthday in their serial list. I think I've got a receiver 57 sight around and a big gold bead front sight, so that may do for the nonce, also.

Yes, Grayling is on next year's annual bucket list. Part of an extended Michigan-around. Say the Port Huron and Blue Water Bridge a couple of weeks ago, coming back from a weekeend of dogshow at Goodell's Park. It really IS blue water, and had about all I could do to keep Macha from taking a dive right under the seawall railing and down ten feet to the beeg river. Lots of big floaty things out there to retrieve, like -apparently- freighters.

Later at a beach, just above the entry into the river mouth from the lake, she found out what a ripcurrent was all about: for the first time in her Chessie life NOT in control of direction or speed. Fortunately, I had a sec to shed down to the 'trow and was able to get out there, standing on tip toe a-hold of her as she worked hard to turn towards me. When she got broadside to the current, it was all I could do to toe-scratch gravel in water up to my neck, and get us headed back to the beach. Sorta no time to think of situation, but I thot a lot after that, for a minute of two. Steel pilings and jagged sheet breakwall aren't ideal swimmin' holes for dog nor man being driven by a concrete-stiff fast current..

So, at eight years of age the Irish's Queen Macha learned that there IS bigger and tougher water than she had ever met. Good, me thinks.

So yeah: trusting we aren't in some sort of Revolution or Similar Political/social upheaval, planning on plinkin' plenty up Nort', dere..

subtract the first two digits of the serial number from 100 to get the last two digits of the year of manufacture... e.g., 98xxxxx = '02, etc.

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I've had a few from that era and all were well made, with none of the problems or fitting problems that plague late model Marlins.

I emphatically recommend the Trigger Happy trigger from Wild West Guns, which completely changes the character of the Marlin. Stoning and fitting aside, sights and spring upgrades are also worthwhile, but the trigger is my favorite bang for the buck.

Enjoy!

The overall mfg's standard is very nice on this one, as you predicted. As a bonus, the trigger is crisp as a breaking icicle -- must be the ONLY one ;~`). However the innards, while nicely fitted and finished, can either wear to that slickery point or wait for stones and careful work after hunting season is done.

I was unaware of springs and other aftermarket action goodies. I do want to get a backup ejector, anyway, so please me towards those mods too, if you will. Haven't gone over to the Marlin board to mine info, yet. With current sched it'll be a bit, so mostly the gun'll get shot as is, untill hobby time is more available.

Again, thanks for the info. One of the reason to read this board adaily, besides the fine company -- get the straight story without a bunch of Kommando and Hex-perts running up sixty posts on a simple question.