I had one too. But unfortunately it got stolen and couldn't find a replacement. You are a lucky young man your grandpa had great taste in rifles . Miss mine alot ,they are a perfect house and farm gun ! I finally replaced it with a Henry case hardened one . Nice but heavier and lacks the half cock hammer notch . The new Marlins have the lawer approved cross bolt safely. Henry just uses a transfor bar . But yours has the best system ! Load it with 125 grain jhp and you have great little power house
Beautiful rifle! I wouldn’t put a sling or scope on a .357 mag, either. My only lever gun is a JM stamped Marlin 336cs chambered in 35 Rem, and for the prices they’re going for nowadays I imagine it’ll stay the only one for quite a while lol. I’m hoping that Ruger decides to chamber the 336cs in the new 360 BuckHammer so the .358 caliber gets more popular, resulting in more bullet choices, but at the ranges most deer are shot, pistol cartridge carbines like your’s are plenty adequate.
An i believe that ours without a saftey an having a gold trigger they being carbine i think 18 an something inches they only made ours well just this configuration for three years i believe from 1980 to 1983 something like that or a couple years an then they had a saftey an non gold trigger but its been a couple years when i looked this info up after I purchased it an man i love it never parting away with it hopefully can give to somone in my family when i get to old to use it !! Happy new years by the way
Love it brotha i have this exacty same gun jm stamped gold trigger pre saftey was built i beleive from what i looked up in 1982 but i love 357 but i shoot it so much that i run alot of 38 through it since much cheaper but anyways love the video an i love lever guns there my favorite i have a collection of!!!
