New Marlin 45-70 Is Back To NORMAL!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2024
- Just in time for the New Year, the finger lever on this guide gun shrunk! JK, but it is now appropriately sized for my liking.
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I couldn't think of a better or more reputable, rock solid company than Ruger to continue the incredible Marlin heritage! Nice video!
I bought the new Rugar Marlin 4570 Trapper and love it . I am a huge browning guy But that 4570 is bad ass so much fun to shoot
Ruger has done a fine job. This was the best thing for the Marlin line that Ruger took over. God bless
My goodness what a beautiful and beautifully functional lever gun. I liked the fireside talk but THANK YOU for treating us.
Thank you Buffalo. I really appreciate that! Happy New Year to you!
Thank you for putting out such great videos. I'm 55 years old and partially disabled, so " tactical " is not a reality for me. I appreciate the videos that you make on lever actions, shotguns, revolvers and other old school guns. That's the kind of guns that I grew up shooting. Thanks for the memories. I'm sorry to hear about your sister, but I'm sure God has a plan for you. Have a great new year.
Ruger may turn out to be the best thing that has happened to Marlin in 40 years. Thanks for the fun videos. I am definitely smiling😁🌵
Agreed. Their attention to detail and the fact they make very robust firearms is why I agree.
Now if they will bring back the .22 lr top loader I will be happy , they should have never stop making it but it was a competitor for their 10/22 .
Ruger still puts out their lemons. The only Ruger I ever bought was less than perfect with an ill fitting comb. It was an American Rimfire with removable comb. The high comb did not fit into the main part of the stock well, and the barrel was scratched at the factory. I know this because I watched the dealer open the box by cutting the tape and removing the rifle from the plastic bag. When I got home with the rifle and cleaned all the oil off it that is when the scratch became evident. In Canada most gun shops are final sale because it's too difficult to deal with importing and exporting over the border.
@@jimdent351 I owned one ruger , a 10/22 take down and didn’t like it , I miss my marlin model 60 , wish marlin would bring it back .
@@frankammirati3385 They were a very common little rifle so I'm sure they'll be interested in bringing them back. Now that you mention the 10/22 line, my son ended up with one that was sub standard too. With his the mill work in the wood around the charging handle was poorly finished. There was tear out of the wood fibers in that area of the stock that was difficult to see in a gun shop whose lighting the display of firearms really well but not so well on the other side of the counter. Outside in the sunlight it's very noticeable. Ruger makes some nice ones but people have a tendency to give them too much praise. At the end of the day they're just a company with the same end goals as everyone else.
45/70 is a lot of fun, and is a great excuse to get into reloading because it's almost mandatory at today's prices
Awesome video, George. Always a good time with .45-70s. I recently had both my SBL and my Trapper out for a video and realized how fun those rifles are. If only a guy can afford to feed them. 🙄. Stay safe down there. Happy New Year!
Thanks Gregg. I've got to go back and catch up on some of your vids. Of course, I'll skip the non-compliant ones😄
Sup Gregg!
Nice Marlin. Yeah, the lever you have on it makes more sense, but some of us grew up watching The Rifleman.😉 As I recall from handloading for Dad’s 1886 (early one, 15,XXX serial number, wish I had it now), recoil was more of a hard shove than a blow. Now, max possible loads in my Siamese Mauser 45-70 are in the category of “kills on one end, maims on the other.” 😄 Happy New Year, George!
Glad to see I’m not the only person that fills his pumpkins with water.👍🏻
Haha! Great minds think alike!
Sitting around a fire with friends at the end of the day is one of my very favorite things to do. Great gun, great video sir.
I'm patiently waiting for the re-introduction of the 1894 in .357 Mag. :)
Thank you, George!
Yes, to paraphrase Garfield when he was removing a tightly sealed bottle cap from a bottle with his teeth, "It takes a REAL man to shoot stout .45-70 loads. A real stupid man!" But I wouldn't trade that exhilarating experience for anything. Watching you do that on slo-mo brings a big smile to my face and helps me save on ammo costs! :))
It appears that I now need a Guide Gun to keep my Trapper company.
God bless you and yours, George! Thanks again for all you do.
Thanks for taking the time to make these video's and passing along some great information. Happy New Year!
Thank you for the content you create. Stay blessed in the New Year!
Great video George and happy New Year to you and your family. Look forward to more great stuff in 2023. Cheers!
Excellent video to end the year with! I Always enjoy your content and knowledge.. thank you so much for sharing!
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The Marlin logo "Danger Ahead", first appeared in the painting "His Last Stand". The painting features a dangerous starving grizzly bear being cornered by dogs and two cowboys with guns on horseback. The artist, Fredrick Remington, was a cousin of Eliphalet Remington, the founder of Remington Arms. Every Marlin logo on every Ruger/Marlin firearm is a classy tip of the hat to Remington.
Thankful for you and your videos, George. Happy new year.
I agree on the finger lever size. I always enjoy your content. May you and your family have a blessed 2023.
Glad to see you in the New Year! You having a calming spirit that makes your vids nice to watch. Plus you shook my favorite guns, levers and revolvers! Happy New Year and God Bless!
Happy New Year George. Thanks for what you do. Really enjoy it.
Happy New Year, and God Bless you sir, from a BC Canadian fellow enthusiast . 👍🏻
Love the channel and your honest reviews-- anxiously awaiting the 30-30 too.
Thanks for your content, I know it takes much time and effort and I appreciate your laid back style. Blessings Brother!
Yes sir ! That is a awesome rifle ! I appreciate your videos for the infotainment. I too have been dealing with some family health issues so I have watched/ commented a little bit less but still enjoy the show !
Happy New Year to You and family!
Happy new year. Thanks for what you do. Keep up the good work.
Thank You for all you do. Have a Happy New Year. Thank Janet for sharing you with us! See you again soon.
First of all this is a awesome channel with great content and nice shooting. Love the wood on the Marlin. I've purchased some fine parts from Range Point and they worked great and looked good on my lever actions. Thanks George and have a Happy New Year and God Bless, Slim.
Thank you for a
Great year of Lever Action fun. You truly made me smile quite a few times.
You are welcome! It has been a fun time for me as well. Happy new year!
99% sure you overlayed the sound of an Iowa firing a 16 inch broadside on those first shots 😂
Beautiful
I appreciate your Christian message of Gratitude.
I also appreciate what Ruger/ Marlin is doing these days.
Best Wishes from Montana M.H
I’m glad I stuck around to the end. I really do enjoy your videos, especially the gun repair and smithing. Thank you, you’ve taught me a lot!
Thanks for your patience! And thank you for watching!
Have a new 1895 Ruger-Marlin GBL. LOVE IT!
Happy New Year, George! Thanks for all, the great videos!
Love it! So much fun. I thank you for your work and the smiles. You're a good man.
God bless all here.
Love seeing the 45-70s. I know everyone’s hoping for a 336 next but I’m waiting for the 1895CB! Thanks for all the vids this year…looking forward to 2023. Happy new year George. God bless.
Thanks James! I'd love to see the 1895CB as well. I almost bought one right after I started the channel. Then I ran into the Miroku Winchester 1886 and bought that instead.
An 1886 is at the top of my list too.
Quality camera video! Your accuracy is very impressive, especially with the speed with which you shoot. Love the 45-70. Have moved into black powder now. Impressive accuracy at 300 & 500 yds using 535 grain cast lead bullets from Montana Bullet Works. Great company to deal with. Loved the video as always George. Belated Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! 🎊 Blessings to you and yours. 🙏
Just thought I’d say hello,thanks for all the great videos,and I’m always looking forward to seeing more.Thanks again and have awesome and prosperous New Year.
Happy New Year George, to you and your family. Thanks for the videos.
You are welcome. Thanks for being one of my most faithful viewers and commenters.
I have a 20 year old 1895 model that was made by Marlin, with Ballard rifling. That was before all the crappy years. I installed a big loop lever, a Bear claw extractor, a Williams peep sight, sanded down the wood, thinned down that thick feeling front hand guard, stained and refinished with 4 coats of linseed oil. I also installed an extended magazine tube out to the end of the barrel. It now holds 8 + 1. I made a brass curved butt plate, brass follower, brass magazine front plug and brass plated the front handguard cap. It is beautifully simple, like a workingman's gun.
Happy New Year George!!! I can't wait for the new 1894 in 44 MAG! Jeff
THANK YOU FOR GREAT VID! I carried an old beat up 4570 marlin when I was a meat packer working for a master guide in Alaska. It carried well, not digging in your back like a bolt gun and was a real thumper with hand loads! Hope ruger brings back the 35 rem, and the gold trigger 22 rim fire. Happy new year
You're always showing a rifle that you like and are really impressed with.
I love the 45-70 because it's so versatile and fun to hand load different rounds. I don't have a Marlin 1885, but I do have a modern single shot rifle. I found in the reloading manuals a really stout load that is safe to shoot in my rifle. It kicks like mule! I like to let my buddies target shoot my rifle with regular ammo and then slip in one of my hot handloads. Their reaction is hilarious 😂.
Thank you, sir!
Amen! Have a blessed New Year!
Many Thanks
Great info as usual, you're a great source of information. God bless.
Hi George, hope you and your family had a wonderful CHRISTmas. Y'all have a Happy New Year. The smaller loop on that lever looks very smooth to work. 🤠
Happy New Year George! Thanks for the 45-70 and RPP goodness.
Happy New Year Keith!
love those Lehigh Xtreme defense bullets, and also Marlin lever guns. good to see them back.
Old man , Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours ,
Your having wayyy too much fun with that 45-70 , I put the same lever on mine last year , it works for me as well .
Happy New Year to you.
I will always remember the time I had someone in my squadron shoot at a watermelon with mine.
He had time after firing to raise his head from the rifle, look downrange, be puzzled, look back at me and ask "Did I hit it?" before the chunks of watermelon started hitting the ground with a splat. They had flown so high that it took that long for them to come back down.
Thanks for the nice video! I have a 2019 Remlin CBA. Something about the octagon barrels that I really like. I shortened my butt stock 1 3/8 inches and installed a grind to fit Kick Ezz recoil pad which also measures 1 3/8" keeping the lop the same and giving the wood a hand rubbed oil finish. Turned out to be a very pretty rifle and it will be with me until I die. The recoil pad on your Ruger looks to very similar to what I put on mine. Never enough 45-70 vids
Great video as always! I was super happy to have found your channel. There's far too little good lever action content on here. Your channel is top notch! I'd love to see you do something with Garrett cartridge hammerheads! Your take would be very welcomed! It's top of the heap as far as I am concerned. Although the majority of my shooting with it was a fews years ago and mostly through my original Guide gun, I have since done a little testing in my 1886 which is identical to yours. And I'm happy to report that the recoil is much less painful. But performance is also improved!
Amen, God bless you buddy and Happy New Year...
Thanks! Happy New Year to you and yours!
yeah I live in maine and we can get mighty cold up here, I have seen 80 below zero before (that was the day my aftershave froze to my face).
Just had to come watch you shooting that fine rifle George. God Bless you and your family in the new year. I'm going to be talking to my local gun dealer about acquiring one of these fine Ruger/Marlin rifles real soon. Thanks for the great review, 👍👍
Great shooting specially from the 45/70 one of my favorite caliber 👍 I hope you had a great holidays and a prosperous New Year
Thanks! Yes we had a great year and it ended with great family times.
Great video. Thank you for all the new information and updates... Will Be Praying for you and your family. GOD Bless You
Thanks! I appreciate that!
Really nice video, so thanks for taking the time and effort to make it. Love the Marlin lever guns. I bought one back in the mid-1980s that was in
.444 Marlin caliber. Great shooting gun for sure. It's 265 gr bullet really hit with authority. I used to think of the .444 as the .44 super mag due
to its .44 caliber and extra inch of case capacity. It had hefty recoil but anyone who's shot a .45-70 or a 12 ga magnum load knows all about that.
I would LOVE to see a new Marlin lever gun as a companion for my Ruger Blackhawk in .41 mag. Love the .41 mag round in my Ruger pistol. It's
the most powerful handgun I can shoot well, so it's definitely the gun / round for me. I also handload my own ammo and have since 1981. One
can work up some pretty stout loads in the .41 mag and there are commercial loads that exceed 1,000 ft-lbs of energy, which is plenty for hunting
medium sized game out to 150 yards. Here in the Pacific NW there are plenty of hunting places available that are heavily treed and that have a lot
of brush as well. Not that any bullet plows through brush but because of the brush, shots tend to be close in a lot of places. 75-80 yards is a typical
shot in a lot of places and that's well within the stopping power range of the .41 mag, especially from a 16-18" rifle barrel.
I own one of the last .357/.38 Marlins made at the North Haven factory . . . 2011 IIRC . . . I had warranty work done, but by then Remington had taken over, so my barrel has both 'JM' and 'REM' proof marks! Just needed some threads chased . . .
The wood, fit and finish, excellent. But, the internals were rough as hell. I disassembled the rifle, filed and stoned all the surfaces until tool marks were polished away for a mirror finish, and the action smooth as butter.
I added a Williams adjustable peep sight and a new trigger . . . all I need now is a larger loop and to loosen up the lever latch.
Happy new year and best wishes for. You and your family and the channel this year
God bless brother. Happy 2023
Thank you Ruger, walnut and blud steel. Great job.
Great video! Happy new year!
Happy new year George
Happy New Year George.
Great video as usual! God bless and happy new year!!
Thanks!
Love that rifle it just looks so sweet. I got to get one. Thanks for the great review. 👍
Just saw Buffalo's video from a few years ago where he mentioned your channel. I loved the first video I saw, and subscribed.
this is awsome love the look of the but stock thank you sir
I look forward to your videos. You are not pretentious as so many other channels are. I feel like you are the guy next door and a good friend.
I appreciate that! I spent way too much of my life trying to be cool, only to learn that I always give away the fact that I'm just an ordinary guy . . . who loves to shoot! 😄
Thanks George. you are making a grown man smile.
Happy New Year! Let’s see you do the Richard Mann “Deer Hunter Drill” with that awesome rifle. I have great confidence that you’ll ace it.
Great video have a great 2023
Great. Happy new year.
From my family to your family,hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year
I like seeing the bullseye in the stock. I’d be interested in a 336 in 35 Remington in walnut and blue steel. Nice pumpkin buster for sure. Neat seeing the bullets pass through before the bowling pins move. I know those pins are tough.
Thanks for your comment! And thanks for watching!
I agree. A 35 Remington would be tops on my list. 👍
Beautiful and too cool. Also like the editing with radar/shooting in the corner
Thanks George... So I had to finally breakdown and buy one of the Guide Guns. I'm going to try the big lever that was on it for a while, but may end up going the same way you did.
Congratulations! If you wind up getting a new lever from Ranger Point Precision, please let them know you were motivated by my video. I don't get anything from it, but it will make them feel better for having given me that lever😄
@@TargetSuite managed to get out to the range today... this gun is awesome. My rear sight was a little off to the right, but ordered the Skinner sight and will put that on later anyway. Gonna order that loop soon, I agree, the one on it is a bit too large
Happy New Year George 🎉 👍😃✌️🇺🇸
I enjoy your videos George. You're right about people thinking the 45-70 is over kill for deer. I got my first one and started reloading for it in 01. I've loaded all kinds of bullets at different velocities and those are the keys to what you want to shoot, bullet and velocity. In the fall I shot a squirrel stealing pears off my tree with a cast 215 grain bullet at about 900fps. I hit it through the ribs and I was able to skin it and it's in the freezer now. Just a caliber size hole in and out. If that had been a 300gr hp at 2,400 fps it would have made a mess of it for sure. That was a load I came up with for armadillo control around the place and sometimes even they run 20 or 30 yards after being hit with it but its enough to do the job. That's the bullet I sent double loaded to Jeff of Taofledermaus for fun btw. I've seen lots of meat damage on deer with powerful loads with bullets designed for lower velocities but kept reasonable it's not bad. I'll send you some bullets to try since I know you reload. Happy New Year. It's good to see you're a brother in Christ.
Just found your videos recently after having gained interest in lever guns and am itching to pickup either a Henry or a Ruger made Marlin in 357 magnum. Your calm and informational videos are great treat! Hope you have a blessed new year 🙏
Thank you. Happy New Year to you as well.
@Target Suite Do you know if they have resolved the issue with the rubbing of the hammer? I would like to buy one of these gbl in the coming weeks but was trying to wait it out till the problem had been fixed.
I haven't heard for sure. But I imagine they have. That is a question I will ask the Marlin Folks at Shot Show in a couple of weeks
@@TargetSuite ok let me know if you find anything out. I'm due for a new lever action. Lol
Marlin pulled the 45-70 from the brink of being obsolete, with the guide gun concept!
The 45-70 is a Grand Ol Gal, with lots of character!
Thank you Ruger for saving a almost perfect Rifle from obscurity!
Keep them video's coming. See you next year.
Ranger Point Precision and Mad Pig are doing some fabulous stuff with the Marlins and Henrys!!
Made this old man smile. 45-70 is one of my favorites.
Hopefully they will reintroduce the cowboy model with the 26 inch barrel and 9 shot tube
Happy New Year to you and yours!...
Thanks, Mike! Happy New Year to you as well.
Love the pumpkin bash! Love to see more pumpkin, watermelon and other melon explosions. God speed!
Nice cheek weld while levering! ;-)
But, closer, yet NOT FOR ME. I probably will never see a proper FULL length octogon barrelled, blued ,walnut stocked version (better yet, half ocotgon & round) edition. Nope, that kind of craftmanship must have died with our ancestors at Marlin and WInchester. The Henry company is a little bit more that way, but the mag tube and medium barrel length is still wanting. I reckon I am just too picky.
Picky yes. But your taste is impeccable😄
Just purchased one of these beauties. Thanks for the in-depth review brother. God bless you and you family!
Thank you!
Happy New Year
Great shooting and Happy New Year! 🎉
Great guns, only thing is, good luck finding one.
Happy New Year and God Bless! Maybe your shoulder will recover.
Thank you! Shoulders doing fine. I guess that's a great start to the new year😄
God bless and happy new year. oh just wanted to let you know after i watched your vid on the rossie r92 i picked one up in 357, it looks and feels amazing mine has a great wood to steel fit and looks and feels vary good. will shoot it in the next few days. just wanted to thank you for all your amazing videos.
Thank you for watching! And congratulations on your new Rossi. Have fun!
It never ceases to amaze me, how little affect even a round like the 45/70 has on bowling pins.
They just stand there and soak it up and kind of topple when hit😂
Always enjoy your vids
Look closer. Those rounds are going right through those bowling pins.
@@dogbone1358 i didn’t see that, but still you would think with that big a chunk of a bullet would get a little more reaction from them when it hits em
Thank you sir for your always informative videos. GOD Bless you and your family in 2023.