I swear sometimes I think I am a magnet and draw certain guns to me .
Earlier saturday I happened to find myself on the phone talking with a fellow in Maine about a circa 1908 Marlin Model 1893 in 32 HPS (32 Special) . Nice enough rifle with 26” half round and half octagon barrel . Also has 1/2 mag . Anyway it seems to be coming my way in the semi near future :shock:
After getting off the phone with him and setting everything up I needed to go into the local gun shop and see if I could find some loose OO Buckshot for loading .
Walk in the door and ask . And I get the old standby “NO but I have ....” and he reached around the corner and pulled out a Marlin 336D that was like new except for 2 small nicks in the stock !
Now bear in mind I already have one of these I bought new in 2002 or 2003 . And for those not familiar with the 336D it is a 35 REM version of the Marlin 1895G Guide Gun . And I proceeded to tell him I already had one . He said I know you do and here is what I want for it !
Then it struck me I could have one 336D for jacketed bullets and this new one for cast bullets .>
Now you know everyone needs two of the same rifle so they can use one strictly for cast and the other for jacketed . Heck I'd already done it with Marlin's in 375 WIN and 356 WIN so why not a pair of 35 REM's and besides there were only 1001 of these made !
Yeah like I really needed to talk myself into it ;)
So as you may have surmised I am like a magnet for these things :lovecast: