Marlin 1895 Trapper anyone?

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Marlin 1895 Trapper anyone?

Post by allthegearandnoidea » 05 Sep 2022, 6:24 pm

With a 16” barrel and Skinner peep sights looks like a good thing in 45/70
What does everyone think as a handy sambar bang stick? Also now made by Ruger so not a bad thing
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Re: Marlin 1895 Trapper anyone?

Post by Border_Bloke » 06 Sep 2022, 1:04 pm

I saw Ruger bought them out. Probably the easiest model to make second seeing as the actions, woodwork etc were already in production for the 19" model.

Being so short and light I'd imagine the noise and recoil would be worse than the 19" version with heavy handloads. I prefer the look of the sights on the trapper (if you were using open sights) but I think you'd need to remove them to mount a scope (I may be wrong). The 19" 1895 SBL comes with pic rail for scope mounting so you can have both.

That's my 2c worth anyway.
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Post by bigpete » 06 Sep 2022, 3:13 pm

Too short. Would be deafening
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Post by bladeracer » 06 Sep 2022, 4:08 pm

allthegearandnoidea wrote:With a 16” barrel and Skinner peep sights looks like a good thing in 45/70
What does everyone think as a handy sambar bang stick? Also now made by Ruger so not a bad thing


Doesn't sound like much fun at the range :-)
This mob tested the .45-70 by cutting an inch off the barrel. From 20" to 16" only lost about 90fps with 325gn and 405gn bullets, so velocity isn't really an issue with the 16" barrel. https://matchgrademachine.com/velocity-testing-thompson-center-barrels/#government
It's about 300fps more than you're likely to see from a .44Mag 325gn load in a 16" so it's still pretty strong.
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Re: Marlin 1895 Trapper anyone?

Post by wrenchman » 06 Sep 2022, 11:37 pm

That is a really popular model it is why ruger is is making it.
My son has a cowboy model and was picking up 4570 ammunition this weekend and it is scary the price it's going 70 dollars u.s. a box he reloads so it will be offset and was buying it for the brass to
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Re: Marlin 1895 Trapper anyone?

Post by Wrangler » 09 Sep 2022, 6:12 pm

No thanks
Too short
Too loud
Too light
Too much recoil
Unbalanced.
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