You know, Lever Addict, all this Marlinitis stuff is just nonsense. I can walk away from a Marlin anytime I want. I really can. Really. I can. It's just when you tell me to hold yours for you while you go to the boys room, and I'm left to wander around the gun show with it, holding it, fondling it, and then to have 2 guys come up to me and offer to buy it off me right then and there, that it becomes a little much. Then to have you take me over to this Marlin display and show me a gun just like yours, mint, but in blue with walnut, that things just go over the top. I am, after all, human, with weaknesses. I'm strong, and determined. I did say to you I was not going to buy a gun. And I was tempted by some beauties that I showed you. But no, you had to stick that blue/walnut ported GG beauty in my hands didn't you? Well, that's more than I can take. Ah well, I still think I can walk away from a Marlin. Unless it's the right one. Thanks buddy. Really it is a beauty, and it balances beautifully with the scope on it. Now, to sight it in, get a trigger job (crisp, but a little heavy), maybe a Decelerator or a Simms pad, work up some loads (hope to get good groups - my SDG is a half-incher at a hundred yds.), and then make some meat. You are a bad influence, my friend. You know I'm sick, and weak. Marlinitis... bah!
