View attachment 19376 Hi folks, New member from Maryland and after seeing all of your 444's I had to join so I could share mine. I'm not sure what year it was made but I can tell ya see shoots great and hits hard. More pics and info to follow. Thanks for a great site.[/QUOTE®]Welcome to the 444 Marlin® Lodge, now trot right over to the New Members Forum and introduce yourself! Again WELCOME!
this is my 1977 444s it has a vintage 1970s 2x7 leupold. and the sling i made from a pair of vintage horse reins.this gun gets a lot of time in the woods. the recovered bullets are my handloads from deer. they are 300gr. hornady xtp. hps most i do not recover. this gun is a tack driver with h4198 View attachment 19655 View attachment 19656
Thats an awesome rifle bloodgroove!! Whats its story?
Not too sure on its history. It was a gun that a buddy of mine's uncle had{Now passed} ,and another friend of mine had bought it from him. Eventually i talked him out of it, with the help of a little cash and Alot of Booze HAHA!!! Who say's drinkin's all bad!!! The story i was told is that it was customized OR custom ordered from a bigshot from Schrade cutlery.. The stock has the name Hornbeck on it down by lower tang, I do believe that is the stockmakers name because i have seen that before elsewhere. It has a really long LOP, the diamond is a nice touch and the figure of the wood is AWSOME. The action is the smoothest i have felt yet, you can almost "Think" this one into cycling. Buttery smooth.
Thanks for lookin and askin...
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Very nice, its like Weatherby made a lever gun.Heres my 66' 444
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