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Hi, this is my second marlin, (first being a model 60 ;D) and I have a few questions about it. First and foremost, the dang thing did not work out of the box. You had to slam the action to get it to function, was shooting win 300gr hollow points or whatever. This is my first lever gun so I was unsure if it was "okay". Then I bought some hornady LE 325grs. No matter how hard and quick you worked the action it would hang up. Could have probably hammered on the lever with a hammer and it wouldnt move (did not try this though 8) ). Upon inspection it seemed that when the cartridge was being pushed up the feed ramp (no idea what that piece is called) thingy that lifts the cartridge into position, it would go fine until the rim started sliding under the extractor. Here it would hang up and push the cartridge semi sideways into the chamber where the "neck" of the case (right behind were the bullet stops) and it would hang up there. I inspected my fired win brass and the brass looks like crap, its all knicked up and scratched up from this. I sent the rifle back and it took like a month and a half to get it back. Upon return of the rifle first thing i did was a function test, just cycling a magazine through the rifle. It all seemed to work well. I decided to disassemble the rifle to clean it, and when I did I found out how they "fixed" my rifle. Looks like some kid took a freaking grinder to my extractor. It looks so bad. I coulda did that and not had to wait so long on it to be returned. Now when I observe what happens when working the lever, when the cartridge goes to slide under the extractor, it jumps forward infront of the extractor and when it is pushed into the chamger the extractor then snaps over it. Is this how the extractor is supposed to work??? It seems like this would not be very good for the life of the extractor.
Sorry for the long winded post.
Sorry for the long winded post.