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My wife was a sweety last Father's Day and gave me a used Marlin 336RC in 35 Rem that I had been looking at for some time. The gun was made in 1965 and is in good to excellent condition.
Last week was the first time that I was able to get this particular gun out. I had both factory and handloaded rounds with me to test out the gun. First shot out of a clean barrel left a perfectly round hole in the target at 25 yd's. Shots two and three both went through nearly fully sideways. Hmm. So I cleaned out the barrel quickly and loaded in a handload using a Rem 200gr RN. First shot was again perfect. The next four went through in varying degrees of yaw.
The rifling from breach to muzzle is sharp and clean. The crown was clean. My gunsmith and I could find nothing to blame. In an effort we re-crowned the muzzle, but still had the same pre-crowning results. The slugged bore measures .3574.
This unfortunate problem may go a ways to explain the overall condition of the rifle. Any comments or thoughts that anyone might want to throw out are welcome. Thanks!
Last week was the first time that I was able to get this particular gun out. I had both factory and handloaded rounds with me to test out the gun. First shot out of a clean barrel left a perfectly round hole in the target at 25 yd's. Shots two and three both went through nearly fully sideways. Hmm. So I cleaned out the barrel quickly and loaded in a handload using a Rem 200gr RN. First shot was again perfect. The next four went through in varying degrees of yaw.
The rifling from breach to muzzle is sharp and clean. The crown was clean. My gunsmith and I could find nothing to blame. In an effort we re-crowned the muzzle, but still had the same pre-crowning results. The slugged bore measures .3574.
This unfortunate problem may go a ways to explain the overall condition of the rifle. Any comments or thoughts that anyone might want to throw out are welcome. Thanks!