Hence hunting. I'm kicking myself in the ass for not pick up one I saw a while back, the dude a 44 mag and beautiful 357 w/ blondish wood both w/o the safety.
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Does a safety really matter
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I have a 1894 in 45 Colt and a 1895 Guide Gun and both were bought new in the past 3 years. The wood to metal fit on both is good and neither has ever had a malfunction. The actions were not bad out of the box, but I smoothed them both up and they now function very smooth. The 95 has a set of Skinner peep sights on it and the 94 will get a set as well. Both also have the dummy screw to remove the crossbolt safety. It is pretty well known that there were major issues when Remmingtion took over, but I think they have more or less worked out most of the issues. I would still want to handle one in person before buying.
I saw somewhere that Ruger is upgrading their NC facility to start building the Marlin product line there. Supposed to be up and running mid 2021.
I have almost a dozen Marlin lever guns. To me, it matters because only 2 of them have the safeties and the rest are all older rifles. I have done as many have and simply deleted the safeties and added a "screw" to fill the hole so that all of my rifles operate the same. I have a Marlin Cowboy and one of the little, rare, .357 16", ported carbines that have the safety- neither was ever made without it and they are too cool not to own.....
Yea, I don't like the idea that a safety could get applied and the gun function perfectly normally right up until I pull the trigger and then I get a click. Deleting them just makes sense, it's a $15 part and takes 20 minutes. We got by for 150 years with safeties on lever guns, never saw the need.