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Marlin 336 s.c. dob?

MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,043 ✭✭✭✭

Picked this up today, .30/30. ser. # JL 9424. pre microgroove.

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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,019 ✭✭✭✭

    Oct. 1968


    For compete information see William S. Brophy, Marlin Firearms, especially pages 628-631

  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,043 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2023

    thanks gh, I thought it would have been earlier with the non-micro grove rifling. I don't have Brophy's book.


    also; when did 'Marlin' sell out to Remington?

  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,019 ✭✭✭✭

    2007 BOUGHT but still manufactured until 2009- 10 depends on how you get the info. Parts guns in 2010 and suspect to quality is what I read on the forum.

  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,019 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2023

    Ok doing some research , the double although pre micro looks like J equates to 1952 without micro barrel. L would be month. Several references have different dates on changes. My apologies-


    Rather than use up another post, some info states 1955 some states 1956- when micro started. And another sight has it 54- but not in production.

    Also the two digit prefix is supposed to be on the 60's rifles with micro. But yours is earlier so according to the J equates to 1952. Yes, lots of "info" to be gleaned/ Anyway, you have a time tested rifle that is one of the best levers built imo. I kind of collected them some decades ago and then moved on to something else and all of them were very well built rifles.

  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,043 ✭✭✭✭

    "My apologies-"...........none needed, thanks for the info. I thought the 'micro grove' rifling came in the early 1950's. I did check on-line and Marlin info is very confusing.

  • yonsonyonson Member Posts: 946 ✭✭✭

    Marlin intro'd Microgroove on .22s in July 1953; early 1956 in all centerfires (per Leverguns article by Glen Fryxell using historical data from Brophy's book).

  • yonsonyonson Member Posts: 946 ✭✭✭

    My 336 in 35 Rem. is H4796 (1951), seems to jibe with 1952 as your mfg. date. Also have one in 30-30 ca. 1980, my go-to deer gun.

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