MARLIN RIDES AGAIN
The standard gun review usually begins with some history and then transitions to explanations about how the gun works, its features and how it performed. This isn’t a standard gun review because the gun I’m reviewing isn’t really a new gun. Well, that’s only partly true. In some ways it is a new gun, and in some ways it’s not. What’s without question is that this gun is the best shooting lever-action rifle of any brand, style or design, I’ve ever fired.
“In some ways it’s a new gun, and in some ways it’s not. What’s without question is that this gun is the best shooting lever-action rifle of any brand, style or design, I’ve ever fired.”
I received my sample of the Ruger-owned Marlin 1895 SBL about a month before deer season last year. It was one of the first made, and I was asked to shoot it and provide feedback. My intention was to take it deer hunting here in West Virginia. I immediately took the riflescope off my 2009 1895 SBL—a discounted Leupold Model VX-2 IER 1.5-4x28mm—and installed it on
