{"id":1894,"date":"2012-10-16T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2012-10-16T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T18:01:09","slug":"marlin-795-gets-an-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"Marlin 795 gets an upgrade!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had bought my Marlin 795 over a year ago with the intention of using it at a Project Appleseed<\/a> event.\u00a0 At the time, the only semi-auto detachable magazine rifle I had was my AR.\u00a0 While .223 is cheap compared to other “proper” rifle caliber rifles, I was still able to buy the Marlin ($80 new after rebate) plus the needed ammo (<$20 for a bulk box of .22) for less than the needed 500 rounds of .223 (roughly $250).\u00a0 I learned to shoot on a Marlin .22 lever action, both my dad and I own 336’s, and I already owned one of their .22 bolt guns, so I figured this was a no brainer.<\/p>\n

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Stock 795 with a cheap sling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve already upgraded the um… rudimentary sights that came on the 795 with Tech Sights<\/a>.\u00a0 This was a huge improvement over the cheap leaf spring sight that Marlins typically come with.\u00a0 After Appleseed, I’ve decided that I should order a scope for it.\u00a0 While the ideal is to get rifleman with iron sights, to quote Linoge<\/a> “if you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying.”\u00a0 After shooting his rifle on the last red coat target, I’m a believer in using glass.\u00a0 Oh, and Amazon happened to have his scope on sale<\/a>.\u00a0 So… that’s on the way….\u00a0 The Tech Sights may end up on the Papoose.<\/p>\n

The last thing that I’m doing to the 795 is replacing the stock.\u00a0 There’s not a whole lot of options out there for .22 rifles that aren’t 10\/22s.\u00a0 For a long time, I thought my only options were ATI’s Fiberforce<\/a> stock or Muzzlelite’s bullpup<\/a>.\u00a0 Both of which just look and feel cheap.\u00a0 Anyways, I’m a fan of wood stocks over plastic.<\/p>\n

Recently, I tripped over Boyds’ gun stocks<\/a>.\u00a0 They make some beautiful wooden stocks. including some “drop in” stocks for my 795!\u00a0 After debating with myself over which color to get, I decided to get an SS Evolution stock in nutmeg.<\/p>\n

It showed up last night, along with the sling mounts and some Acraglass bedding material.\u00a0 There was a grand total of two sheets of paper in the box.\u00a0 One was the purchase order.\u00a0 The other was an anti-lawyer warning sheet telling me not to work on loaded guns.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the Marlin 795 is pretty darn easy to disassemble.\u00a0 Remove two screws, and the trigger group drops out, at which point the receiver and barrel can be removed.\u00a0 The stock was, indeed, a simple drop in.\u00a0 No fitting was required.\u00a0 Probably the trickiest part was drilling the holes for the sling points, which is pretty simple.<\/p>\n

Here’s the end result:<\/p>\n

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New stock, GI sling, and Tech Sights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It looks a thousand times better than when it was in the original stock.\u00a0 It also feels a lot better.\u00a0 The pistol grip is just easier on the wrist than the semi-pistol grip, and there is a palm swell that fits my hand nicely.\u00a0 I can also get a much better cheek weld on the Boyds’ stock then I ever could on the old one.<\/p>\n

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It’s sooo preeeeetty… And yes. I did drill the holes on my kitchen counter. Naienko didn’t yell at me too much.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s not all good though.\u00a0 The problem with laminated wood over plastic is that you can make plastic thinner without loosing too much rigidity.\u00a0 This is obvious around the receiver.\u00a0 The plastic stock was almost flush at the side, where the wood stock sticks out a good bit.\u00a0 It sticks out to the point that I’m concerned about clearance for my fingers to manipulated the bolt after mounting a scope on it.\u00a0 It also hides the bolt release a good bit.\u00a0 It was this giant lever sticking out for all to see, and now it’s barely sticking out when the bolt is held back.\u00a0 This could be an issue, since the 795 requires you to hit it instead of manually cycling the bolt.\u00a0 The last bit is that I wish I was able to move the front sling mount just a bit further out, but that’s the limitation of this style of free-floating design.<\/p>\n

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Not a whole lot of space to grab the bolt from underneath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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yes, I can grab the bolt release with my thumb, but there not a whole lot of extra room there…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Obviously, the big question is “how does it shoot?”\u00a0 Unfortunately, I’m stuck at work on this beautify sunny day and can’t tell you.\u00a0 I can tell you that it feels rock solid and I’m glad I plopped down the $100 to get the new stock.\u00a0 I haven’t done the bedding yet, and I debating whether I will or not.<\/p>\n

There’s also the nice thing of knowing that I’ve currently invested roughly $250 on this thing, which is about what I see bare bone stock 10\/22s being sold for around here, if not more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had bought my Marlin 795 over a year ago with the intention of using it at a Project Appleseed event.\u00a0 At the time, the only semi-auto detachable magazine rifle I had was my AR.\u00a0 While .223 is cheap compared to other “proper” rifle caliber rifles, I was still able to buy the Marlin ($80 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}