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Offline 2DARK2C

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my 336RC straight stock
« on: December 29, 2008, 05:20:19 PM »
i traded for this well worn carbine from my wife's uncle. at the time the stock was broken, story goes that he broke it over some fellas head years ago. after trying my hand at carving a replacement and failing, i found an 80% complete stock on line. my wife's uncle helped me get it where it is. we broke it in nearly the same spot & repaired it,but i would still like to find some better wood.





it's old and ugly, but it means a lot to me. it's one of the few sentimental guns i own.

 how rare is a straight stock marlin & anyone know where i could score an original stock set for it?
does rc stand for ranch carbine?

great site by the way, loads of good info here!

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Re: my 336RC straight stock
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2008, 03:39:53 AM »
I have one just like that one, and know of a couple of others, all with 20 inch barrels.  Yours looks shorter.  On another website, straightgripped Marlins are often described as "Texans".  I wonder, though--since every "Texan" depicted in submitted photos seems to have a lever which is not rounded like yours, mine, and others that I have seen, but is squared off at the back.  Having grown up in Vermont (before the gentrified, liberal flatlanders overran the place) leverguns were the norm for the locals who you'd see out there deer hunting.  Winchesters and Marlins were the most common.  Until I moved to Northern Vermont in the Mid-80's I had never seen one configured quite like the one in your picture, or the one I bought (used), or the well-worn ones owned by a couple of locals up here.  I had seen the some of the "Texan" styled ones before, but not many. The common Marlins had pistol grips and big, fat, ugly fore-ends. 

One of the stocks that are cut for the current straight-grip Marlins ought to work--you'd need to find one that doesn't have that checkering that Marlin likes to uglify their latest models with.  Try Precision or Treebone.  Both have websites and would be a good place to start.

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Re: my 336RC straight stock
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2008, 05:00:26 AM »

  Marlin is currently making and selling .444 Marlins with a straight grip.  The .444 Marlin receivers are the same external dimensions as the .336 receivers, so I think that a buttstock from one of the new .444s would fit your rifle.

   Get a Brownells catalog, look in the back under the replacement parts etc. for Marlins, and see if they have a replacement straight grip stock for the .444 Marlin.

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Re: my 336RC straight stock
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2008, 05:59:48 AM »
RC = Regular Carbine (20"bbl, full-length mag, PG stock) Some early, round-lever, straight-gripped Texans were so marked.

SC = Sporting Carbine ( 20" bbl, 2/3 mag, PG stock)

A = Rifle (24" bbl, 2/3 mag, PG stock)
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Re: my 336RC straight stock
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2008, 08:16:22 AM »
iVE GOT A 1957 336 IN 35 REM. HAS A STRAIGHT GRIP ITS OLD AND UGLY ,BUT SHOOTS STRAIGHT AND TRUE.
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Re: my 336RC straight stock
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2008, 01:19:17 PM »
thanks for the info.

my barrel is 16 1/4" and as far as i know has always been. i think my wifes uncle told me he bought it new in '64. the serial # is   Y 39xx. my blue book lists "Y" as '64.

since 336RC is supposed to be 20", do you think mine was chopped?

i see marlin made a "marauder carbine" '63-'64 with 161/4" barrels, it also says "be careful of re-barreled examples of this model"

looks like the 336TS were the texan model ,18", squared lever,'84-'87 on those.

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Re: my 336RC straight stock
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2008, 03:49:49 PM »
[my barrel is 16 1/4"]

You have a Marauder, usually unmarked as such - examples of which, in excellent and original condition will bring upwards of $750.
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