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Offline Bigboar

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Marlin 50 Alaskan conversion?
« on: April 24, 2013, 06:06:36 AM »
I am toying with the idea of doing a 50 Alaskan on my Marlin.  Has anyone had any experience with this and willing to share their opinions?


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Offline Lloyd Smale

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Re: Marlin 50 Alaskan conversion?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2013, 12:20:43 AM »
what kind of opinions are you looking for?
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Re: Marlin 50 Alaskan conversion?
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2013, 12:40:16 AM »
Yes Bigbore,

I've had two 50alaskans built on marlins. Wild West guns did the first, a copilot takedown in hard chrome finish. Jim West is a pain to work with but the gun came out completely reliable and was accurate. He would be my choice.

The second was built by Noneman, in Missouri. Nice guy and easy to work with but the finished gun had one problem after another. It was never 100% reliable. I did loan that one to a friend that was going to Africa on a elephant cull hunt. He killed a cow elephant with it. I would not use Noneman again.

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Re: Marlin 50 Alaskan conversion?
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2013, 02:26:20 AM »
I totaly agree with the nonaman recomendation. Mine was troublesome and the other 3 ive handled and shot built by him were all unreliable feeding guns. Mine was a fairly easy fix that i figured out on my own but its something that should have never left his shop in that condition. Two of the others needed minor gunsmithing work to get right and my best friends needed a trip to ben forkin and about 600 bucks in work to get right.  If i had to do it again the first thing i would do is build it on a winchester 86 not a marlin and would proably ship it to ben forkin if hed do a complete conversion. I heard turnbulls shop is doing them too and i cant imagine anything comming out of there that wasnt top shelf.
Quote from: pastorp on April 25, 2013, 12:40:16 AM
Yes Bigbore,

I've had two 50alaskans built on marlins. Wild West guns did the first, a copilot takedown in hard chrome finish. Jim West is a pain to work with but the gun came out completely reliable and was accurate. He would be my choice.

The second was built by Noneman, in Missouri. Nice guy and easy to work with but the finished gun had one problem after another. It was never 100% reliable. I did loan that one to a friend that was going to Africa on a elephant cull hunt. He killed a cow elephant with it. I would not use Noneman again.

Regards,
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