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I recently picked up this Marlin 7000t from another Calgunner. It is basically a Marlin 795 with a bull barrel and an adjustable "Red, White, and Blue" laminated stock. I've owned a Marlin 795 for over a decade, mainly to use as a trainer for new shooters. It's a fairly good shooter (about 3 MOA) and very reliable with bulk ammo.
But one thing I always disliked about it was the really cheap plastic stock. Yes, with the exception of the barrel, everything about the 795 feels cheap but the stock was the worst IMHO. Yes, I could have tried to track down a replacement stock, but I don't really want to dress it up considering its role as a training rifle.
So anyways when the opportunity to pick up the 7000t came up, I decided to go for it. They were made from around 2000 to 2002 or so and mine has a 2001 production date. It comes from the factory sans sights and a previous owner put a BSA fixed 4x scope on it.
I was able to take it out to the range yesterday and run 300 rounds of CCI pink poly-coated "Clean 22" ammo out of it with no failures whatsoever. The scope was not clear and it needed 8 clicks of left windage to get on target at 50 yards, but it held up just fine. Then I just shot at my 22lr dueling tree for the rest of the morning.
Despite being nearly 2 full decades old, the 7000t had not been shot much. I got it from the second owner, who never shot it and he told me the first owner only put a couple hundred rounds thru it. A peek inside the action leds me to believe that. The gun looks little used. But I'll fix that
But one thing I always disliked about it was the really cheap plastic stock. Yes, with the exception of the barrel, everything about the 795 feels cheap but the stock was the worst IMHO. Yes, I could have tried to track down a replacement stock, but I don't really want to dress it up considering its role as a training rifle.
So anyways when the opportunity to pick up the 7000t came up, I decided to go for it. They were made from around 2000 to 2002 or so and mine has a 2001 production date. It comes from the factory sans sights and a previous owner put a BSA fixed 4x scope on it.
I was able to take it out to the range yesterday and run 300 rounds of CCI pink poly-coated "Clean 22" ammo out of it with no failures whatsoever. The scope was not clear and it needed 8 clicks of left windage to get on target at 50 yards, but it held up just fine. Then I just shot at my 22lr dueling tree for the rest of the morning.
Despite being nearly 2 full decades old, the 7000t had not been shot much. I got it from the second owner, who never shot it and he told me the first owner only put a couple hundred rounds thru it. A peek inside the action leds me to believe that. The gun looks little used. But I'll fix that
Could I do it "all day long?" Maybe not, but still pretty cool!
Bob B. 
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