Looking to buy first rifle: 10/22 v. Marlin 795 v. lever actions?

[freethemouse]

It's mainly local shops on their instead of national chain stores. The chain stores have websites anyways.

YEah, but the websites for Turners and Big5 don't tell me diddly-squat.

EDIT: Other than their weekly sales, that is.

[Grey1one]

The last couple of Big 5 ads I saw had the 795 around $170.00, the cheap days are gone for some reason.


Maybe too many people found out about them and tightened the supply.

[freethemouse]

The Gungenie site gives me a quote of ~$165 at a nearby shop. The site seems to calculate "fees" though I'm not 100% what this entails. Does anybody know if that's the OTD price?

[vice4uman]

Go with the Ruger 10/22! I have owned a few 10/22s and a few Marlins. The 10/22 may cost a little bit more but it is worth it. The Marlin is very accurate but it has tight clearance in its' action. Therefore, after a few hundred rounds it has a tendency to fail to feed due to the acumilation of dirt and spent gas in the action. The 10/22 on the other hand, is the AK of the rimfire auto loader world. It has a bigger bolt assembly, its' action has bigger clearance so it has better tolerance to dirt and spent gas. I rarely have any problem with the 10/22.

[Readytoroll]

I love the 10/22, whatever floats your boat though

[norcal530]

Whatever you choose, dont get the 795. that is a total pile. The one I had stove piped all the time. You had to shoot it and hold the mag in a certain position or else it would stove pipe or not go into battery. I tried different mags and virtually every brand of ammo. Plus stripping it and cleaning it was the worst. I got a ruger 10/22 and it has been the best. Could never go back.

[freethemouse]

Whatever you choose, dont get the 795. that is a total pile. The one I had stove piped all the time. You had to shoot it and hold the mag in a certain position or else it would stove pipe or not go into battery. I tried different mags and virtually every brand of ammo. Plus stripping it and cleaning it was the worst. I got a ruger 10/22 and it has been the best. Could never go back.

This is the first I've heard anyone talk about the 795 this way. In fact, I've never heard anyone say that it's less reliable than the 10/22. Are you sure you didn't just get a lemon? Did you look into getting it repaired?

[Vacaville]

Never had a stove pipe in my 795. Something's wrong with your rifle dude.

[Chaos47]

Strange first post...

Never had any failure of any kind from my 795, no FTF, no FTE, no stove pipes etc
It's gone bang every time for over 4k rounds in a bit over a year now.

Sounds like something was wrong with one of the following, recoil spring / guide, buffer, magazine well.

Did you sell it?
If you where in SoCal I would be happy to look over it and see if I can figure it out but guessing from your name your not...

[Merc1138]

Whatever you choose, dont get the 795. that is a total pile. The one I had stove piped all the time. You had to shoot it and hold the mag in a certain position or else it would stove pipe or not go into battery. I tried different mags and virtually every brand of ammo. Plus stripping it and cleaning it was the worst. I got a ruger 10/22 and it has been the best. Could never go back.

Were you using the magazine as a monopod or something? It's not a VFG either. The only failures to fire I've ever had in the 795, were with the same ammo that I had the same problem with in a 10/22. Never seen a failure to feed or failure to extract/eject in the 795, nor have I ever seen anyone reporting any of the issues you've described. If they truly are as crappy as you say they are, there must be thousands of complaints considering how many they've sold over the years.

[wchutt]

To each their own...10/22 with a $35.00 Volquartsen hammer.
Shoot it for 5 or 10 years and you will have a great base to play with when you have the funds.

[Bangzoom]

i own several kinds but my "Go to 22" is the 10/22

[roushstage2]

Whatever you choose, dont get the 795. that is a total pile. The one I had stove piped all the time. You had to shoot it and hold the mag in a certain position or else it would stove pipe or not go into battery. I tried different mags and virtually every brand of ammo. Plus stripping it and cleaning it was the worst. I got a ruger 10/22 and it has been the best. Could never go back.

Only time I've had that problem was when I tried Remington Golden Bullet ammo in it...and it did the same thing on all of my .22 semi-auto rifles, including the 10/22.

[norcal530]

Was just sharing my experience with the 795. Got rid of it 7 yrs ago. Must have got a lemon from the sounds of things. I just figured it was because it was the cheapest semi auto .22 rifle. I bought it for 99$ when I was in the 7th grade. It was accurate however. Numerous grounds squirrels and woodpeckers would testify to that. Also it was quite compact and handy, packing it around for miles in the woods was never a problem.