Marlin 795 MEGATHREAD Part Deuce

[rkt88edmo]

Cmon now. Telling someone not to post here is a bit much.

That being said, I agree the criticism of the mounts and trigger job reply. This is a home tinkering gun. If had asked about caps when discussing the mounts you may have gotten better answers.

[inbox485]

Hi all,

My 795 seems to be acting up. I first noticed it at Appleseed where it seemed to be misfiring occasionally. One of the instructors tried it and couldn't reproduce the issue and we thought it might be because the rifle was dirty. Also, there was no audible or felt reset of the trigger after releasing from firing, but I had it set up that way with the DIP trigger guard and made a mental note to adjust the screw when I got home.

I brought it home after Appleseed to clean the rifle and put a Boyd's stock on it. I also adjusted the over travel screw but noticed that at a certain point the trigger stopped before hitting the screw. If I removed the trigger guard from the rifle, the trigger traveled back fully.

Today when I went to shoot it, I was having problems where it wouldn't fire after I loaded it and hit the slide release. I found that if I wiggled the magazine back and forth, I could get it to fire. But by the end of the session even wiggling the magazine back and forth did not work. I had to manually remove the magazine and re-seat it before the weapon would fire. I did this for each round.

Any ideas on what might be happening? Should I just send in my rifle to Marlin and ask them to look at it? (I'd have to test it with the factory trigger and stock since I'd be sending it back with both.)

Despite my issues, I did get to shoot a couple rimfire challenge targets at 25 yards (resting my elbow on the bench, no rest per se). I know, I can't hit anything with my rifle. But considering before Appleseed I was having trouble hitting anywhere close to bull, I'm pretty happy.

Check the pin that holds the hammer spring rod to the hammer. I've had two for two that were purchased recently that weren't peened properly and walked until they pinned the sear reset causing a dead trigger. I peened the pins and haven't had issues since.

[CharlesV]

Chaos arent you taking this a bit too hard? I was relaying the gunsmith comments, nothing more. About the scope, last thing you said on the topic was that we agreed it was borderline and that I should try and see because thats what people do here. Now you say of course it wont fit and that i dont listen to you. Oh?

Quote: You need to use your best judgement on what will fit and then just pull the trigger and order them and see if it works.

I cant turn the hinge around because scope adjustments are handled there. If I turn it around it will simply hit the other side of the barrel when i make adjustments. And Id rather not lose the cover if possible because it provides the gripping surface to turn the very tight bezel.

[roushstage2]

The scope covers slip off When you slide the cover off, there is still plenty of grip on the bezel to turn it. Man up and grip a little harder if you have to, lol. You want the bezel to be tight, or you are going to have crap adjustments.

[Panchira!]

As a follow up to the issues I had with the n&i golden bullets, seemed all my issues were caused by carbon around the bolt face by the primer ring. I love shooting the marlin! My god its a fricken tack driver! I want a basic scope now! But it's to damn fun shooting through tech sights shooting dime/quarter sized holes! Dip products worked awesome, tech sights, and Boyd's stock make this one heck of a fun shooter! I really want to get a marlin .22 bolt action now!

[Lead Waster]

Lots of people love the Tech sights because they mimic US WW2 Battle Rifle sights. Because this is the style of shooting they teach at Appleseed many people recommend them for that reason.

I just shot the Appleseed with Marlin 795 equipped with tech sights. My conclusion is this

The Tech-Sights are great IF you have good vision. I shot more consistently with the tech sights BUT I could hardly see the small "simulated 400 yard" targets (about the size of a triangle made of 3 quarters, at 25 meters).

For silhouette and plinking, the tech sights are quite awesome.

I switched to a scope for the second day of Appleseed, which might have been a bad idea since I'd never used a scope before and the eye-relief and scope zero was all wrong. I shot way way worse with the scope than the tech sights BUT at least I could see the target. I will do the Appleseed again with a properly adjusted scope!

I don't regret the tech sight purchase, I will keep them to use for non-appleseed purposes (ie; teaching my kids to shoot on the 795 in about 6 years).

For target aquisition, iron sights can't be beat.

I would suggest tech sights for appleseed, if you can see a cluster of 3 or 4 quarters at 25 meters. For me, I couldn't tell if the front post was covering the target, or at 6 O'clock hold or anything. But then I have old eyes.

Oh, and the magazine release is a major bummer for appleseed. They have timed strings-of-fire where you must reload. I find that I have to reload my 795 with two hands, one hand to hold the rifle and keep the mag release/catch pushed up, and the other to pull out the magazine. Meanwhile, your support arm is slung up tight and you have to take your arm out of the sling to do this, or awkwardly pull the mag out. Just a thought...you should practice this before going to an appleseed.

Last but not least, if you have a Marlin 795 and you DON'T have a baby uplula mag-loader, you are doing yourself and your fingers a disservice. I think Marlin magazines are made of old razor blades!

[inbox485]

I just shot the Appleseed with Marlin 795 equipped with tech sights. My conclusion is this

The Tech-Sights are great IF you have good vision. I shot more consistently with the tech sights BUT I could hardly see the small "simulated 400 yard" targets (about the size of a triangle made of 3 quarters, at 25 meters).

For silhouette and plinking, the tech sights are quite awesome.

I switched to a scope for the second day of Appleseed, which might have been a bad idea since I'd never used a scope before and the eye-relief and scope zero was all wrong. I shot way way worse with the scope than the tech sights BUT at least I could see the target. I will do the Appleseed again with a properly adjusted scope!

I don't regret the tech sight purchase, I will keep them to use for non-appleseed purposes (ie; teaching my kids to shoot on the 795 in about 6 years).

For target aquisition, iron sights can't be beat.

I would suggest tech sights for appleseed, if you can see a cluster of 3 or 4 quarters at 25 meters. For me, I couldn't tell if the front post was covering the target, or at 6 O'clock hold or anything. But then I have old eyes.

Oh, and the magazine release is a major bummer for appleseed. They have timed strings-of-fire where you must reload. I find that I have to reload my 795 with two hands, one hand to hold the rifle and keep the mag release/catch pushed up, and the other to pull out the magazine. Meanwhile, your support arm is slung up tight and you have to take your arm out of the sling to do this, or awkwardly pull the mag out. Just a thought...you should practice this before going to an appleseed.

Last but not least, if you have a Marlin 795 and you DON'T have a baby uplula mag-loader, you are doing yourself and your fingers a disservice. I think Marlin magazines are made of old razor blades!

You have both now, so you can get that scope dialed in and do back to back comparison, but for me, even if my eyes are having a bad day, and all I can see of the target is a fuzzy area on paper slightly darker than the remaining paper, I can still make better hits with tech sights than with a scope. Also, practice the different positions, because I've found each position requires pretty different eye relief positions, so at best you get a compromise between three positions. And yes the mag release on the 795 sucks big time.

[LiveSideways]

New stock and and scope mount

[Lead Waster]

Yes, I marked the position of where the tech sight should sit, so swapping back to it should be easy.

I also ordered a Boyd's "Rimfire Hunter" stock, even though it costs about as much as the rifle itself! I've decided that this will be my "pet rifle" and one day my kids will own it.

I'm going to see if I can rig up something for the mag release. It seems to me if I could add something like a metal rocker that would push the mag release backwards, it would have the same effect as pushing the mag release upwards (it's just a bent piece of metal anyway). That way if you could squeeze the rocker towards the mag while pulling it out, it would be a one handed operation. But of course it the rocker interfered with the uplula ... forget it! LOL!


There MUST be a way to get that mag release to be one handed! (or at least drop the mags free...maybe a pound of lead attached to the bottom of the mag! Ha ha!)

[Lead Waster]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, near the end of the second day, I started getting more jamming and ftf on the 795. I had to take the gun off the line and run a bore snake through it, then shoot a bunch of break-free CLP into the action, and scrub it out with a paper towel wrapped around a chamber flag. (this was at about the 450 rounds fired count) For the next couple of strings of fire I didn't get anymore FTF. I hadn't cleaned it after the first day because my kids were having a sleep-over and they were in the living room (of my tiny house) and went to sleep about an hour after I got home, so it was lights off early. I barely had time to mount the scope (crappily) before having to pack it in for the night!

So keep your action clean, and bring something to clean it at the appleseed!

I think there was too much lube in the action and the powder fouling became "gunk" and caused the FTF.

[odslim]

Just a heads up on 795 magazines at big 5... (If there in stock).. Fortunately my local big 5 had two. I used this coupon to walk away with 2 magazines (last of there stock) for $31 out the door. Woohoo!

http://big5sportinggoods.com/specials/coupon_google.html

[slicknickns]

Hell yeah odslim. I've had mixed results at Big 5, and always succes at Turner's, The Stockade or Fowler's when it comes to Marlin mags

[odslim]

Yeah, Big big 5 is a really a big hit or big miss so to say, I was just there browsing, and looking at there gun rack it reminded me about my 795, at that exact time the sales person was right there so I asked about the 795 magazine, with a little bit of shuffling around in the drawers, she saw two suprisingly...So I busted out the coupon on my phone, we both read it to make sure it qualified and sure enough it did, but one thing I was concerned about the coupon was if it had to be printed out, she asked for my phone enlarged the barcode and scanned it...I was WOW'ed, gotta love technology...I skipped my *** outta there...now I have 5 magazines, can never hav enough...I just ordered a double sided rifle butt stock casing holder, Im gonna convert it to hold the magazines..

[slicknickns]

That gives me encouragement man. The bright side of Big 5 are the people who work there, it's very, very different from a gun shop.

The stoner, the cute girl in school who doesn't give a damn about guns or soccer cleats but makes her day when you flirt with her. The 35 year old manager watching his life slip away and is a total dick. The gun nut and redneck. The 65 year old Asian woman. The hipster and another stoner.

[Chaos47]

Not that it matters too much to us in CA but it appears that Promag is coming out with a new 25 round magazine for the 795!
Hopefully these are better then the Shooters Ridge / Champion ones!

Interesting that they made it out of Zytel, that alone makes it sound more durable then the other ones.

No mention of them on Promags website but they are shown on Academy Sports website.

http://www.academy.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_10051_696255_-1__?Ntt=Marlin+795+Magazines&Ntk=All

Looks interesting..