I also wish Lyman had built a sight for the Angle Eject Winchesters. The new Williams sight for the Marlins interferes with your thumb. I wish Marlin had not decided to stop drilling their rifles for a side mounted receiver sight. I agree we should be thankful that Marbles, Lyman, Williams and others still make sights. If you remember the old Marlin talk forum where passions sometimes became heated you know the pot is still simmering 100 years later! At this time there was also a fight over whether the pump shotgun was a sportsman’s weapon and then there were accusations that Peter’s shells wouldn’t extract from a Winchester Model 12 and Peters pulled their advertising, which caused the subscribers to write in with tales of success and failure with Peters shells… The fight gradually became: “My Marlin is better than your Winchester.” It ended up with John Marlin releasing a book titled: “The Original Game Hog” which slandered Shields. Then the inevitable fights over whether the 32 Winchester special was a better killer than the 32-40 or the 30-30. Army and the Newton and Ross cartridges - and then their rifles.
Then the big bore and small bore fans started a fight over killing power: The. It seems to have started about the time of the “Game hog” fights and the coming of game bag limits and seasons.
This is actually a very civil discussion compared to some!īetween 1900 and about 1908 there was quite a fight in the magazine shooting columns between Marlin and Winchester fans. Sorry, I didn’t mean to make it sound like that.