It is cheaper, you can abuse them with little consequence, and quite a few younger folk do not have the funds/desire for a quality wood stocked rifle.



A couple recent additions.......



Pre-enjoyed Colt Sauer in 300 Win Mag.



Pre-enjoyed J. Sipp Custom in 221 Fireball


ya!

GWB

Find an Atwoods store and check out their ammo prices & the $'s on the couple dozen shooters usually on the rack. I shop the one in Jacksonville whenever I'm in town. Last time I looked they had Norma ammo in several calibers and 300Wmg's at way cheaper than anywhere else I know of back when I was shopping for another 300wmg after I did a dumb arsed thing and sold a unfired Wby SS 300 for waaaay too cheap. I also bought some great bore & chamber cleaner and a caliber appropriate brush I've never seen anywhere else, that I use to shoot the broke ejector Marlin 270 with . Spray some of this pink stuff into the chamber before you load the next round and you only have to barely tap the spent round with a cleaning rod or sometimes you can just bump the buttpad with the muzzle standing upright to get the fired round to drop out by itself when you pull the bolt all the way out. Never seen this pink stuff anywhere else either.

Re: the Marlin Model 7 STAINLESS STEEL ...A POX ON RUGER FOR PUTTING THIS POORLY DESIGNED EJECTOR ON A GREAT SHOOTING RIFLE in a Marlin Model 7. Oh by the way the chatter on some other sources sez Ruger is going to come out with the pirated designed LEVER ACTION rifles that Marlin had built for years. You can only hope Ruger doesn't do to the Lever action shooters what they did to the Model 7.
My Marlin Model 39 D 22 rimfire lever action gun is still shooting as well as it did when I found a unopened case of them hidden on a 4 story high steel rack somebody was trying to steal when we were closing the Schoellkopf warehouse in Carrollton in umm '79 I think it was, and was a given one of them as a reward.
Ron

Beautiful rifles!

The missive above is a reflection of the contractor in Kentucky who is ID'd on the side of my barrel, that Ruger used to build my Marlin Model 7, and Ruger's lack of adequate engineering in specifying how the extractor was to be built out of normal steel material instead of pot metal. Everything else about the gun's parts fit and the workmanship is comparable to a Ruger or any other common US made rifle ...and it shoots little bitty groups if I am paying attention, with really old WW Ammo that I was using to break in the barrel when all the problems started and the extractor fell out of the chamber when I opened the bolt, to load another round for the next shot.

OTOH If I could find a Savage extractor I'm told that with some careful, judicious file work the Savage STEEL extractor will fit fine and last as normal ... but I should buy several of them if I expect to keep and use the Model 7 as I would any other rifle the rest of my life, but there are no Savage extractors to be found that I could find for almost the last year or so as they are all being used for other brands of rifles ...like my Marlin Model 7. It's possible in a couple years this will all resolve itself ....otherwise I've got a very expensive Stainless Steel and black composite canoe paddle.

OBTW the name of the pink bore cleaner at Atwoods is "Pro-Shot Products 1 Step Gun Cleaner & lubricant CLP" . "Cleans, Lubricates, & Protects in One Easy Step". The stuff works best with a correct sized for caliber metal chamber brush, and wiped clean the usual way you'd treat the bore of the barrel . You will be surprised at the amount of black soot that will come out of your chamber. I was , in a gun that had only been fired 10-15 times from Brand New....and looked exactly as new when I got thru.
Ron

Jeez Louise !!! what magnificent piece of wood & workmanship in THAT rifle....I'll show this picture to my wife as a reminder that Santa Clause is coming soon...and pray she gets the dumb joke ....
Ron

I spent my first couple of years of high school in Weatherford and you could walk into the Gibsons and they had a barrel full of SKSs that could be had for $99 a piece