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Marlin Model 1894

History of the 1894 Marlin Model

The Marlin Firearms Company entered the firearms market in 1870 and rose to fame by making a wide range of useful revolvers, compact Dellingers, shotguns and rifles. In 1894, their Model 1894 carbine came out, which used a lever system that would take a while to provide repeat-fire capability when semi-automatic and automatic rifles were widely accepted.

The first attempt at a lever-action pistol came from the Model 1881, a design that was gradually developed empirically to produce the Model 1894 as an improvement on all of this work for the new millennium.

Model 1894 has a traditional structural arrangement with a sloping solid wood stock at the rear (this also forms the pistol grip), a wooden front baffle below the rifle body and a shortened with a tube below barrel to maintain the overall length of the weapon being tested. The receiver is plate-side and houses the inner working parts of the weapon, while the hammer is visible above it behind and the trigger is fixed in the usual way under the rectangular frame.

The trigger area includes the lever mechanism with large, elongated grooves for the guide fingers of the firing hand. This mechanism proved to be the "heart and soul" of each lever-action bolt-action design - a downward motion ejects a spent cartridge from the firing chamber while inserting a new one from the tubular magazine below.

Depending on the chamber (which varies widely over the life of the gun), the Model 1894 can fire 6 to 10 rounds from the spring-loaded barrel.

Total weight is in the 6 lb range and lengths vary from 36" to 40". The available length of the barrel is also variable - between 18.5 and 22 inches, depending on the model. Including room. Winchester, 32-20. 38 Special, .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum etc.

Aiming is via an adjustable rear and tilted front iron assembly.

Surprisingly, the Model 1894 has never ceased production since its introduction in 1894. However, the rights to it were sold to Remington Arms in 2008, and the guns have been produced under this famous brand ever since. The original guns came from Marlin Firearms in North Haven, Connecticut.

Its design is attributed to John Mahlon Marlin.