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If it were me I would bite the bullet and buy 20 to 40 rounds.  Shoot these and then reload the brass.  For most shooters this amount of brass will last them for the rest of their lives.  Last year I reloaded some 6.5 Creedmoor brass 22 times before I got the first split neck.  I do have an annealer and usually anneal after 6 firings.  Believe me the Creedmoor puts more strain on the components than our Winchesters do.

BRIAN BUSSEY said
Well I am really starting to like this forum and all of the like minded and knowledgeable people on it. I am starting to feel right at home on here. And yes, one of my favorite books on these old Winchesters is Mike Venturino’s “Shooting Lever Guns Of The Old West”. I have read my copy from cover to cover a couple of times and several of the chapters 4 and 5 times. The binding on my book is broken and the pages are starting to fall out now. But I am still reading parts of it repeatedly yet. Definitely a good source on reloading for all of these old, obsolete calibers. And a good source for the old Marlin Lever guns as well. I am also interested in them, but to a lesser extent than the Winchesters. 

  Something I have always wondered was with all of the Italian made replicas for all of the Winchester lever guns, except for the model 95, that are out there. But you never see a replica for any of the old Marlin lever guns ?? Apparently no buyer interest in replica Marlin Lever Guns ??  Apparently the Winchesters are way more in demand.  

Brian – I’m happy to hear you are feeling comfortable here.  It’s a great group of guys sharing knowledge, stories, experience, history, thoughts, research and so on the best brand of rifle ever made.  Once you’ve been here a while, you’ll pick up that many of us also have an attachment to Marlins.  I like the old Marlin rifles a lot, but like you, to a lesser extent than Winchesters.  My main Marlin collecting focus has been 1893’s, 1894’s and 1895’s.  The focus here is of course Winchester, but occasionally a Marlin will get mentioned and on rare occasion, a photo will slip in

If you read through this thread that I started, you’ll see how a photo with a Marlin in it was quietly slipped in:

https://winchestercollector.org/forum/winchester-rifles/who-likes-this-tang-sight-who-has-one/

On the topic of Marlins, one our longstanding members (and prolific Winchester collectors) was a founding member of the Marlin Collector’s Association – there’s a guy (Henry) who knows something about Marlins!

To respond to your question, why haven’t the old Marlins been the subject of replicas? All I can say is, it’s because they’re not Winchesters!

Steven,  If you insist on selling them, I would only ask about what the brass and primers may be worth.  Personally I would not buy them to shoot as is as I would not trust the source that loaded them back when.  Its way too easy for a firearm to fail with unknown loads.  As such I would be thinking in the terms of maybe  $20, and at that I personally have no interest at all.  There are very, very few who reload ammo that I would then shoot their offerings.  Salvaging bullets may bring that up somewhat as the flatpoints are scarce.   Tim