I’m a 10mm fan, but I won’t be running out to buy one of these.
If I run across a deal later I imagine I’d bite. (I guess that applies to most guns.)
I have nothing against it, but I have many others I’d spend that amount of money on first.
The advantage I might see over the usual suspect calibers in the Marlin 1894 is magazine capacity. You should be able to get at least a couple more rounds in the tube. Maybe more .40 S&Ws if it will handle them.
Too bad the specs say 10 rounds. Is it plugged or is that truly it? I wonder what it really holds with the plug removed, if it has one.
Let me do some cipherin’…
Looking it up, I see the Marlin 1894 Trapper in .357 Mag holds eight rounds. I didn’t realize it was down to only eight. I guess 10 rounds of 10mm is a capacity increase, and a pretty good one.
Oh well, I’m gonna crunch some numbers anyway.
Eight rounds at 1.590” max OAL equals 12.72” (minimum) of magazine space to work with.
The max OAL of 10mm is 1.260”. That tells me you should be able to fit… aw crap…10 rounds in it.
It looks to me like the listed 10 rounds is truly the limit. With a 16” barrel, getting almost 13” of useable magazine tube is probably doing pretty well.
While I have the calculator warmed up, I’ll check the .40 S&W.
The .40’s max OAL is 1.235. Uh-oh, it’s not much shorter than the 10.
Alright, so 12.72” of magazine tube, divided by 1.235 equals 10.299.
No gain. Loading .40 in it should get you the same 10 round capacity.
Of course there are some lost numbers in here. The useable tube length is almost certainly more than 12.72”. I just went by what we know- that it must have at least that much to hold eight .357s.
But to hold an 11th 10mm, it would have to have 13.86” of useable length. I doubt it has that, but it’s possible. And if it did, big deal.
The things I think about at 3:20am.
If I run across a deal later I imagine I’d bite. (I guess that applies to most guns.)
I have nothing against it, but I have many others I’d spend that amount of money on first.
The advantage I might see over the usual suspect calibers in the Marlin 1894 is magazine capacity. You should be able to get at least a couple more rounds in the tube. Maybe more .40 S&Ws if it will handle them.
Too bad the specs say 10 rounds. Is it plugged or is that truly it? I wonder what it really holds with the plug removed, if it has one.
Let me do some cipherin’…
Looking it up, I see the Marlin 1894 Trapper in .357 Mag holds eight rounds. I didn’t realize it was down to only eight. I guess 10 rounds of 10mm is a capacity increase, and a pretty good one.
Oh well, I’m gonna crunch some numbers anyway.
Eight rounds at 1.590” max OAL equals 12.72” (minimum) of magazine space to work with.
The max OAL of 10mm is 1.260”. That tells me you should be able to fit… aw crap…10 rounds in it.
It looks to me like the listed 10 rounds is truly the limit. With a 16” barrel, getting almost 13” of useable magazine tube is probably doing pretty well.
While I have the calculator warmed up, I’ll check the .40 S&W.
The .40’s max OAL is 1.235. Uh-oh, it’s not much shorter than the 10.
Alright, so 12.72” of magazine tube, divided by 1.235 equals 10.299.
No gain. Loading .40 in it should get you the same 10 round capacity.
Of course there are some lost numbers in here. The useable tube length is almost certainly more than 12.72”. I just went by what we know- that it must have at least that much to hold eight .357s.
But to hold an 11th 10mm, it would have to have 13.86” of useable length. I doubt it has that, but it’s possible. And if it did, big deal.
The things I think about at 3:20am.
