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Must be the week for home invasions in New Jersey - http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen/Two_suspects_identified_in_Englewood_Cliffs_home_invasion.html

SK - My response was to this comment you made; "While the factory ammo doesn't tap the full potential of the Five-seveN, it has proven to be more than enough to take down humans as well as medium-sized game." I said it is not taking the hunting world by storm. It won't. Those people who "are surprised by the damage a little round like the 5.7 inflicts on animals it is not supposed to be able to take down" have limited knowledge killing game. YouTube and various firearm forums have spawned countless experts. Astute folks know what the simple yet efficient .22LR can do. But that's a poor choice as well. The 5.7x28 is a boutique cartridge, designed for the boutique group of arms it was designed for. It has its place, but not for medium game. It's a capable varmint round if you can find a chambering for it in something other than an FN-product. Despite its ballyhooed penetration capabilities on gelatin, its 40 gr bullet would be a poor choice for raking shots on quartering animals above 100 lbs. If Col. Charles Askins were alive today and still writing about cartridges and rifles, he would pen the 5.7x28 as another flash in the pan. The debate will always rage on between the Cult of High Velocity and folks from the school of Big-Bullet Frontal Area coupled with High Sectional Density. It's nothing new, it's been going on for a century now.

The diminutive 5.7x28 is no "medium game" round as one poster suggests. (Medium game is defined as 4-legged critters up to 350 lbs., with a minimum of 1,000 ft. lbs. on energy necessary for a humane and quick kill.) Any cartridge can be deployed with success under the right circumstances, based on an indivudual's highly developed skill level and sometimes with intentional/unintentional controlled circumstances. However, medium game doesn't shoot back, hence the trepidation by the LE commentators regarding this round. The .22 Hornet, .222 Rem., 222 Rem. Mag., .223, .22 HighPower have been around decades longer than the 5.7x28, have better energy numbers than the newer round, yet none of them have taken the hunting world's medium game category by storm. It would be wishful thinking to assume that the new 5.7x28 would rise above them. All these cartridges dance in the varmint realm, the same place the 5.7x28 belongs. And if the 5.7x28 was the panacea for all medium game animals, why are there so few commercial chamberings in modern rifles today? Didn't Savage just drop the chambering last year? Sorry, it's not taking the hunting world by storm anytime soon.

The lever makes contact in only six areas: the trigger safety block, the locking bolt, the plunger, the finger lever screw, the carrier, and the bolt. (There is a raceway milled inside the receiver to provide clearance for the finger lever's tip so it moves freely while manipulating the bolt.) Other than contact points, nothing should be rubbing. You do have a conundrum. Ship your Remlin back to Remington and have them exorcise the gremlins from that fine rifle.

Yep. That's an Auto-5 Phil is holding in the above photo.

They've been spokesmen for and promoted Browning, Benelli and now Mossberg products. (Watch Remington grab them just in time to coincide with their 200th anniversary.)

At seven yards, buckshot will pattern anywhere from a 6" to 9" spread, depending on load, choke, etc. At 6', the pattern could be 2", so it is very easy to miss your target unless you are familiar with your gun and sights.

I'm all for bringing back chain gangs and breaking rocks in the hot sun. A bit of levity -

I hope my posts weren't taken as offensive. Just bringing some clarity to the question. There was a time in my life I knew nothing, so no question is stupid. By the grace of God I've learned a thing or two over the years.

The majority of shotguns today, much like those at the turn of the century more than a hundred years ago, are "sighted in" to converge the smoothbore's pattern to hit point of aim at 40 yds. That's the standard. You will read about two terms with firearms. POI (point of impact) and POA (point of aim.) POI is where your pattern or slug goes in relation to where you aimed (POA.) The gun's characteristics and build precision dictates how close those two converge with something as rudimentary as a single bead. Your results may vary, for every gun is an individual as well as you the shooter (with a shotgun and single bead front sight, your eye is the rear sight for argument's sake,) but that is the general rule of thumb. So, it's imperative that you get some range time to familiarize yourself with your new scattergun. PS - As for 00 buckshot, based on the angle it's fired at (more than 20 degrees,) the shot charge can travel about 800 yds. or more. Slugs will travel twice that distance with a similar hold trajectory.

The proper terminology is pattern density at a given ("longer") distance will be the result of how much choke constriction is at the muzzle. (And there are other variables besides choke that also affect pattern density. Forcing cone, bore diameter, condition of bore, amount of shot, shot size, length of parallel in choke all have contributing factors.)

Spot on. Sadly, we all know this.

The .223 has the honor of being one of the most controversial as well as most loved/hated round in America. Many states still deem the .223 adequate, in fact, New York and Pennsylvania cite "any" centerfire caliber adequate for big game. "Big game" crosses many boundaries in those states; deer and bear in New York, and deer, bear and elk in Pennsylvania. I've been to deer camps hunting in both states and the .223 is not at the top of anyone's list as a game-getter. Where would you draw the line and at what species with the use of the .223? Ingalik's hunt caribou, muskox and moose up north in Alaska and think nothing of shooting them with a .223. Used for food gathering, in a situation that means the difference between sustaining oneself or starving, they do quite well with the tiny round. Some states still require a minimum of .23 caliber, others require .24. Some people think the .243 Win. isn't adequate for whitetail, yet that round has as much energy at 100 yds. as the .223 has at the muzzle. My friend uses his .223 in New York each year, and is successful with it on deer. He uses the Barnes bullet, which expands beautifully and holds together. But, I'll note that he only uses his AR when it comes to filling his doe tags, never when he's chasing a buck. Penetration on game is never complete, for he's recovered every bullet after a thorough necropsy. Every shot he's taken is carefully planned and selected. In very capable hands, the .223 is sufficient. But it would never be my first choice on game, I think there are better rounds that fill the bill.

You would have a hard time buying online at the DEP website since you're not in the system yet. Go to a licensing agent, show them proof of your past NY licenses and you're good to go. http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/hntlicfe.htm

One article on the .223/5.56 and the points I mentioned: Hunters’ Rights and the .223http://www.nrahuntersrights.org/Article.aspx?id=6148

The only "stigma" hunters had with the black rifle for half a century is the cartridge it's chambered in. That is the limitation. Depending on various state's hunting guidelines for big game, the .223/5.56 doesn't make minimum caliber requirements in many of them for the most popular 4-legged game pursued; the whitetail deer.

Those proposals have been approved, but need to go before the Fish & Game Council for final vote. Their July 9th meeting was when they were to vote on these, but the meeting was cancelled. The next meeting is scheduled for August 9th. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/fgcnclmtg.htm http://www.nj.gov/dep/rules/notices/20130415a.html

Hasn't passed yet. July's meeting was cancelled. It will come to a vote in the August hearing. Keep in mind there are specific zones where ML's are allowed for squirrel. And you'll need a NJ Rifle Permit.

All Marlin levers I've felt have some "side to side" play in them when open. I would have a gunsmith check the chamber of that rifle. If the case is expanding too much it may explain the "hard to open after firing" situation. It's not hard to open with an unfired round or no round in the chamber, correct? Question: is your Marlin an older New Haven, CT gun or a newer Remlin?

Store it in the safe with the hammers at rest. Put the blue case under your bed or in a closet somewhere. But, if you own a Krieghoff, Kolar, Beretta SO-5 or SO-10, Ljutic, Perazzi, or Silver Seitz; I think you're supposed to sleep with them at night.

Then I would look at the relationship of the locking block in its confine and how smoothly it travels, and how it locks into the rear of the bolt and unlocks. The first thing the lever does is when moved forward (down) is pull down the locking block, which drops the two-piece firing pin in the bolt as it's pulled from the bolt's recess. Once out of the way, the lever continues to move and moves the bolt rearward. Try reassembling w/o the locking block and check to see it the bolt opens and closes easily through motion of the lever. Or, with everything removed, you can insert the bolt home, push the locking block up to lock the bolt then pull on the block to see if it moves freely so the bolt can be removed.

I just noticed this: The first thing the lever does is drop the locking bar in its raceway, then continued movement of the lever forward retracts the bolt rearward. Does the locking block (bolt) move freely in its raceway? Maybe that's where it's binding up?

Marlin's ejector is two-piece. The extractor is one-piece. I assume you replaced Marlin's ejector with the one-piece unit from Wild West Guns? The Marlin action is pretty simple to figure out. Is the two-piece firing pin working as designed? Are the retaining pins intact on the bolt or are they coming loose?

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Cold hammering forging of rifle barrels has been around since it began in Germany in 1939. Most European barrels are still hammer forged today. (I.E. Steyr, Heym, Sako, Tika, Walther, Sauer.) Ithaca has been forging their shotgun barrels, they call it Roto-Forging, starting with a 10" mandrel, since they began making the Model 37 before the war. Their barrels are hammer forged while still cherry red hot.