Ya sure and $1.50 postage. From years ago

Kid brother inherited a 7 mm smokeless action and got one of the last of these kits about 30 years ago... took two tries to get the right threaded barrel (sound familiar) and this, their “last” barrel in this style required minor straightening, but it finally worked out.  He had the receiver milled to octagon top style and added a cheap Italian tang and globe sight set to get a fun shooter in 45-70.

Froggie

PS I sure would have liked to build up a gun on one of the 444 hammered barrels they offered back then!

I have one of these and at first I thought it was a big mistake it came with a bunch of stuff the old owner was shooting like some 300 grain bullets and old du pont 3f black powder. This gun does not like short light bullets it shoots with great accuracy the government bullet of 510 grains and Goex ctg. 60 grains . But the butt stock is awful.

uscra112 wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 9:30pm:


Much of what Numrich has offered for sale over the years has been rejects from others! And often at scrap metal prices! Sometimes they got lucky and got some good parts in the mix. Sometimes they got lucky and sold stuff to people who couldn't tell the difference. Sometimes their return policy made it tough on customers to return items, so they simply tossed small purchases in the scrap bin.
I bought one of their .45-70 barrels for a project decades ago, and the bore was off at one end by over 1/8" from center! That was fortunate, as it being so far off I could easily see it before any work began!
I bought a set of screws for an 1889 Marlin I was working on, and when they arrived all the heads were flat head! I ended up chucking each up and shaping the heads to look correct.
Bought a pawl or hand for a Colt SAA and it came without a flat spring. I called them and they wouldn't replace it until I sent the bad one back. Then they sent a replacement, but with it came another bill for shipping! A note said they'd add the shipping charge to my next order! Called them up and read them the riot act, and told them they could be waiting a very long time before ever adding it to another order, as I'd not be making one. The person agreed to cancel the shipping charge, and I told him he still owed me for shipping the bad part back! They credited me for that.
I try to buy very little from them, but did get quite a bit of their Remington parts when they were selling off the late Rolling Block parts.

Msalm wrote on Mar 9^th, 2021 at 11:48am:


Buying surplus factory barrels from them has never been an issue. It's all the rest of their parts that are not factory made that are suspect.
Up until maybe 6-7 yrs. ago they still had original Marlin factory barrels for models made in the 1890's. They were bought as scrap from Marlin when they moved their plant from New Haven to North Haven, way back in the late 1960's.