Ruger has a few new products they have announced but there are two items that stuck out and both are related to Marlin news.
Firstly is the answer to Hornady's curious release of a 10mm Auto version of the LEVERevolution line of ammunition. Unless you were familiar with the old conversions of Marlin 1894 rifles in .357 Magnum to 10mm Auto, this didn't really make much sense. The only people I had heard about doing the conversions was Ranger Point Precision.
Well, the second piece of the mystery is Marlin releasing a 10mm version of the 1894 Trapper. It's probably the first factory offering lever action in a traditional action (no I did not forget the Tombstone but I did remember the Taylor's 1873 while I wrote this) in a semi-auto caliber. It does make me wonder if they will do a 9mm version. It also makes me wonder if my 10mm General Purpose concept has enough merit that someone's doing something with it.
The other piece of news is the return of the Glenfield brand. Previously, Glenfield was the brand of a budget-ier version of Marlin rifles you would get from J.C. Penny's or maybe K-Mart back in the day. I'm pretty sure K-Mart sold Glenfield stuff. Anyway, Ruger brought back the brand and is releasing what looks like modified Ruger American rifle gen 1 for hunting applications. Looking at my favorite web crawler for prices shows a few online retails have the .270 Winchester version for around $399. I'll keep an eye out for that since I've been toying with the idea of having an inexpensive bolt action deer rifle and this new Glenfield Model A might just be the ticket if it's accurate.
I don't know what Ruger's intent is for the brand so it will be very interesting to see what they come up with or dump into the brand.
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