What trigger guard new old should be used on a Marlin 70 synthetic stock?

Answer 1

Get some aluminum bar stock from a machine shop and maybe buy a used bench-top drill press and an electric hand-drill if you don't have one and carve your own--that way you'd get something that won't or might not crack at the rear screw hole like the cheap cheesy plastic piece-of-you-know-what that comes with this otherwise fine little weapon. While you're at it build one that is a unitary "lower trigger group" incorporating both a magazine well and the trigger housing. I've never seen a firearm on which this DIY project would be more practical for the moderately-skilled. When I build mine I'm going to make a pistol grip that encloses the magazine well and a linkage from the trigger back to where the normal actuation lever presses the plate in the upper action to release the actual sear. If I'm feeling particularly rambunctious I may make the trigger so that it is pulled back to load a spring and then as it's released the trigger is actuated instead of on the usual primary pull as it may make for more accurate shooting in the average marksman ( definitely me). I also plan a wire f stock so the entire gun then will be all metal as it probably ought to have been originally.

Any engineers from any manufacturers out there reading this? Here's the golden opportunity to redesign a classic well-loved and trusty firearm and sell aftermarket conversion kits or to put the whole weapon into production if Marlin is still in business or under license if they're amenable.

I love the basic gun it just infuriates me a trusted manufacturer of quality firearms would ever cheapen such a good design by inclusion of this cheesy plastic trigger guard/trigger which has a critical dimension adjacent to a main screw where some recoil energy could be expected to be felt which seems to have had no engineering employed in it's configuration at all--as if they literally made it to crack at that point so they could sell everyone who bought the gun a new trigger guard or several over the life of the gun. I hate to think that, but Stranger Things have happened.

The next gun I'm buying is coming from Hungary and the next one after that will have been manufactured in Bulgaria. I used to be a big buy-American advocate when it came to guns until I got my first 10-22 and it had a cheesy plastic trigger guard instead of metal and this Marlin ( a gift from a friend which I really appreciated as regards the friend but not as regards the manufacturing/design by it's producer ) . Now I figure if we're going to have a commie President I might as well buy eastern bloc nation manufactured firearms, especially since I can get well-made durable ALL METAL firearms at a reasonable price from those sources.

If you can't beat 'em ( apparently, and remember, RWR was senile!) join 'em.