That handled short, longs, and long rifle ammo, would you buy it?
For 35 years my only .22 rifle was a Marlin 39A. The tube magazine fed everything from CB Shorts to Stingers with no problems for all those years. This rifle would fire, extract, and eject everything flawlessly.
I guess I got kinda spoiled.
Then, about a year ago I saw a left-handed .22 Savage Mark II-GL bolt gun in a store and bought it because it was the only left-handed .22 bolt gun I'd ever seen.
Immediately, the worst case of "buyer's remorse" I've ever experienced set in.
While this particular rifles certainly is a tackdriver, whether or not it would feed, extract, or eject mostly depended upon whatever mood this gun happened to be in at the moment.
After all kinds of attempts at a solution, the problem was finally solved by slipping a second C-clamp extractor spring over the existing one. This apparently gave the extractor claw more "bite."
Now, I'm utterly thrilled with this rifle and wouldn't part with it.
The 3 five-round magazines I have seem to be working okay, although I've heard other people have had problems with these mags over the years.
It seems to me that a tube magazine would be a big improvement for this rifle.
What do you think?