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If it is a small "c" and the receiver is case colored, it is a 1945. If it's a capitol "C", it is a 1946. Is the receivered blued?

Don

Hi Road King: Your Model 1936 RC, with the PCMR markings, was made in 1941. All "B" prefix Marlins were made in 1941. Your marking on the buut stock is an excellent example of the C with the arrowhead inside it that the Pacfic Coast Militia Rangers used. The marking on the receiver is a bi...

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Yes, all the post war receivers, on the models you mentioned, were tapped on the left side.

Don

In answer to your question of when Marlin first started drilling and tapping the side of the receiver, it started in 1946, small letter "c' prefix, with the introduction of the Model 36. It was to accomodate the Lyman 56 receiver sight. The 1941 "B" prefix, did not have the side of th...

Hi: The crowned barrels began in late 1935, when Marlin made up a batch of '93's from parts on hand and were going to introduce the new Model 1936. These were all sold to the J.F. Galef Company, New York, on October 2, 1935. All of these guns have an "L" prefix. If any of you fellows have ...

Ray: Marlin introduced the Model 1936 in the fall of 1936. The first model had a fluted comb on the butt stock and a narrow stright butt plate. The fore arm had a "perch belly" shape to it. If your carbine has these features, it is a first model 1936 and with the low serial number, it prob...

Yerpdog: Please go back and read the information on this site that has been posted in the past. I have explained all the detailes of the Model 1936 and Model 36 too many times, so I prefer not to go through all of it again. The first variation of the Model 1936 was made from 1936 through 1940. All t...

Road King: Thank you for your reply. You'are very fortunate to have found one of the PCMR marked Model 1936's, and it has all the correct marks. As from your remark of having only seen one, they are rare. Good for you. I think the 1936 will look better without the spacer. Not as eye-catching, but mo...

Road King: Looks like you have two very nice 1941 Model 1936's. Does the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers rifle have the cartouche stamped into both the receiver and on the butt stock like the one in the book? They are rare and hard to come by. The one on page 597 had been mine at one time, but have si...

Petergun: Please scroll back to the various comments on the Model 1936 and you'll be able to find out the various characteristics of the first and second variations of the prewar Model 1936's, and you'll be able to indentify whether you have a regular carbine, sporting carbine or rifle. If you have ...

Hi Tim: Your Model 1936 is definitely a "RC" regular carbine. It has the 20 inch barrel and full magazine, along with the front barrel band on the forearm, which was found only on the regular carbines. The rifles and the sporting carbines both had a forearm cap instead of a barrel band. Ma...

Hi Tim: Your Model 1936 is a first model production. It has the perch belly forearm and fluted butt stock, with a straight hard rubber serated butt plate. As you gave no indictation of which style it might be, it was available in three variations. A Rifle with a 24 inch round barrel and 2/3 magazine...

Yerpdog: Your front swivel base is correct. This base had the two screws in it, just like yours, except with the addition of two knurled nuts securing it in place. The heads of both the front and back screws were identical and looked just like yours. The first time I came across one of these Marlin ...

yerpdog.

Sorry, no need to send your serial number to me, as when I went back to look at your pictures, I saw the serial number there.

Don

yerpdog: Your B prefix Model 1936ADL Deluxe, is a scarce model 1936. It is one of approximately 50 only deluxe Model 1936's made. The swivel bases on it are correct. They are the same bases and the quick disconnect swivels that Winchester used on their deluxe Models 64 and 71's. The difference was W...