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Old August 12, 2005, 09:42 AM   #11
Jim Watson
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Correction, you are wrong.
Marlin has made tube magazine lever action rifles in .35 Remington for years.
There was a little known lineup of Stevens tube magazine lever action rifles that took the Remington rimless cartridges instead of the more common rimmed Winchesters. Maybe that is why they are little known.
Remington 14 and 141 pump rifles had tube magazines for the Remington rimless cartridges, including a spiral flute to keep bullet noses off of primers so you could use spitzer bullets.

Ed Harris wrote about converting a Marlin from .44 Magnum to .45 ACP and setting up for the rimless case was about the least of his problems. But he wouldn't even give chrono data for hardball due to concern about a hard RN in a straight case aligned directly with the next round's primer.

It doesn't even have to be pointed or rounded. There have been reports of Henry repros in .44-40 blowing up the magazine when the user let the magazine follower slam down against rounds in the tube.
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