Marlin 795 LTR available for Project Appleseed

[GKar]

Seems Marlin has partnered with Project Appleseed to make available a out-of-the-box Liberty Training Rifle based on their 795 semi.  Synthetic stock (not a great fan), two 10-round mags, AccuTrigger, Tech-Sights, 1" web sling.  Also, purchase thru July 4th comes with a free certificate for participation in an Appleseed shoot.  Will be interesting to see how this goes.

 

http://appleseedinfo.org/ltr-marlin.html

 

 

[BigK]

Cool idea for a partnership.

How'd Ruger let this one get away? Edited March 15, 2013 by BigK

[GKar]

I've often wondered why Ruger didn't take a more active role in the whole LTR idea. 

 

I like the Marlin partnership...just wish their offering came with a wood stock instead of synthetic.  Always been more partial to furniture than Tupperware...

[ttocswob]

A little more backstory from Bob Owens:

 

We’re fortunate that Marlin really “gets” Appleseed as a mission and grasps the reasoning behind the rifle, and it didn’t hurt that one of the Marlin employees working on the Marlin 795-based rifle through the conceptual stages is himself an Appleseeder. I’m going to make the bold prediction that this rifle is going to be a best seller from the second it hits the market.

Also links to the Gallery of Guns page, you can ask to be notified when available - NVM:

Due to unprecedented demand,
the Stock Watch feature
has been temporarily suspended.

I signed up when first listed - don't know if I'm still on the list to be notified or not.

 

 

Edited to add: Yikes! A search for all .22LR rifles in stock only returns 6! A H&R, two Citadel M-1 Carbine, the rest are Savage. And the have a bunch of the Legacy/Chippa/Citadel, must be really bad.

Edited March 15, 2013 by ttocswob