I picked up the rifle I bought on gunbroker that jammed back from the gunsmith today and put a box of ammo through it. The gunsmith had to machine the new carrier to get it in the rifle, it was not "drop in" for some reason. So that problem is fixed but I ran into a new issue. I had trouble getting the magazine tube to accept the rounds. The follower seemed to get stuck at different intervals accepting different amounts of (factory) rounds each time. The gunsmith noted as did I when I cleaned it after purchase that the magazine tube is really hard to fit back into the receiver. We had to go in through the receiver and apply pressure on the lip of the tube to line up while you pushed the tube into the receiver. My gunsmith doesn't work on a lot of Marlins so he wasn't sure if that is common or if that is an issue I have also. Should it be hard to fit the tube into the receiver and is it possible that it could be causing an issue. Could the tube have been bent or bulged for some reason. I see Brownells sells the tubes fairly cheap but my model is a 1978 and I wonder if the tube brownells sells will fit it. Thanks for the help with this rifle I wish I would have never bought off gunbroker. The rifle did shoot well otherwise and I would really like it if I could get it functioning properly.
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