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Old 11-12-2008 | 05:15 PM
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Default RE: Marlin XL-7?? Anybody shot one?

A friend of mine just bought one last week in 30/06.. took it to the range and it performed very well as far as grouping.
He cleaned it well at home and then swabbed it out BONE DRY as I suggested.
I also told him to shoot 2 throw aways at the range.. don't even check the group until he had 2 fouling shots in it. He then proceeded to go through 12 rounds to get it on paper and shooting dead on at 100 yards.
He then cleaned it again to bone dryand shot one fouling shot before checking it with another 3 shot group. It held it's zero.
He's happy and left it alone though I would have advised him to dial it in to be 2" high at 100 yards...
So far so good. I'll post any info here as he uses the rifle over the next months.
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