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My 341 Sportmaster is descendant from the Model 33 and this lineage keeps going all the way to the 5 hundred series guns.
The 33 is a single shot.
34 is a 33 that doesn't take-down, has a tube magazine and improvements to the action.
The 341 is essentially an improved 34 combining features with the model 41 single shot.
The 512 is an improved 341.
There's lots of other 3x, 4x, 34x and 5xx in this series too.
Single shots, detachable boxes, target sights, scope mounting provisions, different barrel profiles... etc.
Ah, so I was right that my Rem 510 Targetmaster is a descendant of the 300 series.
ReplyDeleteIt's the end of the breech where the firing pin is that looks so darned similar.
This sounds like something that needs a decoder ring almost as complex as second and third generation S&W semi-auto pistols.
ReplyDeleteMarlin kept their rimfire model numbering simple enough for even me to understand. Started with 80 series, then 780 series, then 880 series, then 980 series. The last number denoted capacity - 0 single shot, 1 magazine tube fed, 2 box magazine fed.
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