Have had my hands on a large number of Marlins and Winnies in my life. The Marlin in .35 was cool but reloading for it presented a problem of light primer strikes and I fussed with the die to get proper head space as it head spaced on the shoulder to solve it. A friend has a 32.20 and that is a sweet shooter. I have a late 94 'Ranger" plain Jane 30.30, nice and shoots well and real fun with cast or jacketed. Never took a deer with the 30.30 but mountains of them have fell to it. This Ranger ejects more to the side it would work scoped without the off set. At the gun shows there are always a bunch, some well worn from days afield. I like mine iron sighted as they were intended to be. To me, Marlin or Winchester...no matter.