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Within the past decade, Marlin, in cooperation with the ammunition wonks over at Hornady, have come up with a solution to the problem that generation after generation of cowboy carbine lover has lamented– how do you get a long-range rifle round to fit in a tubular magazine?

You see for well over a century, short, fat cartridges that mounted stubby bullets have handicapped the lever-action rifle. This is because these rounds, resting bullet point to primer bottom, risked detonation if said bullet point was not reasonably flat.

Well, about that.

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