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This happened at our house some years back. We had placed a sticky mouse trap behind the couch. In the middle of the night I hear noises like the house was collapsing. I find the cat and a partly eaten mouse out in the garage, dragged through the cat door, still both stuck n the trap. Seamus

Snoozing and waiting on Pops!

Lesco Brandon the pronunciation is not appropriate for little ears.

An 'out of battery' is a VERY RARE occurrence in an 1894 Marlin. And allow me to explain why. First of all, when the lever is moved downward to cock the hammer (and eject empties and feed a new live round), the lever actually moves the firing pin rearward. So there is no part of the firing pin extending thru the firing pin hole. If the trigger can be activated and cause the hammer to start dropping while the action is open, the hammer will do one of two things: 1. it will either pop up in under the bolt into the recess and cause the action to lock up until the hammer is manually recocked. 2. OR, your Half-Cock notch should catch your hammer during its fall, preventing it from hitting the FP. If you fully close your action, you will have to manually cock the hammer before firing. AND, if you continue to use the factory firing pin system, your bolt locking lug HAS to be in its upward position in order to align the rear section of the firing pin with the front section before the firing pin can strike the primer. I ain't saying that it can't happen, but in the 12 years of my SASS/CAS involvement, I have never seen a Marlin 1894 have an Out Of Battery. And from the Marlin's I have seen, over 75-80% of them have had 1-piece firing pins installed AND have also had the 'lever-trigger' safety bar removed or neutralized. Hope some of this info helps. ..........Widder

If the lever is open and the bolt is away from the chamber how can the round fire out of battery if the FIring pin can't reach the round? *Side Note* It's always polite to contact the manufacturer before going on public forums with unhappy rants. I always stand behind all my products and support SASS/shooters to the fullest. Slick.