I know you have the 45 buffer. Can I ask about ballpark what these buffers sell for if I need to replace one on my Camp 9 ?? Are they easy to replace ??They are not real prevalent, especially the 45 in my neck of the woods. Could be why I still have the buffer.
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I suspect the buffer will have dried out... the gun will function with out it but you would need to remove the little dried broken parts. I bought a Marline Camp Carbine 45 a zillion years ago and the buffer was bad on it... Marlin sent me several but I passed them on to the friend I gave the rifle to. He's a 1911 fanatic. This is just a little hard rubber piece that fits behind the bolt I think.I heard there was a concern about the buffer. Even new in box in a good environment, you think it will be bad ? It hasn't seen any extreme heat or cold. It's never been shot at all. Again, it's NIB. The P95 was a great gift. Yeah, my son has one of them coming tooa KP95DC !!! Darn, I wish he would come home. All through Scouts, we would go all the time. Shooting a lot of single shot 22's and of course another standard 10/22. I bought a couple of them for my Scouts to use. Those were great days. Why did they have to grow up ??
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+1 Leave it in the box. Maybe purchase a couple of new buffers, still in package and store them all together. Someone down the road might say, "yeah, but the buffers break"...
I had one I bought shortly after they came out.
I guess that guy made one of wood ? I am trying to picture this buffer. I see the blue picture that was listed. How can plastic and wood be used for doing the same thing. To me I am thinking a "buffer" is actually buffering some recoil in there. I can see rubber as doing that or maybe plastic, but wood ?? It makes me wonder why Marlin would use a material that would break down so quickly ??
Blume, did you change out any of these buffers? The more I am reading this, it seems they are just basically a use & throw away part. If so I would imagine they are not hard to replace them. One can do it himself and not take it to a gunsmith?
Yeah, I will check around for a couple of extra buffers I guess. I guess it is similar to driving a car and you have to change the oil. I'm thinking though, why the heck would they use plastic and not a piece of rubber ??
Well it's going to stay in the family. My son would never say anything like that, and it's up to him to make sure his sons don't say that. IF I heard it from one of those grandsons down the road, he would get the evil eye from me. How I was raised is you don't knock down anything that was given to you, that's for darn sure....I'm sure he'll raise them right to have common sense and respect. That is what we Don't have in this world as far as I'm concerned. I see too much of a big lack of common sense and respect.
I did change it out.. I discovered this 'problem' the first time I shot the used rifle.... little orange pieces were falling out of the top of the trigger guard.... then I guess I went on line and figured it out. Not really a big deal as I recall to change out, pretty much what one would do when doing a field strip and clean of the gun. seems like they were a rubberized kind of semi-clear plastic ... but nothing like a piece of wood.
Why buy buffers if it is t going to be shot? Since originality seems to be what you want, just leave it as is. For all we know- you can buy new buffers and *if* someone decides to shoot it years from now- the replacement buffers may be degraded like the originals did.
