I've had a bunch of 30-30s a few 35s and 1 45-70 all marlins. My go to lever gun is my 1895g guide gun. Its hard to beat when in the thick stuff. I wanted a 35 when i bought the guide gun, my dads got one he bought in the 80s but it got hard to find ammo for it except a few weeks before hunting season so i went and bought the 45-70 and glad I did,that hunting season dad had 8 bullets and that was it and he couldnt find any ammo every one kept telling him they one make one run of the 35 rem. Once a year and when its sold out its gone. If I would have bought the 35 at that time i woildnt have had any ammo to shoot out of it