Thought I would post this here,

My club has 2 Marlin 2000L target rifles, both have

extraction problems
light hits on the primers
Sloppy safeties

These 2 rifles have a magazine housing with a fake magazine which acts as a single shot follower.
Didn't know that until I disassembled the rifle. All that stuff is under the palm rail.

I wound up doing the following.

Ordered 2 aftermarket extractors (probably won't use them) (and 2 10 rnd mags (more later)

Lapping the chamber with a brass brush
thorough cleaning of the bolt
Bend the safety lever to get it to engage the receiver notches (what a pos)
bent the ejector on one

one has a weak mag release so the follower drops. We wired the release tight

They now feed RN fine. Will not feed HP or flat tip at all.

I did order 2 10 rnd mags but the palm rail will have to be modded to get at the magazine.

How do they shoot?

They shoot very good. We have them in a 50 ft indoor range so they better shoot good.

For casual or new shooters they are too heavy.

Saga continues.

Rifles worked with lubed premium ammo for a while. If I put the least bit of tension on the extractor they will extract. I got 2 new ones from Numrich today (also got 2 mags ) . I'll install the extractor tonight.

PS. mags won't work on these rifles w/o moding the stock, palmrail etc.. (may not be doing that)

wound up bending both tips of the old extractors an now both rifles are working. We will see for how long.