marlin/glenfied from 1976

[n2t]

Just got this marlin glenfield localy, shoots great, I know to only used standard or high velocity ammo in it, and avoid hypervelocity and/or the stingers/velocitors. But I do have a couple question or two. First, this think has a pull out tab on the action/charging handle..but when pulled out, I'm not getting any lockback, is this correctable? Second, the "ejector" seems to be a small wire, about the size of a paperclip, that's pretty nifty and has been changed, does that sound right for the time period? A few pics just for grins, and it seems to love rem golden bullets and HATE win 333 bulk bullets. Took a bunny with it on the first day, can hold 1.5" 3 shot groups with open sights at 50 yards and put 5 for 5 in the head of a human silloette target at 100..not bad for a pawn shop find for 100 bucks.
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[shooter]

Looks exactly like my dad's. IIRC, the one I had was a newer model and did lock back. I gave it to my sister for Christmas a couple years ago. I don't think my dad's locks back, but can't speak to your other questions. In my experience, those guns are amazingly accurate, and are the best bang for your buck as far as .22's go.

[RKrodle]

Great little rifle nt2. I had a couple in the past and they all shot great. I can't answer your questions but have fun with it.

[Tycer]

The charging handle will manually lock it back, but the older ones like yours do not lock back automatically. I think they started locking in the mid 80's

The ejector is correct.

Keep her clean and she'll run like a champ. The only thing I've broken on one is the bolt buffer. Part number 6 on the Numrich website http://www.gunpartscorp.com/catalog/Pro ... atid=10671

It was probably the hyper stuff that battered the buffer.

[n2t]

I'm sticking with standard and high velocity stuff, but my charging handle doesn't seem to be locking the action back..I wonder if something is stuck/broken in there...functions perfectly..hopefully I can figure that part out.

[Tycer]

I'm sticking with standard and high velocity stuff, but my charging handle doesn't seem to be locking the action back..I wonder if something is stuck/broken in there...functions perfectly..hopefully I can figure that part out.

If your buffer is missing or damaged, the bolt will be allowed to travel too far back for the handle to engage its slot. Try letting the bolt move forward a bit.

[n2t]

I just messed with it a bit. I think I'll have a gunsmith look at the buffer (I'm not at all familiar with how the 60 is put together), pulling it all the way back, and letting it creep forward, it doesn't seem to pull out/lock in any position so something is def amis. But relyability is 100% with prefered ammo, so I'm sure I can get this figured out.

[Tycer]

it doesn't seem to pull out/lock in any position

You push the charging handle in, not pull it out.



If you are at all mechanically inclined, Junior has teardown instructions:

http://www.castbullet.com/misc/m60.htm

Reassemble in reverse order. The only halfway tricky part comes when reinstalling the bolt against the tension of the recoil spring. I swear: my Marlin Model 60 is the easiest firearm to disassemble and reassemble I've ever owned.

It should also never require the services of a gunsmith to repair. Counting the recoil spring and the five springs shown here, there's a total of six springs within the rifle. Chances are a failure would be due to one of those springs breaking, probably one of these five. They are, from left to right:

[n2t]

you sir, are a genious. Pushed in..it works fine, lol I am apparently not the sharpest bowling ball on the planet. Took it apart and the buffer (white plastic part) looks almost new. problem solved. Learn something new all the time here, no wonder I keep coming back.

[DonP.]

I loves me my Model 60's.

I'm down to only 5 of them now, after my "kids" (35, 30 and 28 years old) each "helped themselves" to the ones I took them shooting with. I was more than happy to see them in new homes where they'll be appreciated. Heck the ones they took cost me from a low of $25 on a used rack locally, to the "high" priced one that set me back $75. But they keep following me home. Now I have 6 grandkids that will need one someday.

On the older models (long magazine that holds 17 rounds), they don't lock back on their own. You have to pull the slide back and push the handle in to hold it. The easy way to tell is if there is a small slide release tab in front of the trigger guard it locks back, it there is none, you do it manually. The newer ones only hold 14 rounds.

With a cheap scope and a box of Federal Auto Match, they shoot way better than a cheap mass market gun has any right to. If you are into playing with them - a la Ruger 10/22 style gadgetry, Boyd's occasionally has some "Gee Whiz" thumbhole stocks for them too.

As has been posted, there is a great sub-forum on the Model 60 in the Marlin section at Rimfire central.com.