Who has a Marlin 39M?

ulmxopgrist · Post by **ulmxopgrist** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:35 pm

I was drawn into the local gunstore by forces unexplainable, where I found a 39M. It is a gem. It looks brand spanking new, and I doubt it has even been cycled much on account of the stiffness of the action. There was a never used scope mount on it with no marks underneath it. I put it on layaway, it is going to cost me three seventy something after tax. I would have agreed to more. The build quality on this thing is miles ahead of my Stainless Guide Gun.

This is better than being aggressively pursued by a beautiful woman.

Who else has one? I bet you freaking love it. I can't see doing anything to it other than shooting it until my brain explodes from the joy of rimfire shooting. Have any of you done anything to yours? Does your favor a particular load or does it love everything?

I am eager to read more good things about them, however I am very interested in hearing bad things about them too.Has anyone ever owned one that sucked?

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:57 pm

Welcome aboard!

Sounds like a great find, especially in the condition you mention. You got yourself a deal!

I have an older (1966) 39A "Mountie", and it eats pretty much any .22 with delight. It is a pleasure to shoot, and you can fire .22's all day long and not break the bank (or your shoulder)!!!

Congrats! Post some pictures when you get it home!!!

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:02 pm

Welcome to the campfire.
Pics are most definitely in order.

Jaguarundi · Post by **Jaguarundi** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:54 am

Welcome aboard!Sweet deal.Quote-Does your favor a particular load or does it love everything? well thats part of the fun with rimfires is finding the brand/make ammo that your particular gun will shoot accurate.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:38 am

I have a '69 Mountie. Love IT!

Mokwaw · Post by **Mokwaw** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:55 am

I do. Bought it and one for my best bud new in early 70"s. After we tried several brands of ammo we settled on Winchester T22...we bought a 5,000 round case and split it......that batch of T22's is long gone. But I find that most standard velocity .22 work pretty good. The T22's were one holers at 25 yards, we sighted at 25 account we were both squirrel hunters, we prided ourselves in the quiet sneak to get close, the man who filled his limit (5 per day) and got back to the truck first got all the hot coffee waitin in the thermos. Those were fun times, sadly I was transferred a couple of hundred miles away with my job, we are still best bud's but we don't get to walk the woods together anymore, I sure miss that.

We both still have our 39M's....I tried to buy his from him last year, he said it had a home with him as long as he still breathed.....I feel the same about mine.

Post by **Hobie** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:22 am

I got me one, too! They are what a levergun should be.

Noah Zark · Post by **Noah Zark** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:55 am

ulmxopgrist:

Congrats on an excellent acquisition!

I have two of them, purchased used at different times over the past 30 years. I also have a 39TDS, the 16" version. Mine wear steel Lyman or Redfield receiver sights.

The 39M "Mountie" is just about as perfect a rimfire levergun as can be wanted or designed. They are handy, well-balanced, accurate, and utterly reliable if the breech area is kept clean of 22 rimfire bullet lube gunk and powder residue.

I like the Browning BL-22 for it's fast acting short-throw lever, but if I take a 22 lever to the range it is 9/10 one of the Mounties. I also have a 39A rifle, but I haven't shot it in maybe 10 years.

Noah

Buffboy · Post by **Buffboy** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:02 am

I got mine back in the late 70s, a 71 vintage IIRC. A neighbor and best friend got a new commemorative (don't remember the issue) with an octagon barrel for his 14th birthday brand new. He traded his browning T-bolt for it. I was always amaised by it's accuracy. He always ask what "part" of the eye I wanted him to shoot that gopher. It was a running joke, but he usually made the shot. He'd turn that little carbine sideways, it would flick the empties out and he'd pick them out of the air with the next shot.

He shot it a lot.

I bet he still has it. I wanted one bad but by the time I had any money the Ms were out of production. I never have liked the longer A's that much. They aways seemed too ungainly. I saved for quite a while then found one locally in a dispersal of an estate. That's the only way you get one around here, someone's got to die, nobody ever sells one otherwise. I never mastered his trick but I've always loved that little rifle.

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:10 am

[I was drawn into the local gunstore by forces unexplainable, where I found a 39M.]

Ooomba-barra-ooma........Ooomba-barra-ooma.........

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:25 am

I have a M and an A and the M wins hands down!

Boomer45 · Post by **Boomer45** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:44 am

I also have an"M" and an "A". The "M" used to belong to an older friend of mine. He bought back in 66. I bought it from him a couple of years ago as his eyesight had pretty much gone and he was no longer able to shoot. The "A" i got from my father-in-law. Same story. This is a 71 model. I love both but shoot the "M"more. Just that much handier with the shorter barrel and straight grip stock.

Hey Mokwaw, you're only about 90 miles away from where I live. If you every want to get together and do some squirrel hunting let me know. Maybe we can meet halfway.

Boomer

trapper45 · Post by **trapper45** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:03 pm

Got a brand-new 39M in '82 or so. Spot-on with anything fed to it. Cycles reliably with anything, but it seems to group happiest with the Win Super-X Hi-Speeds. In actual fact, it will run quite nicely on anything, and that's good news when I break out a Wally-box at the range. The Ruger 10/22 went to little brother (free) because it kept hanging up every so often. Never had a feeding, firing or ejecting problem--ever--with the 39M.