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Bought a "Special Edition" Marlin 60 about 28 years ago @ Big 5 Sporting Goods. The only thing "Special Edition" about it was the gold trigger. That rifle and I have been though a lot together, and tens of thousands of rounds.
I cleaned it rarely and it just kept on shooting. It has sat in my safe for the better part of the last 10 years, and I recently took it out and cleaned her up for my son to shoot. Well, it must have been the years of gun powder residue and dirt holding all together because she just didn't want to run. She was tired. So on to the interwebs I went to give her a tummy tuck and some new life.
I ordered a new aluminum trigger guard and new adjustable wide blade trigger from DIP to replace the gritty, worn out stock trigger and cracked plastic trigger guard. Of course I went with the gold anodized trigger to keep the original look of the gun. Add to that a new trigger spring kit from MCARBO and now she has a sweet, adjustable trigger set at around 3 1/2 lbs. There's just a bit of creep to it and absolutely no over-travel. It breaks clean and crisp. I never knew a Marlin could feel so good!
Took her out for a little field testing and that's when I found out that her feed throat and lifter spring were pretty much shot (pardon the pun!). Onto Brownell's and I ordered the feed throat upgrade kit, which includes a new feed throat, new cartridge lifter, and a new lifter spring. While I was at it I pulled the old Bushnell Banner 22 scope off of her and installed some William's Fire Sights. I want my boy to learn irons before scopes. The Fire Sights are SWEET!
She's beat to hell and she ain't pretty, but she's a shooter! I'll post up some pic's and maybe a video of her in action. She's my "sleeper" rifle. No one will suspect her to be able to shoot Washington's eye out of a Quarter at 25 yards, but she did it before and she'll do it again!
I cleaned it rarely and it just kept on shooting. It has sat in my safe for the better part of the last 10 years, and I recently took it out and cleaned her up for my son to shoot. Well, it must have been the years of gun powder residue and dirt holding all together because she just didn't want to run. She was tired. So on to the interwebs I went to give her a tummy tuck and some new life.
I ordered a new aluminum trigger guard and new adjustable wide blade trigger from DIP to replace the gritty, worn out stock trigger and cracked plastic trigger guard. Of course I went with the gold anodized trigger to keep the original look of the gun. Add to that a new trigger spring kit from MCARBO and now she has a sweet, adjustable trigger set at around 3 1/2 lbs. There's just a bit of creep to it and absolutely no over-travel. It breaks clean and crisp. I never knew a Marlin could feel so good!
Took her out for a little field testing and that's when I found out that her feed throat and lifter spring were pretty much shot (pardon the pun!). Onto Brownell's and I ordered the feed throat upgrade kit, which includes a new feed throat, new cartridge lifter, and a new lifter spring. While I was at it I pulled the old Bushnell Banner 22 scope off of her and installed some William's Fire Sights. I want my boy to learn irons before scopes. The Fire Sights are SWEET!
She's beat to hell and she ain't pretty, but she's a shooter! I'll post up some pic's and maybe a video of her in action. She's my "sleeper" rifle. No one will suspect her to be able to shoot Washington's eye out of a Quarter at 25 yards, but she did it before and she'll do it again!
The old girl is still spot on and the old man didn't forget how to use it either.
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