Marlin 60

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Re: Marlin 60

The old Marlin 60 is back together. A fellow Calgunner supplied the lockwork, and I supplied the trigger assembly, bolt handle, and a Williams Foolproof aperture sight. Thanks JC.

Last part will be to add sling swivels for a 1 1/4 inch GI web sling, firing test, and voila! ready to use as an Appleseed loaner target rifle.

Hey Frank, good to see you on Calguns!

[pullnshoot25]

Re: Marlin 60

Cool pictures. I might be missing something but those sights dont look like they are only 0.005" different in height? The new one looks much taller. Ever thought about installing Tech Sights on it to improve its performance?

Appleseed looves techsights.

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Re: Marlin 60

Mfortie,
I'll volunteer to handle required paperwork. Can't have too many loaners.
They will be well used, for sure. Thanks. PM sent.
-FM

How many rifles does the Appleseed Project need? I have an idea that could net a few...

[Francis Marion]

The height difference is 0.05 inch, not 0.005 inch; I agree 0.005" would be hard to distinguish.

Tech sights are good performers & cost roughly $75. The Williams Foolproof sight cost just over $20. Both sights are good for target work. Tech sights don't require machining, Williams Foolproof does need holes drilled and tapped. In any case, the Marlin factory sights are easy to improve upon.

Cool pictures. I might be missing something but those sights dont look like they are only 0.005" different in height? The new one looks much taller. Ever thought about installing Tech Sights on it to improve its performance?

[Francis Marion]

How many rifles does the Appleseed Project need? I have an idea that could net a few...

How many loaners needed... Appleseed held nearly 100 CA events in 2010. We'll probably surpass that number in 2011.

So 2011 will probably offer CA families over a hundred chances to attend our rifle and history clinics. Some families borrow three or four rifles. At this point, it's hard to quantify how many people could borrow them, but there will be well over a hundred events where they'll be used, and I would like to see at least twelve rifles available for loan at any given event, and attendance maxed out.

The interest level is considerable here- people are hungry for a program to shore up rifle fundamentals, and to remind them of how valuable and rare is this Freedom of ours. Especially here in CA where our legislators often disrespect and harm our gun rights- we 'get it' more than complacent gun owners in pro-Second Amendment states because we're watching them weld together the Iron Curtain. The very good news is that We, the People, can most definitely do something about it. We have a chance to repair or replace the legislature every two years, and to undo any damage to the law.

As we get more and more Californians interested in Freedom and Liberty, over time we will prevail at the ballot box. It may take a generation, but that's what Americans do: we push back, we work, we sacrifice, against improbable odds. That is the lesson and the Heritage, and therefore the standard of behavior we take from the Founders.

Humble 22 caliber rifles assist this effort. More are needed now, and even more later as the program grows. Unlike the 1950's, our public schools don't host shooting programs for school kids where they can learn the proper use of firearms. How sad since, in a proper shooting program, kids can learn valuable life lessons as they practice and compete- that quality effort in regular pracitce produces quality outcome; that We the People are armed and therefore are in charge of our country; that persistence leads to excellence; that gender doesn't matter in outcome; that you can set a goal and then meet it; that guns are not 'evil' but may be applied to very positive purposes...

So there just are not very many places for families and this next generation to acquire an informed, safe, skilled knowledge of rifles. We can't afford to raise a generation that doesn't care about gun rights, or they will be the generation that ends centuries of Freedom. Not on our watch.

[pullnshoot25]

Re: Marlin 60

How many rifles does the Appleseed Project need? I have an idea that could net a few...

How many loaners needed... Appleseed held nearly 100 CA events in 2010. We'll probably surpass that number in 2011.

So 2011 will probably offer CA families over a hundred chances to attend our rifle and history clinics. Some families borrow three or four rifles. At this point, it's hard to quantify how many people could borrow them, but there will be well over a hundred events where they'll be used, and I would like to see at least twelve rifles available for loan at any given event, and attendance maxed out.

The interest level is considerable here- people are hungry for a program to shore up rifle fundamentals, and to remind them of how valuable and rare is this Freedom of ours. Especially here in CA where our legislators often disrespect and harm our gun rights- we 'get it' more than complacent gun owners in pro-Second Amendment states because we're watching them weld together the Iron Curtain. The very good news is that We, the People, can most definitely do something about it. We have a chance to repair or replace the legislature every two years, and to undo any damage to the law.

As we get more and more Californians interested in Freedom and Liberty, over time we will prevail at the ballot box. It may take a generation, but that's what Americans do: we push back, we work, we sacrifice, against improbable odds. That is the lesson and the Heritage, and therefore the standard of behavior we take from the Founders.

Humble 22 caliber rifles assist this effort. More are needed now, and even more later as the program grows. Unlike the 1950's, our public schools don't host shooting programs for school kids where they can learn the proper use of firearms. How sad since, in a proper shooting program, kids can learn valuable life lessons as they practice and compete- that quality effort in regular pracitce produces quality outcome; that We the People are armed and therefore are in charge of our country; that persistence leads to excellence; that gender doesn't matter in outcome; that you can set a goal and then meet it; that guns are not 'evil' but may be applied to very positive purposes...

So there just are not very many places for families and this next generation to acquire an informed, safe, skilled knowledge of rifles. We can't afford to raise a generation that doesn't care about gun rights, or they will be the generation that ends centuries of Freedom. Not on our watch.

We will talk