Recent content by Terry Syd

Well done I was one of the early ones to make very adverse comments about the later model 39A. It may have not been received well at the time, but it was all true. Now, after many more have voiced their opinion, it is all out in the open, and it is time for Marlin to wake up to the reputation...

Ammo Sandy, I've been through about 20 different boxes of ammo. The rifle seems to prefer RWS Subsonic and CCI Minimag for supersonic. Some of the other ammo was terrible to shoot, but I finally settled on those two rounds for super and subsonic ammo. I'll give the fire lapping a go and see...

New 39A I posted a while back about my problems with my new 39A. After catching up on some of the posts it seems others have had the same quality control issues with the newer guns. I got rid of the jams by tightening the six loose screws. I got rid of the grating action by filing and honing...

Smoothing the action BBaker, thanks for the compliment on my posting about the 'bounce back' mod. The loose screws I had caused all sorts of jam problems, but they were fixed fairly easily. However, there is another issue you might want to check with your rifle. When you work the lever...

Misfires Fishinbill, I had similar problems with my new 39A. I found 6 (six) loose screws in the receiver - virtually everyone of them caused some sort of problem. If everything is tightened down, then maybe it is a firing pin that is hanging up. If so, check the top of the bolt and see if it...

Jams vicdotcom, this is a brand new rifle with no build up. The nose of the rounds were hitting the edge of the barrel as it entered the chamber. Hopefully I have tweaked a fix for the problem by bending the leaf spring up a tad. If I could cut a notch in the underside of the bolt for the...

Gunsmithing I have given up on getting the scope mount off. The screws are too soft for the torque required and I am stripping out the slot. I decided as an alternative I simply bent the leaf spring up about 1/2 a millimeter. The action of the bolt still feels the same, but the nose of the...

Jams Thanks guys, yeah it's hard to believe all the poorly assembled components of this rifle. I thought the gunsmith would have checked it out before letting it leave the shop. Heck, he could have a least checked that leaf spring bolt before he welded the scope mount over the top of the screw...

Jamming First post - I've been a long time Marlin fan, owned a couple of 30-30s and a 45-70. Now I've got my first Model 39A. I was disappointed in the quality control of this latest acquisition. The action was very rough. The biggest offender was the top of the bolt. The rivet to hold the...