someguy2800
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Some of you may have remembered reading a thread I started last year about the crooked front sight on my Marlin Guide Gun.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/hillarious-marlin-customer-service-experience.827109/
Well I have been wanting to get a semi auto iron sights 22 rifle and wanted to try out a Marlin model 60 since I have never owned or shot one. I saw they had them in the sale flyer for one of the local sporting goods stores so I decided to go pick one up this morning. The sales clerk said they had 4 in stock so I asked if he could bring them all out and I'll take the nicest looking one, so he does and I look them over. They all had nice wood, they were all rough and gritty, and the fit was was about the same on all of them, so I just picked one that had the nicest paint on the receiver and also had a serial number starting with MN, my home state.
I take it home and tear it apart to address the gritty action and terrible gritty creepy awful trigger. The trigger group in these rifles are a real pain to take apart and get back together but after stoning the sear and hammer and tunning all the springs one by one I got a nice crisp 4 lb trigger out of it. Then went to work polishing the inside of the reciever to get it to cycle smoothly. Get it all done and back together, clean the gunk out of the bore and load up the tube. I take it outside to shoot it into the snowbank and with the rear sight at its middle setting it shoots 4 inches high and left at 10 yards!
Wouldn't you know it, I never even though to check in the store, the front sight is on crooked!!!!! DANG NABIT MARLIN I'd like to throw a brick through your window!
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/hillarious-marlin-customer-service-experience.827109/
Well I have been wanting to get a semi auto iron sights 22 rifle and wanted to try out a Marlin model 60 since I have never owned or shot one. I saw they had them in the sale flyer for one of the local sporting goods stores so I decided to go pick one up this morning. The sales clerk said they had 4 in stock so I asked if he could bring them all out and I'll take the nicest looking one, so he does and I look them over. They all had nice wood, they were all rough and gritty, and the fit was was about the same on all of them, so I just picked one that had the nicest paint on the receiver and also had a serial number starting with MN, my home state.
I take it home and tear it apart to address the gritty action and terrible gritty creepy awful trigger. The trigger group in these rifles are a real pain to take apart and get back together but after stoning the sear and hammer and tunning all the springs one by one I got a nice crisp 4 lb trigger out of it. Then went to work polishing the inside of the reciever to get it to cycle smoothly. Get it all done and back together, clean the gunk out of the bore and load up the tube. I take it outside to shoot it into the snowbank and with the rear sight at its middle setting it shoots 4 inches high and left at 10 yards!
Wouldn't you know it, I never even though to check in the store, the front sight is on crooked!!!!! DANG NABIT MARLIN I'd like to throw a brick through your window!
