Marlin 60 and LRN

[76shuvlinoff]

Thanks to some good assistance here I mounted an old Bushnell Sportview 4X32 I had on the 39A to my Marlin 60 and sighted it in today. What a riot! I only had room and time to move out to 50 yards, it is pretty dang windy and cold in Michigan today but staying inside 2" was the rule of the day, (I know that's double the diameter of what most of you can do but my set-up is pretty informal) This is with cheap Blazer LRN. Low cost rifle, low cost ammo.

My real question here is that I have been reading how you should avoid lead bullets in the microgroove centerfire Marlins and I follow that advise with my 1894c. Does this same line of thought (no lead slugs in microgroove rifling) apply to the rimfires as well? I assume it does and once I'm out of the LRN maybe I should keep it to Minimags and Stingers? Federal bulk?

Thanks!
Mark

 

[Almond27]

Thanks Mark for posting this I never knew you were supposed to avoid lead.

 

[gvnwst]

My brother and i have used a LOT of lead bullets in his 39A (microgroove) with no problems at all. You should be fine. Just be sure to clean it well.

 

[76shuvlinoff]

Thanks folks!

 

[Marlin 45 carbine]

I have 2 Marlin centerfires with the Micro-Groove rifleing, the Camp 9mm and the .45acp - they don't like cast slugs (my handloads), they don't shoot well.
I have had Marlin .22LR that did fine with the lubed lead slugs but the plated MiniMags and the SuperX did better IMO.

 

[MIL-DOT]

My stainless 60 seems to like the lead Winchester X-perts pretty well.

 

[cleardiddion]

My marlin 60 seems to eat the remington bulk pack all day without a hiccup

 

[oregonhunter]

I never get tired of shooting my 60, great guns for plinking.

 

[TCB in TN]

All the model 60s I have had have eaten just about anything you wanted to feed them w/o trouble. Great little guns for the money.

 

[jerkface11]

What other kind of .22lr ammo is there?

 

[gvnwst]

Copper washed.

 

[jerkface11]

Copper washed is still lead as far as the rifling is concerned.

 

[moooose102]

my brother had (like 20 years ago) a bolt action marlin w/ microgroove barrel that we used to shoot lead bullets out of all the time. seemed accurate enough to us. i have a marlin 22 mag, but that shoots plated bullets. i dunno if this helps or not.

 

[jerkface11]

Heck I had a marlin .45-70 with a microgroove barrel and it would shoot good groups with lead bullets. Only if they were gas checked though.

 

[mio]

between my wife and i we have 3 model 60s and ive owned others in the past and from my experiance the lrn standard velocity mini mag is most accurate in them IF they will feed it.

the most recent model 60 i got doesnt like to feed them and i had one other in the past that didnt like to feed lead bullets. they seem to hang up partway in and the lead gets badly damaged.

i have no idea why this is and havent heard anybody else mention it before so maybe i just have bad luck.

 

[76shuvlinoff]

Just for comparison at Walmart this evening I grabbed up some copper washed HP Minimags at 6.47/100ct and a box of Federal Automatch "Target Grade" LRN at 11.57/325ct. I will try to shoot up some of each tomorrow in the 60. I have usually kept Stingers in my 39A, it seems pretty consistant with those. Depending on the weather here I'd like get out the 22 conversion for the 1911 and see how it works with these rounds too.