Marlin 795/60 ammo picky?

[CoyoteSix]

Hi folks, easy question today. Is the Marlin795 ammo picky? I'm looking to buy a couple and throw scopes on them so my little brothers can shoot steel with me.

I just want to know if the 795/60 will chug cheap ammo (Remington thunderbolt for example... clean after every outing!) like my 10/22 will. The 10/22 is nice, but I see no difference between the two rifles besides after market accessories for the 10/22. So I'd rather take the marlin 795 for $50-$75 less and use the money to buy scopes and some extra ammo.

So THR does the 795/60 chug ammo?

 

[TurtlePhish]

My 795 eats EVERYTHING. I've never had any problems with ammo pickiness.

That's not saying it's all accurate, though.
I've had good luck with CCI SV and Federal bulk-pack Automatch. I've never tried any match ammo through it.

 

[mberoose]

I had a Remlin 795, it was far pickier than my 10/22. FAR pickier. Despised any bulk pack aside from Blazer, and to a lesser extent, Federal. CCI SV and Mini-Mags were the order of the day for me. But it always gave me tighter groups than the 10/22 and the rifle is obviously cheaper, so it's a give-and-take. The 10 round capacity drove me nuts though, and the aftermarket hi-cap options are pure garbage. I'd go with a Model 60 myself...higher capacity, more aftermarket options, and less picky in my experience. But the 795 is a fine lil plinker if you don't mind running decent ammo all the time.

 

[rbernie]

My Model 60 is the model of flexibility; it has given me no issues with either Fed, Rem, and Blazer bulk pack ammo.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

My experience has been that the Marlin 60 (originally 99) is usually omnivorous, and one should simply pick the ammo that gives the tightest groups. The hyperpower rounds that generate a lot of recoil may batter the nylon recoil buffer. I check mine every time I clean the guns (I own two, my son owns one), but other than yellowing a little from age, they have not shattered, and I shoot a lot of CCI Stingers in mine. About 1967 I had a firing pin break, ordered two firing pins from Marlin service division, and still have one spare of the two. I have seen claims that over eleven million Model 60s have been sold. They have proven to be good guns. That includes the box magazine variants like the Model 795,

 

[KansasSasquatch]

Between my father and I we've had a few 795s. We've had occasional problems with Remington bulk packs but they always eat Federal just fine. More bad than good using Winchester. CCI has always been my favorite rimfire ammo but after using so much of it our .22s always have trouble going back to bulk pack ammo. For a cheap plinker I always suggest starting with Federal and sticking with it if it doesn't give you any issues.

 

[areyouanywhere]

My friend's 795 shoots Remington golden bullet bulk ammo just fine. I am pretty sure Winchester White box worked fine also.. The thing is a little tack driver, very accurate. Those are the only 2 type of ammo we used and I remember both working fine.

 

[Mike J]

The only thing my model 60's have given me trouble with is Remington Golden Bullet. The bulk box of it I had wouldn't work well in any .22 I own including a cheapo single action revolver (think lots of duds). I started using Winchester 555 & it has done just fine.

I did change the recoil buffer in one of mine Carl. It was my Fathers & is an old Glenfield version made in 1985. I know Dad got it used & I don't know how many owners there were before him. It didn't bother me too much as the rifle was about 25 years old when I found that problem.

 

[IdahoSkies]

My marlin 795 eats everything I have given it, from hyper velocity, to high velocity, to bulk blazer rounds. Its awesome. Best $100.00 my wife ever spent on me for a birthday present. (Just don't tell her that). My only beef is the magazines are really expensive. But it shoots really straight, and fast, and eats everything. Great gun.

 

[cat_IT_guy]

Havent had a problem with mine being picky, as long as I give it a quick scrubbing every thousand rounds or so. Only time Ive seen it fail with any regularity was when it got really gummed up with residue.

 

[pseudonymity]

I have a couple thousand rounds through my 795 with different ammo and 4 different mags. I do not remember it ever failing to feed, and only occasionally failing to eject - but only with ammo that my 10/22 would choke on also.

I do think there were some 795s produced when the manufacturing moved to Remington that had some quality issues though.

Honestly the 795 is so simple it is hard to see how it could be really screwed up - the FCG is all just soft steel plates held together with pins and circle clips. The 795 receiver makes an AK receiver look like a rocket ship next to a bicycle.

 

[berettaprofessor]

No. Eats anything (I don't use Remington bulk packs but I've fired most other brands).

 

[TurtlePhish]

Honestly the 795 is so simple it is hard to see how it could be really screwed up - the FCG is all just soft steel plates held together with pins and circle clips. The 795 receiver makes an AK receiver look like a rocket ship next to a bicycle.

The receiver might be simple, but trust me, you don't wanna get stuck putting that FCG back together. I disassembled mine to stone the contact points and it took the help of two other people to hold everything in place for reassembly.

 

[Inebriated]

My 795 eats it all. Federal bulk, Winchester bulk, all sorts of CCI flavors, even that Remington brass and lead they try to pass off as ammunition.

 

[Krzyshng]

I have two examples and both are recent manufacture from Remlin. With factory mags they choke quite frequently (1 in every 25 shots give or take) with the Remington Golden bullets. Usually this happens as a fail to fully eject but catastrophically so as the double feed causes the bolt to get stuck and I need a knife or tool to pry the casing out.

They digest the Federal bulk packs from Walmart pretty well, have had a few hiccups but nothing significant. I grab these when I can't find the Blazer But the rifles function best with the Blazer lead nose bulk packs. Have literally had no problems through several thousand round of that stuff.

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