Landlocked Pirate
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I have both but I prefer the Marlin.
Ruger 10/22 -OR- Marlin Model 60
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Depends on what you want....
For "take it out of the box and blaze away", the Marlin 60...
If you like to 'customize' your guns, the Ruger 10/22 is very much like the Chevy Small Block V8 Engine...can run it from factory-box-stock to "un-limited" or anywhere in between.
I currently have a 10/22 and an OLD Marlin 99 with the 17-round tube magazine, and I like them both. My Marlin 99 was a $20 pawn-shop-rescue-special. still shoots very well.
For "take it out of the box and blaze away", the Marlin 60...
If you like to 'customize' your guns, the Ruger 10/22 is very much like the Chevy Small Block V8 Engine...can run it from factory-box-stock to "un-limited" or anywhere in between.
I currently have a 10/22 and an OLD Marlin 99 with the 17-round tube magazine, and I like them both. My Marlin 99 was a $20 pawn-shop-rescue-special. still shoots very well.
toivo
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Exactly. Spee-D-Loader has 8 chambers, each holding 15 rounds. (Marlin tube holds 14, so 8x14 in the Spee-D-Loader.) Do the math:
One Spee-D-Loader @ $19.99 = 112 rounds
Ten OE Ruger mags @ $139.95 = 100 rounds
Four high-caps for Ruger @ $116 = 100 rounds
Two super-high-caps for Ruger @ $159.94 = 100 rounds
It might be slightly faster to swap box mags than to load the tube from a Spee-D-Loader, but only by a few seconds. The other side of that coin is that it's much easier to load a Spee-D-Loader than it is to load a Ruger magazine.
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