Riomouse911
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This has echos of marksman13’s post about the .30-30.
When I was a kid my Dad would take me shooting in the desert with two .22’s: a Colt Huntsman and a Marlin 39A Golden Mountie. I shot those guns with him for years, and over the decades I have amassed a fair collection of stuff, yet to this day I have never owned either a Huntsman or Golden Mountie. Until now.
My Dad sent me home from Thanksgiving with the 39A and a couple of other firearms as well. The Marlin has an AB 10xxx serial number, which I believe makes it a 1966 vintage rifle. The rifling is Micro Groove, the front sight hood is still there, and it has the JM thumb piece extension on the hammer spur (but it hasn’t ever had a scope mounted). There is a 1/8” scratch near the left side of the muzzle and another tiny one on top of the receiver, other than these minor blemishes it is pretty much spotless.
He also gave me a broken Mohawk Brown Nylon 66 that I may keep as a fixer-upper project, an unfired 40th Anniversary Ruger 10/22 (No box or papers.) and a nice looking but lower-end 20 Ga O/U that I cant figure out who made it (It may be Spanish?).
I took the 39A out and shot a few boxes of Blazer 40 gr offhand with my son. It shot as well for me today as it did when I first fired it nearly 50 years ago.
Sometimes the pieces just fall into place.
Stay safe.
When I was a kid my Dad would take me shooting in the desert with two .22’s: a Colt Huntsman and a Marlin 39A Golden Mountie. I shot those guns with him for years, and over the decades I have amassed a fair collection of stuff, yet to this day I have never owned either a Huntsman or Golden Mountie. Until now.
My Dad sent me home from Thanksgiving with the 39A and a couple of other firearms as well. The Marlin has an AB 10xxx serial number, which I believe makes it a 1966 vintage rifle. The rifling is Micro Groove, the front sight hood is still there, and it has the JM thumb piece extension on the hammer spur (but it hasn’t ever had a scope mounted). There is a 1/8” scratch near the left side of the muzzle and another tiny one on top of the receiver, other than these minor blemishes it is pretty much spotless.
He also gave me a broken Mohawk Brown Nylon 66 that I may keep as a fixer-upper project, an unfired 40th Anniversary Ruger 10/22 (No box or papers.) and a nice looking but lower-end 20 Ga O/U that I cant figure out who made it (It may be Spanish?).
I took the 39A out and shot a few boxes of Blazer 40 gr offhand with my son. It shot as well for me today as it did when I first fired it nearly 50 years ago.
Sometimes the pieces just fall into place.
Stay safe.
