What Would You Do With This Marlin/Glenfield Model 60

[4v50 Gary]

If you want to install the factory original rear sight, stipple the bottom. That'll prevent it from walking.

You may improvise a cheekrest with padded leather. Can you sew? It's not hard to saddle stitch. I'd do snaps to secure it so you can easily remove it if you want to go with iron sights.

 

[DMW1116]

It’s already shimmed into place and zeroed for windage. I don’t want to touch it again unless absolutely necessary. The stock drop on the Marlin works well with the scope.

 

[Old Hobo]

"Re-install and zero the factory sights and shoot it for fun in its original configuration."

Never get rid of any significant item that has sentimental value. Inevitably, you will regret having done so.

I could kick my rear-end from here to eternity for trading a revolver my dad got me for my 17th birthday (Colt .22 LR / .22 mag. Buntline). Here I sit, a retired old man regretting a decision I made when I was in my twenties.

I do have my first .22 rifle (Sears, semi auto). Worst trigger pull of anything I've ever shot. Not getting rid of it. Have had stacks of .22s a whole lot better than that puppy ... but I'm not getting rid of it.

Have my dad's dad's carry revolver (made before 1906-ish). Don't want to run ammo through it (pristine condition), so a bought a near clone (a mere child, made in 1915) to take to the range and fire.

When you get to a certain age and you have the time to just sit down and lay down your burdens for a while, if you have something significant from the past to physically hold in your hands, the memories start streaming back in. Sometimes the memories crash-in like a torrent, memories you thought you had long lost. The tools used by your father and his father and his father's father, when held in your own hands some one hundred years later become keys that open spiritual doors.
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[Varminterror]

When do we get to kill this old-world BS where changing anything about a rifle is “ruining it”?

I grew up with a half-generation older cousin who had inherited his grandfather’s firearms relatively young. They weren’t really his taste, so he never used them, but they were his grandpa’s favorites, so he kept them in the back of his safe. He has since given most of them already to his son, a half-generation younger than I entering his 30’s, who also has no interest in them - and never knew his great grandfather, so he’s not so sentimental about the rifles which only mattered to his father through second-hand sentiment… he’ll sell them, or his son will someday soon.

In my own safe, I have MY first deer rifle, a Ruger M77 MkII, blued and walnut, in 30-06, which I have largely left behind as I simply don’t find use for blued rifles up mountains for big game, and don’t care to use 60grn of powder just to hunt deer. We’ve also inherited my wife’s father’s Rem 700, blued & walnut, in 30-06, both of which had low cost, low quality scopes from their original purchase on top of them - and both of which draw the same disinterest. Leaving both to my son, he’ll likely not have use for either, let alone both - so maybe they rot in the back of his safe like they have been mine, or maybe he decides to keep mine and sell his grandpa’s… or… we can stick a suppressor friendly threaded stainless barrel and a laminate stock on my old rifle and drop a Jard trigger underneath, with a 4-16x44 FFP optic up top, and use it pig hunting on annual trips together, and stick a stainless 31” Rem Varmint countour in 300wm with a new bolt in .532” boltface and a TriggerTech Diamond in a heavy chassis underneath grandpa’s rifle to let him practice shooting it out to 2000yrds - so he and I can make use of both rifles for the next 10-15yrs of my life and next ~45yrs of his life before he’d pass them on to his son - in whatever form they might have taken by then…

So what’s better? Multiple generations finding use of the same rifle, hence building memories on the same rifle, OR, rifles rotting in the back of safes for a generation, and then getting sold off out out of the family out of disinterest?

Especially something so little as changing sights… sheesh… make the rifle useful for you so you can make use of it…

 

[mgmorden]

Mine came in the door with most parts in a bag. After fixing it, great fun gun.

One of the scariest things of my life I took my dad's Hi Standard .22 LR apart to clean it (I was curious) and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to put that thing back together. Thankfully he didn't really care that much, but I had enough sense to put every part in a bag and tie it to the trigger guard.

It was probably 10-12 years later but being a lot more experienced with guns (and after buying a parts diagram from Numrich so I could at least see how everything was supposed to fit together), I put that gun back together again . Even replaced the extractor which had always been broken .

 

[DMW1116]

When do we get to kill this old-world BS where changing anything about a rifle is “ruining it”?

I grew up with a half-generation older cousin who had inherited his grandfather’s firearms relatively young. They weren’t really his taste, so he never used them, but they were his grandpa’s favorites, so he kept them in the back of his safe. He has since given most of them already to his son, a half-generation younger than I entering his 30’s, who also has no interest in them - and never knew his great grandfather, so he’s not so sentimental about the rifles which only mattered to his father through second-hand sentiment… he’ll sell them, or his son will someday soon.

In my own safe, I have MY first deer rifle, a Ruger M77 MkII, blued and walnut, in 30-06, which I have largely left behind as I simply don’t find use for blued rifles up mountains for big game, and don’t care to use 60grn of powder just to hunt deer. We’ve also inherited my wife’s father’s Rem 700, blued & walnut, in 30-06, both of which had low cost, low quality scopes from their original purchase on top of them - and both of which draw the same disinterest. Leaving both to my son, he’ll likely not have use for either, let alone both - so maybe they rot in the back of his safe like they have been mine, or maybe he decides to keep mine and sell his grandpa’s… or… we can stick a suppressor friendly threaded stainless barrel and a laminate stock on my old rifle and drop a Jard trigger underneath, with a 4-16x44 FFP optic up top, and use it pig hunting on annual trips together, and stick a stainless 31” Rem Varmint countour in 300wm with a new bolt in .532” boltface and a TriggerTech Diamond in a heavy chassis underneath grandpa’s rifle to let him practice shooting it out to 2000yrds - so he and I can make use of both rifles for the next 10-15yrs of my life and next ~45yrs of his life before he’d pass them on to his son - in whatever form they might have taken by then…

So what’s better? Multiple generations finding use of the same rifle, hence building memories on the same rifle, OR, rifles rotting in the back of safes for a generation, and then getting sold off out out of the family out of disinterest?

Especially something so little as changing sights… sheesh… make the rifle useful for you so you can make use of it…

Yep I agree completely. I have one of my grandfathers 30-30 chambered 336 Marlins. I don’t know what he used it for but it’s my tinkering rifle. It’s where I started my experiments with cast bullets in rifles and it’s now set up for 95% cast bullet shooting. Hopefully this coming year I’ll start my paper patching loads and it will be there for that too.

As for the 60, I’ll leave it scoped for a bit though I’ll probably switch back to the factory sights periodically. I like to know a rifle like this works as it was sold. It’s also a sleek design with the factory sights. Now that I know I can hit the red on an 8” target that makes it even better.

Reviewing this thread I see my original budget was $10. That’s long gone so I guess a trigger and spring kit are in order as well as a muzzle recrowning to repair any potential damage from its days spotlighting rabbits.