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What's this unsightly knob on the right side of some Marlin lever actions - almost always 22LR?
 

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CLP,

That is the take down screw. Loosen the screw and the rifle, in this case a Marlin 39A will neatly separate. The original take down rifle.....
 
"Unsightly knob?"

Hush your mouth, mister!

That's a beauty mark signifying the epic practicality of "take down" in storage, packing and above all; free breech cleaning on a lever gun.

The nerve of you!


OK, it is a little off putting in the end.:D



Todd.
 
No offense meant. Just picked up a couple of vintage lever actions and maybe considering another. I saw that feature and didn't know what it was. The only take down mechanism I'm familiar with is at the one at the end of the magazine tube.
 
CLP said:
No offense meant. Just picked up a couple of vintage lever actions and maybe considering another. I saw that feature and didn't know what it was. The only take down mechanism I'm familiar with is at the one at the end of the magazine tube.
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Aw hell, no one would take offense - it's a rather ugly little knob... just havin' fun with the thread and I like to point out the the single greatest aspect of a take-down lever is free access to the breech.

Todd.
 
I grew up shooting a Marlin like that and whether or not the take-down knob is unsightly, they are IMHO, the best .22 LR ever made...many a ground squirrel on my dad's ranch fell prey to my brother and I with our Marlins...still have 'em.
 
And, I might (slightly off topic) add that I have a couple of old pump 22's with the same sort of beauty mark. One is a gorgeous, mint Winchester .22 Short Gallery gun, and easily the most valuable thing in my humble little collection.
 
so are they found/used on any non-rimfire lever action rifles?
 
They are also found on the left side of every Winchester 1890, 1906, Model 62, and 62A .22 pump.

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Unscrew it and the rifles separate into two parts for cleaning or transport.

It's a very useful feature sadly lacking in today's .22 rifles.

rc
 
The Remington model 14 centerfire pump action rifle had a takedown screw similar to the Marlin model 39A.
 
Years ago when I was in Prepress at Kingsport Press, we did a Cindy Crawford book. I told the art department guy that while he was out I fixed the photos before sending them to make printing plates: I removed that unsightly mole off her lip. (I was pranking him.) He was not amused. That was her trademark beauty mark.

Same deal I guess with my Marlin 39A Mountie and Taurus Model 72 both with takedown screws. It's an unsightly feature that has become a classic beauty mark. I'll admit when I saw my first Marlin 39 the takedown screw looked odd to me. It had a use but it still looked odd.

In my repro of the 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog, the takedown screw knob is visible (w/o coin slot) on the Marlin Model 1891 leveraction in .32 rimfire/centerfire convertible, and on the Marlin Model 1892 leveraction in .22 short, long, longrifle. The Model 1892 evolved into the Model 1897 which with slight changes became the Model 39.
 
Fella's;

The Marlin rimfires that have the take-down knob are: the 39A, the Mountie, and the TDS. All are variants of the original 39 design.

900F
 
This knob is on a Remington model 25 in 25-20. Guess what it does! You will find the same knobs on all of the Pederson designed Remington pump rifles the 12 & 121, the 25, and the 14 & 141s.
 

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Really? A buddy of mine has an 1892 Marlin in .32 short that his brother found in the trunk of an old car he bought from a farmer. It has that knob on the side plate and all we ever figured out was it was for cleaning/servicing access. Sure don't remember that old rifle being a "take down" type.

But I bet that rifle hasn't seen daylight in 30 years. I asked him recently if he still had it, "yeah, probably here somewhere". Wanna sell it? "Nah, better not....."
 
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