The itch came back again. Sold all my .22 rifles about 3 years ago along with most of my S&W revolvers and thought I was done. Visiting wife's relatives in Danville,VA and came across a hardly used wood frame 60 (maybe 3yrs old) with a Tasco scope and a Butler Creek sling. This guy operates a part-time gun shop in the basement of his home and deals mostly with word of mouth locals. Was only in there looking for some ammo and left with the rifle for $165 out the door. Not bad after looking at Gunbroker prices and I saved on shipping and FFL fee. Am I done now?

Hi", my name is Tripledipper, and I'm an addict."

That's like trying to give up eating bacon. Just doesn't work. Face it, you are hooked for life.

Look at the bright side, no one ever died from buying and using .22s if they were careful.

I have a mdl 60 with a Tasco scope on it. I use it to dispatch pesky squirrels that are chewing everything plastic around my home plus trying to naw into my attack.

Real good rifle. Enjoy yours.

mt first rifle was a model 60....it lasted 20 years before I traded in the 22 for a Mini 14 223. I got $100 for mine so 165 seems reasonable. Have fun with it. I have fond memories of mine. still have a marlin camp 9 carbine. It still has that maine birch stock with walnut stain that I love

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The M60 has been a huge seller for a reason. It's a fine, reliable rifle, reasonably priced. I've never owned one--I was a 39A guy--but everyone I knew who had one loved it and said it was a great bargain. The ones I shot were very accurate.

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As do I. My first brand new gun was a Model 60 that my dad gave me when I was 12 years old (1962).
Long gone now, I wish I had kept it if for no other reason than sentimentality.
Memory might be failing, but IIRC, my dad paid about $25 for it, brand new.

I bought a new model 60 less than a year ago and it has been a ****. I finally got it to working but it has taken some effort. If I was doing it again I'd get a 10-22.

Wow. Like a couple of you guys, my first 22 was a Model 6o, also given to me by Dad when I was 12. My son has it now.

Congratulations,and glad to see you are back in the game....

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I got a stainless M60 not too long ago that I put a 4 power silver scope on. Mine has been ultra reliable and very accurate and I love plinking with it. Good luck and best wishes to you with yours.

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Dad bought a 60 back in about 1964. I read Marlin on the side and thought it must be for shooting fish. That's how young I was. Old enough to watch the fishing shows where they caught those big marlins that fought like crazy but still too young to shoot a rifle. Dad was a firm believer in starting his kids with shotguns since they wouldn't hit the neighbor's houses - we lived in a remote place. I loved that first Marlin though. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. Silly me. But when I did get to shoot it and learn to shoot with it I learned to love it.

I've had one since about 1982 I think it was. I only had a single shot .22 dad had given me before that. I've put at least 150,000 rounds through that 60 and it still works great. Almost no maintenance required. And plenty accurate.

Since then I've had several more 60's. I'd collect a few and decide I had too many and sell some off. I have 2 now. One is a stainless model I bought in 2008 and I still have the old one. The new one is much more accurate than the old one which is really pretty accurate too. But I shot a sub .5" group at 90 yards with the new one right after I bought it. I put a Nikon scope on it and I have never regretted that for a second. I had a Tasco that came with the old one for a long time. I used it on the rifle but I took it squirrel hunting once and it got knocked off zero in the car and I missed a very easy shot because of that. I was with friends and it made me look incompetent. So I took the scope off and haven't missed it a bit. It wasn't a great scope by any means.

I guess I'll be passing my 60's on to my kids. I will keep both of the ones I have forever unless I get stuck in a home somewhere and I need money bad. Even if that happens the kids will get first crack at them. I have bunch of .22's but I'll always have a fondness for those fish rifles.

I was without a .22 rifle for about 60 years and bought a Marlin 60 just to have something. Sort of liked it, did a KAT (trigger, well known in Marlin circles), then bought a Marlin 989M2 and then for some reason or another, a CZ 452. I seem to be on a trend here and you ought be careful and learn from others. :~))). These things really seem to multiply.

Stu

A few years ago I bought a 60, it was a transition one, it had the long barrel, long magazine tube, and bolt hold open. Never fired it and sold it off.

Bought one about 6 years ago. My first time back with .22 since a teenager. Great reliable rifle. Put a 4X Bushnell scope on it. Accurate. A little tricky to put bolt spring back in when cleaning if you take it out but just take patience. Since then added a M&P 15-22, Marlin 39A and a Remington 572. Had forgotten how much enjoyment a .22 can be. Enjoy!

I prefer the M-795 spin-off. Mine's the stainless one, with black stock. Works fine and is accurate. Has a Butler Creek sling, but no scope.

I have owned several of them, and they are nice rifles, and generally seem a little more accurate than stock Ruger 10/22's.

Back in high school, a buddy had one, and decided to do a "trigger job". It was the nicest shooting full auto .22 rimfire I ever shot...

Larry

That's the best one to own. It has the best features. Wish I could have bought it from you. They sell for higher prices than other 60's if you find someone that knows the difference. I'd pay more for one. Not a lot more but some.

The current Marlin Model 60 Marlin 22rifle was originally the Marlin Model 99 22 rifle.

The Marlin Model 99 came around in 1959.
In 1960 Marlin began marketing the exact same rifle but w/a birch wood stock as the Glenfield Model 60G.
In about 65/66,,the 60G became just the plain Glenfield Model 60.

The two rifles were made at the same time and in a barn full of variations.
Each of the two..Marlin and Glenfield branded had their each separate Model designations. The Glenfield versions always using a hardwood stock as opposed to the Marlins AmWalnut.
Some other small differences like the lack of the gold plated trigger & sling swivels on the Glenfield 60 when intro'd onto the Model 99 Marlin in 1960 as the Marlin 99DL.
No Marlin 'Bullseye' in the Glenfield stock toeline of course.
Sights were slightly different on the two.
Early Glenfields used a onepiece cast Alum frontsight and mag tube band. Later a screw on ramp front sight and separate band.

The mechanisms are the same. Recv's are the same as are the bbls but the Glenfields were not Microgroove IIRC.
Simple mechanisms. They both suffered from very poor feed and ejection problems for a time in the very early 70's. A sintered metal feed throat w/ cast in place ejector stud was just a joke of a part. Many rifles would not even make it through the range in function fire (5rds) let alone targeting (5rds).
A fix using the end of the hammer or lifter spring as the ejector point solved that a bit later on but pallet loads of rifles used to come back for replacement on warranty with that one single issue.

Truth be known, Marlin sold more of the rifles as Glenfield Model 60's than as Marlin Model 99's in all the versions that the two shared through the 60's, 70's and into the 80's.
So, in 1983, Marlin dropped the 'Glenfield' trade name all together from all it's firearms production. But kept the 'Model 60' tag for this particular 22 semi auto rifle.
They renamed the rifle from the Marlin Model 99,,to the 'Marlin Model 60'.

They wanted 'Marlin' of course and they wanted 'Model 60' hoping for the best name recognition to sell the rifle.
I don't know if that really got them anything as their future wasn't too good shortly after that.

But that's the story of the Marlin Model 99 / 60 (Glenfield).

My first Model 60 was the one I bought for my 10 year old sons birthday. Kid size single shot with a least a 12 pound trigger. Got that and a brick of 22LR. Off to the plinking range. He wouldn't leave until he shot the whole brick. Blood was coming out from under his trigger finger nail. Very proud of the kid. He actually took out a whole package of Necco Wafers, one at a time.

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Hmm... So the Marlin dad brought home in the middle 60's was probably not a 60 at all. I was really young at the time and I remember the Marlin name but the model name was probably something that I didn't notice. I do remember it working just like the 60's I've owned for many years. Could be it wasn't a Marlin 60 in name but in design it was.

a model 60 was the first rifle I ever purchased on my own. I think I was 12. Mowed lawns, picked rocks and baled hay all summer to pay for it. I refinished the stock, and then shot it every chance I got. No idea how many rabbits, squirrels, woodchucks and cans I shot with that a thing. Still have it, although I can't recall the last time it came out of the safe and got shot. Now I am going to have to run some rounds through it.

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I too own a Marlin model 60, great gun! Search you tube for model 60 and how to break in or modify and you will come across a very entertaining guy explaining in a 3 or 4 part series on how to "slick" one up. He should be on T.V. cracked me up but also teaches you how to basically take the machine marks out of each internal and make the parts like ice on top of glass. He also explains this can be done by shooting the gun a few hundred thousand times. A must watch for both entertaiment and good information!

One internal part that can break or break down in the 60/99 and you might not realize it is the Bolt Buffer.
The bolt buffer (plastic) in the rear of the action breaks down and cracks quite often on the 99/60.
Just the type of plastic(s) used and age & battering causes them to crack and split into pieces.

That allows the bolt to pound the back of the alloy recv'r pretty hard and also lets the recoil spring collapse to full compression on the coils.
The spring then looses it's full power potential and the bolt flys back with even more energy against the rec'vr.
Some recv'rs used to show up cracked at the back end from it.

Pull the bbl'd action from the wood. Turn the action upside down and look up inside the back portion. You should just be able to see the buffer locked in betw the two side plates of the action assembly.
It'll have some movement available to it when assembled. But many will be cracked and pieces of the white/ yellowish colored plastic material they are cast from may fall from the action or be stuck inside the mechanism.

Replacements are available, aftermarket and factory. Some of the aftermarket are probably better than the older factory part.
Google Marlin Model 99, 60, 70, 75 Buffer.
They are all the same rifle and use the same part.

I've milled out a couple from Delrin for repair jobs. They worked well and didn't crack over time.
Kind of overkill, but I saw how the originals held up,,or rather didn't .

I have a 30 year old 60 with 150,000 rounds through it at least and it still has the original buffer. They are cheap though and easy to replace if you ever need one. The part I've had problems with (due to my own clumsiness) is the recoil spring. They will kink if you aren't careful putting them back in. I've used them with a kink in it for a long time though. Worked just fine. The one thing that will stop them from working right now is the ejector wire. Bend it just a little and you will have feeding issues. But there is a well known way to bend it back to the right position that works great. Use a nickel as a gauge actually in two different places. Once you adjust it back they go back to working perfect.

Before about '74 or so they didn't even have the ejector 'wire'. That's when they had the ejector stud molded right into the left half of the feed throat (sintered metal) and it gave nothing but trouble when they switched vendors for the part in the early 70's.

One of the oldsters in'71 in the Repair Dept came up with the idea to use the opposite end of the carrier torsion spring as the ejector. Laying the spring arm up and into a groove cut into one of the junk feed throats. It worked perfectly after a bit of adjustment and a couple trys at winding the first spring(s). It went over a 100K rds in the Range w/o a problem in ejection.
He had already submitted his idea thru the factorys employee idea/save the company money or time system. It would pay various amts out, some quite substantial for different ideas if they were used.
Many factorys at the time had such programs.

Well the idea was quite substantial in savings,,it saved that rifle.
They were failing to get through the range (10rds) in quantity and coming back on warantees by the truck full.
But Marlin never gave the old gent a dime. Instead they handed him a letter stating that the R&D Dept had already 'considered' the same idea before he came up with his model.,, But thanks anyway.

That never left me,,the way they treated him.
A Marlin employee since before WW2,,worked in the Ct gun industry since 1914 (Winchester), and was working at that time part time passed SS age. Talk about a vault of information,,and just a wonderful guy to work with too.

It's not uncommon for companies to steal ideas from their workers unfortunately. My neice's husband just got fired for developing a great new way of dealing with plastic in the ocean but then talking about it to an outside group that wanted to be sure the actual developer got credit. He was shown the door for doing something great for the world. He had another job practically the same day though. It doesn't always work out that well.

I had a Glenfield that was stolen in the mid 80's. Now I have 2 Marlins in the safe. How did I get so many 22s?

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