Reasonable and Fair Price - Glenfield Model 60

Widowed lady friend want to sell a Glenfield Model 60.
Average condition - one bright spot froward from stock under barrel. Size of Abe's head on a penny.

Simmons 3/4 fixed power scope. (forgot to check magnification)

Having problem logging in to GunBroker.
Can not check their recent sales, So posting here.

TIA.

Bekeart

I'm thinking $150.
I remember them being on sale for $29.

A friend of mine bought one a few months back with a case but no
scope. Very good condition. Paid $50.00

The Glenfield was the less expensive version of the Marlin Model 99 iirc. A very common rifle, sold in huge numbers it was a staple of places like K-Mart and other discount stores. I still see them regularly at gun shows, yard sales, flea markets and the used rack of many gun shops. In the current market I would figure a fair value would be somewhere in the $140 to $180 range for a clean one.

Took one on trade at a gun show and after three more shows I finally sold for 75 bucks. It was nice condition but they are low end what I call a farm or truck gun.

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I think these days it's closer to $175 for average condition. ...Soon to be $200.

The one I own is a solid shooter. But it ain't pretty to anyone but me. I'd ask at least $150 for it. ...Probably a few bucks more.

If the action slides good, I'd go $100-$150 for it! BTW... I've got one and it shoot's Great with CCI Mini Mags and accurate as all get out!!

Pics would help.

IIRC the later ones were sold as Marlin 60's and had a slightly shorter tube mag, probably due to some States stupidity regarding guns. I have one of those.

I paid $100 bucks for mine in very good condition, but that was pre-covid.

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I sold one this past spring for $180.

John

I agree $150 is probably average current value.
Give the widow friend $200 and enjoy your new rifle.

I have two and both in real nice condition. One is Oak leaf stamped checkering. They function well and are accurate. I actually like them better than a stock 10/22. I wouldn't sell either of them for $150....
My newest still had the stickers on the stock with all the warning labels, etc. It was free. The older was $100, but it also came with a near new Marlin 780 mag fed bolt action that the owner forgot they had but threw in!

Did the search for you.

In the last 30 days, the least expensive comparable gun (scoped) went for $127, the most expensive $329, and without doing the math I'd guess the median price at about $200. One nice, unscoped one sold for $470!

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Alan
SWCA LM 2023, SWHF 220

Hard to believe these 22s are going for so much lately. Sign of the times I guess. I would not guess not more than $100. At least ya got a wood stock back then.

The Glenfield 60 was the MArlin 99 as Desi pointed out.
Glenfield had a hardwood stock and a few differences in sights, adornments, etc. But the basic action is the same.

When Marlin closed out the Glenfield name altogether, they took the Model 60 name and attached it to the MArlin Model 99 and dumped the 99 designation as the Model 60 sold way more than the Model 99 had over the yrs.

The Glenfield 60 and Marlin 99 and any of the house brand made at the same time during the late 60's and into the early to mid 70's suffer from the weak feed throat that gave them lots of problems.
A two piece sintered metal productuct, rivited together that included a cast in place ejector point. That ejector wore out very quickly. Plus the feed rails in the block did as well.
The carrier wore a groove in the feed throat and tilted to the left as it wore.
That pushed the new round it was feeding over to the right as it came up from the feed throat to the chamber. The new round will then be pushed off the face of the bolt and fall out of the ejection port before it can be chambered.
Another sign of a bad/ worn out Feed Throat.

Those sintered metal feed throats were vendor provided and we used to get them by the barrel full.
We needed that many just to get the rifles out the door. Some wouldn't pass the range for FT Eject as a brand new rifle. The ejector point was already worn off during proof and 10rd function fire.

A very tough to find part now.
They were later replaced with first a redesign of the ejector using the end of the carrier spring as the ejector. Then a new feed throat altogether to elliminate the wear problems.

Lots of info on the Marlin .22 forums.
I think some have found a way to fit a new style feed throat into the older rifles.
I just don't see the rifles as that much of a prize to monkey around with.
Maybe I just saw too many of them when they weren't at their best.

The recoil buffers crack and disintegrate also.
Replacements are available aftermarket.
Marlin used to sell them as well. But they didn't last any better than the orig's. Plastic that age hardened rather quickly.

Don't take the 'action' apart after removing from the alloy frame w/o first capturing the mainspring & follower with a paperclip wire or similar and releasing and holding the mainspring. Much the same as a Ruger SA revolver disassembly procedure.
Parts will go flying...

2152hq pretty much covered the wear issues on the Marlin/Glenfield series in his post. I have seen a several of them exhibiting those problems over the years. I am surprised he reported guns being worn to the point of unreliability during proof and test firing. Normally when I encountered problems with these rifles the guns in question showed signs of a lot of use. After getting a couple malfunctioning used ones in the shop we got in the habit of always checking them for function before putting them out for sale. The vast majority were fine but we did get the occasional problem child and everyone was told to inspect them thoroughly if someone brought one in for sale or trade.

The price we offered was based on how the gun looked and if it showed a lot of wear or was extremely dirty it was, of course, a lot lower. I did replace the worn out parts in a couple that were nice enough otherwise to be worth fixing. Numrich had the new style parts available as a kit for a while to replace the older style. Don't know if they still do, haven't messed with one in a while. Still, most of the ones I handled back then were fine and if I were offered one today I would look at the feed block and if it looked good buy it (unless they wanted a crazy price of course LOL).

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Her pride would not let her take a cash donation.


After reading about some having problem feeding,
I will do a quick function check.
Five rested shots at a target.
One magazine fired in three shot bursts.

It was that cast in place Ejector in the 2 piece Sintered Metal feed throat that they were using at that time (approx 68 to 72) that caused the failures of the rifles while still in the range.

The tiny cast surface just barely was able to reach out far enough from the feed throat to engage the base of the .22 case as it was being held on the bolt and kick the case out of the rifle.

Some not enough to last even a few rounds before the guns would no longer eject.
Many of the new production at that time would work and go out the door.
But we would get pallet fulls of the rifles back in Warranty Returns from big retailers.
These were customer returns of new purchases they were disatisfied with for one reason or another and another rifle was simply exchanaged and given to the customer.
The 'bad rifle' then sent back to Marlin for credit.

There we were supposed to repair them and then the were being re-done as needed and re-boxed and off again to the general market and being resold. I don't recall if they were resold as New,,or Re-serviced,,or what exactly.
They were called 'Turn Arounds' at the factory.

We did this with the Model 80 & 81 bolt action .22's as well.

The number of Model 99/60 .22 semiauto rifles in this program was overwelming.
Pallets and pallets of them from all sources.
Way too many to keep up with.
The main return complaint was 'Fail to Eject'.

The issue was that Feed Throat and a quick visual check would tell you that the cast Ejector point was worn away.
Many of the rifles were new looking. Some not. They were used after all and like any used product, some customers can put an awful lot of wear on something in short order!

So at first were would strip the guns down completely and rebuild them.
Alloy frames & trigger guards got a new 'Paint Job'.,,,spray paint literally.

We actually got some returns that were pre68 (this was already early 70's). The pre 68's didn't have Ser#'s on them as that was they they were made in that era.
Since these were going to be resold, we had to hand stamp a new Marlin issued ser# on the upper front left side of the frame on those. A log book gave us the proper #'s and checked off each used as we went along.

Steel parts went over to the Finishing room for re-polish and re-bluing.
Wood went to the Wood Room for re-sanding and re-finishing with the rest of production.

We (Repair Dept) reassembled these turn-around guns.
They then went next door for another trip thru the Range for Proof, Function and Targeting.

If they made it,,they went down to Packing.
If they didn't,,a big cart of 30 of out TurnArounds came back pushed by a smiling faced Range emloyee,,,they always seemed to enjoy doing that!

Since we were reassembling using the same poor quality feed throat that caused most of the issues (not all of course) in the first place, many of our redone rifles were no better,,just maybe looked better than when we took them off the pallets.

With all that work and time, the Front Office decided to scrap the rebuild program and simply strip the returned rifles for parts.
The parts would be sent to the same Dept's for re-finishing, but then the parts would be used to on the Line in regular assembly.
Great idea.

The complaints from the Line Workers were many and loud.
Bad parts, mixed variations of parts in the same lot, poor quality markings on bbls after repolishing and blue, stuff like that.

So the next idea was to simply destroy the returned rifles,,no saving anything.
That was our 'if you have some time on your hands' job.

Save nothing. Hundreds and hundreds of semi-auto and boltaction .22 rifles simply torn apart from their stocks. The bbls cut,,then that took too long to do.,, The recv'rs were cut or hammered shut. The alloy simply broke.
Nothing was saved. Not even box magazines from the bolt action .22's, scopes, slings,,nothing. Junk it all.
Cheaper to throw away than to reclaim anything.

It all ended up in the North Haven, Ct dump.
A local enterprizing soul used to scout the dump and take it all home with him.
That and much more from the factory trash that Marlin simply dumped there.
He was making Marlin firearms in his garage and selling them.
....But that's another story.

Just a good woods gun and ammo will far exceed value. Pay what you want and is fair to her with the understanding that it doesn't matter. We are not talking big dollars here but an awful lot of utility. Enjoy.

How many of us grew up and this was the standard? I bet a lot...

North of $250, you are being overly kind and that is OK too. Best, TH.

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Rather be outdoors

I had know idea of the price on these now.
I have one I never shot that still has the hang tag and maybe the box.
Is $175 too much?

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I told you not to use Lifebuoy

That’s the official murder weapon of any large Western US Indian reservation!

I’d go $150 just for nostalgia’s sake.

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“What you got, ain’t new.”

I bought a Marlin (60?) .22 auto with a black plastic stock a couple of years ago for $200. I shot a couple of boxes of shells and it did ok. I'll use it for my geezer beside gun when the 30-30 get to be too much. Something will have too be tough to walk into 14 .22LRs. Larry

I hold model 39’s in very high regard. The model 60 doesn’t seem to be near as nice. The 10/22 is much more reliable.