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Always thought the 60s vintage Carbine was the best balanced of all the 39s...for me it comes up like a straight gripped English shotgun.

My first real gun was a 39A rifle back in 1966...took till 2014 to find a decent deal on a decent Carbine...today I bought a second.

Apparently this one was personalized by someone... AA wood, engraved and deep reblue...shoots like a dream...

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Even though the eyes are fading a little, if I could see it at 50 yards it ended up with a bullet hole in it...

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nice wood.... but maybe you could grind the engraving off, and make it purty?.....grin

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..I can live with it as it isn't scratched up too badly....

Going to see if one of the guys at the shop where I bought it will call the owner and see if there is any history with the gun... The wood is beyond the best I have seen on any 39...

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oh how i would love to own that one!
I'd settle for shooting it though!


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Wow. You found the homecoming queen there. My 39a's look like they need reconstructive surgery compared to yours.



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That sure is purdy! Good find.


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I don't buy guns to loook at and be purdy, I buy them to use them.


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so does Bob......

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nothing wrong with looking purdy while being used!


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Originally Posted by JimHnSTL
nothing wrong with looking purdy while being used!

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Was in the shop where I bought it this last week. Story was the old man who owned the gun passed away two years ago. When the grandson was cleaning out the house a couple of months ago he found it in a closet and just brought it to the shop on consignment to get rid of it...

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That's a damned shame that the kid has no appreciation.

Makes me glad my oldest likes to hunt, shoot fish, and hang out in the outdoors.

Beauty of a 39 Bob.

The 39, without question is my personal all time favorite rimfire, by a wide margin. A buddy used to complain about me having a few different rimfire rifles, but every time we go bunny shooting, I take the Marlin Mountie.

Of course this was coming from a guy who owned a few shotguns, but his old Ithica riot gun was the only one he ever used. smile


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Beautiful rifle.... Good find..


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Thanks guys...

Put a very old Bushnell 3/4" tube scope on board to test accuracy...the gun IS accurate... Scope is not that clear and the friction adjustments move the POI a lot when any adjustment is made...but I got it close and now to look for a better scope that is trim like the rifle...

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Just looked at a 39A at my LGS the owner had just picked up not more than a half an hour ago on my way home from work! It was in decent shape, but nowhere near this one.

Nice looking rifle and looks like it shoots pretty damn good, too.


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Update... Pulled the Bushnell scope off and put a Leupold 1.5-5 VXIII on. Only problem is that the hammer is so close to the scope bell I can't put a hammer extension on it...but I think the gun will shoot better with better optics...and...

Friend is up visiting for the week. Went shooting today and then to LL Bean in Freeport, Maine...and they had...another very nice 1964 vintage 39 Carbine...and it is now in the gunsafe...pics to come...


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Now Don.....

If anyone is looking for a nice Carbine here is one on GB...if it stays at this it will be a bargain... They have been bringing a grand lately and the last on on GB sold for $1400 about two weeks ago....

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=512902932


http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=509451679



Going to take the Carbines out today to shoot... In looking at the serial numbers they are a 1962/63/64...


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Alex, I'll take 'Mounties' for $400.....

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Originally Posted by huntsman22
Alex, I'll take 'Mounties' for $400.....



Don, so would I, but around here "Mounties" run more like $600, if you ever see one for sale.


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