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...







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...

Bob

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

..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...

Bob

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

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

That sure is purdy! Good find.

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

so does Bob......

nothing wrong with looking purdy while being used!

+ 6.02e^23

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...

Bob

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.

Beautiful rifle.... Good find..

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...

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.

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...

you suck.

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...

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.

I remember saving paper route money for months to buy a new 39A Golden Mountie from Gibson's Discount Store in 1968. I killed a carload of gophers with that gun during the summers of Huckleberry Finn as I spent those summers all over Horse Butte, near West Yellowstone, MT.

Few guns excited me as much as that Marlin, and now it sits in the back of the safe, unfired for decades...

My first rifle was a 39A Golden with the pistol grip stock and 24" barrel...it was a rabbit and squirrel killin' machine. That was 1966...

Shot all three of the Carbines today but forgot to take any pics... Sights on #3 will need to be changed out as neither the front nor rear are original and the rear sight can't go low enough..at the bottom step of the elevator it is still 6" high at 50 yards...

Bob, were those Super-X you were shooting the round nose HVA or the hollow points?

...round nose. Still have a couple of cases left over from the Clinton scare in the 1990s...

I'm gonna try some of those out. They're supposed to be around 1400 fps.

don't know how I missed this thread. I got my Golden Mountie a few years back. Traded for it, with a fellow member. He got my straight stock Marlin 336 in .35 Remington, a fine shooter, and in great shape. I got his Marlin 39A. I have never regreted the trade, and just love the .22 lever rifle.
The scope on mine is a Leupold Rimfire 2-7X. Bought it from Rick.

Pics of the #3 rifle...











Very clean except for some scratches at the end of the barrel and the rear sight is not original. But it shoots up to Marlin standards...

Bob

I bought my Mountie in 1966 from Dawson's Small Arms of the World in Annandale, VA for (I think) $89.95. I still have it, saving it for my grandson who is almost ready for it. I doubt if it has been fired over 100 times.

Here's a neat trick for a trigger stop. Drill and tap a set screw as shown.

DF

Nicely done and it looks to be very well hidden. What size tap did you use?

Very nice Marlin!

Ended up selling the #3 rifle and bought a 70s vintage Article II which is basically a Mountie with an octagon barrel. Only thing I don't like about it is the brass curved buttplate on the stock...otherwise a very good shooter...

Bob

I would find a 6x compact....would be proportional, a 4x33 would not be bad, same size.

Nice rifle, that dog will shoot Like that config myself better than the standard models....

Though a buddy had an old 39A I enjoyed - borrowing. Miss the 9422 I had....yep. But want a BL22 as they are handy.

May have to keep an eye out for one of these, but you found a one off...congrats and enjoy.

Found a deal on a '77 39A I couldn't pass up. Hardly shot and extremely well cared for. One little ding in the forearm that I may be able to iron out, but I'm not worried about it. Other than that, pristine. Have never handled a tube fed .22 where the tube worked this smooth.

Well, here she is.

I have not seen that number since high school chemistry in 1966.

Trump with wings......?

Since my last post ended up selling off the last standard Carbine and the Article II...now just have the one with the nice stock... Been down sizing lately and sold off five other .22 rifles and two senterfires...

Bob