Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anybody familiar with the MARLIN model 99's?

yes there barrels are the most acccurate ,but that very hard gritty trigger pull negats a lot of that . the last one i bought a few years ago was about 8 pounds ,tired my finger shooting it ,had to buy a trigger off of rimfire central to make it shootable ,had about 4 mod-60's .past 45 years .everytime i get rid of one ,i always seem to buy another ,. but it works better for me than a ruger 10-22

Back in the Sixties a friend got a Ruger 10-22 for Christmas I received a Marlin....only advantage was his was magazine feed mine was tube feed....we shot 100,000's of rounds threw those guns and we both still have them....well he lost several magazines but the Marlin kept its tube to this day.....

Very similar to the Glenfield m75.

back in 1979 , as a teenager a friend wanted to sell me his marlin mod 99M-1 with clip i loved it because it looked like an M-1 carbine .Dad would not let me buy it ,, i was mad did know it but he had just layed away a new marlin mod.60 for me for Christmas ,to upgrade from my ithaca lever action single shot ..still wish i had been able to buy that

Had a tube fed 99M1 in the 70's.

Wish I had it back!

2020 when the Covid shutdown hit black rifles were flying off the racks, the local Academy was cleaned out, except for a single Marlin Mod 60, blued/wood stock. No one was interested, tho a .22 rifle certainly has a role.

They shortened the Mod 60 at one point IIRC to comply with NJ magazine capacity laws so now it’s a shorter rifle, holds 14 rounds in the tube magazine. I like this new, shorter version better than the originals.

I like Marlin tube mags, but their seven-round clips mags are just irritating.

Picked it up based on yall's recommendations, nice shooting little rifle. Thanks guys.

Great. If it starts acting up, and you think it needs a serious cleaning, DO NOT take it apart!! They don’t go back together easily, like a 10/22. Simply take the stock off, get you an aerosol can of Gun Scrubber, or something similar, and hose out the action with it.

Solid advice there. Thanks Fburg

Nice snag, I run across the m1 from time to time in my lgs, usually bring between 350-400 if nice. I have the standard 99. Store I found it in I guess thought it was equivalent to a common model 60 and had it priced for 100. I bought it.

My Uncle, who was only 6 years older than me had one. I had the Model 60. Both great guns. Super reliable and very accurate too. No telling how many rabbits, skunks, bullfrogs and snapping turtles we killed with them at the Ranch.

I put one up on consignment at my LGS a week back. It has a 3/4” Weaver scope on it. Told the shop to ask $350.