Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Marlin Model 60's not all that cheap anymore

Just about every kid I knew either had one of the Glenfield 60's or one of the bolt action Glenfield 20's when I was growing up. I remember the 60's being 49.95 and the 20's 44.95 at the Jamesway dept. store and Remington Mohawk .22's were .59 per 50 /5.90 brick.

This Mossberg is a pretty close match to the Marlin 60 and the one I shot was plenty accurate.

Well I have worn out a couple with only around 8 to 10K rounds through them.

What did you wear out ? I know the feed throats wear out and the buffers crack/break over time but both are easily replaceable and fairly cheap. I have several times that many rounds through my 989M2, which is basically a clip fed version of the 60. I think I've replaced the recoil buffer 3 times and the recoil spring once since 1976 and that's it. It still runs and shoots good today and I still use it frequently.

My dad bought me a used Model 60 around 1980 for $50. I put more than 50,000 rounds through that gun in my youth. Wore out 2 feed throats, broke a spring, and wore out the plastic buffer on the action rear - but that was it. I had to deep clean the crud out of the action every brick or so - when shooting the cheap PMC ammo. Remington ammo would run about 2 bricks before it needed cleaned.

They are surprisingly accurate guns.

I bought a new one in 1992 at Walmart for a little less than $100 on sale. Still have them both.

Could have been where I was doing the shooting. Montana near Great Falls has a very fine dust. I was summer fallowing and kept the rifle in the tractor tied in an unzippped guncase for a sheath. Shot 500 rounds a week for 14 weeks. Action sort of wallowed out.

Still have a model 60 " mountain man " commemorative I got as as a kid . Thousands of rounds , countless squirrels , birds. Great guns !

Nice ones are 300-350 here too, which is just bananas to me.

Maybe it has something to do with shooters in mag ban states looking for higher capacity semi autos, and buying up the online Marlin 60's?

My father gave my son one last year from 1982 that had never been fired, he even had an old Bushnell scope that he had bought and never mounted. I picked up a set of rings mounted the scope and was off to the range with my son. After about 10 shots it started acting weird. Got home and discovered the buffer in the back of the receiver had dry rotted and fell apart. Picked up a couple off Ebay and it's run fine ever since.

got worried about not having a model 60 and saw that they are getting pricey, bought one from a friend last week for $140,had the original little scope, new condition, took my 7 year old grandson with me to make the purchase. The fire is lit in him as on the way home he said he wanted one of every gun made.

Too bad that’s not a tube fed gun.

You stole that one.

No matter.

The problem with a tube feed is, like a magazine, it can misfeed or fail to feed. Oftentimes, just changing a magazine in a magazine gun can improve the functionality, a cheap and easy fix. IIRC this particular gun was sold in WalMarts, and elsewhere, for about 100 bucks, in the last few years. No doubt it was a deal of deals.

I was at a friends the other day, hanging in his shop is a red, white and blue 10/22 stock, I bet he would sell it. We were talking about stripping and dying the wood

The prices are because Marlin doesn't exist anymore.

Ruger bought marlin and are not very likely to ever make a competitor model to their flagship 10/22

So, they likely are never going to be produced again.

Boy do I remember the Gibson's Discount Center near me. They had a good supply of weapons and their prices could not be beat. When they announced closing down the store, firearms were sold 50% off. The line to get in the store was so long that most of the firearms were quickly sold out. Not to worry. My former SIL was getting ready to sell his M60, when I made a passing comment that he should hang on to it. He then offered it to me free of charge to which I accepted. It has a 21" barrel and hold open feature. I guess it's capacity is 18 rounds but not sure, as it's been some time since I loaded and fired it. I do remember that I liked it better than my my 10/22 for off-hand shooting. My SIL claimed he had never cleaned it all the years he owned it. So, I cleaned it up and replaced the recoil buffer. It shoots great and is accurate enough with the brands of 22LR I've tried.

Gunshow today and I didn't see any M60 under $350, and that was a beat up bone. Prices ranged from 350 to 550, for a $100 gun.

I bought a wood stock Model 60 new at Academy for $159 in 2017. My brother was with me and said “I ought to get one of those too”. I told him there will come a day when you won’t be able to get one anymore new for that price. He said “eh” and was going to wait.
I’ve only put a couple hundred rounds through it but it’s a great rifle. Much more fieldable than my 10/22 and a better trigger (I have a walmart 10/22 which I am convinced is a factory second).
I have a soft spot for tube fed .22’s so I’m biased.

I'm in NE Canada and I bought a 2014 Marlin-60 Laminate NIB with a Barska 3-9 rimfire scope and CCI-MM x100 for $250 CDN from Orig owner who 'never got around' to shooting . This was in 2017 and $250 CDN = ca $190 USD back then (still close to that). I sold the Barska ($50) and put on a 4-12x40 Tasco ($100) and it's shooting ca 3/4" at 50 yds. I added the white butt spacer and o-ring on takedown screw, too.
PS - These are going for $500+ around here (IF You Can Find one) in laminate. ( $400+ USD - exch = 1.30)
And I had a Glenfield back ca 1975 - ca $50 at K-mart !

First new gun I bought with my own money. Think around 70 bucks from the Holiday Store.

Have to have 8-10k rounds through it.

Have another with a plastic stock and a NIB one at my dads.

Great guns