That's cool, learn something new every day. That is the longest continually produced rifle in history having been offered for over 100 years with the same basic specs. :smokin:
I might touch the firing pin with some filler rod tomorrow, but I'm gonna fully disassemble and polish the crap out of all the rough parts, slick the slide and internals, clean the bore, and consider sanding the wood.
Maybe the furniture just needs some love and oil. Can you use linseed over finished wood? Never had my hands on the stuff...
I do want the barrel reblued along with the mag tube but not new, pretty, and shiny.
Polish, polishing, polished..... wow what a difference! The action is slick like fresh owl sheeit. Trigger pulled 1.5lbs with a little more fine tuning. Sonofabisch will "Rifleman" like a champ now!
Took apart and decided to polish the following areas.
And trigger work plus how to get the hammer out:
Drop the hammer.
Remove the spring retainer by pushing it out to one side.
Remove spring.
Remove screw.
Slide spring rod over the side while you bring the hammer out of the top.
Using a fine flat mill file, reshape the sear area. I brought the angle forward some by gently running the file across it in the non cutting motion. I wiped it with oil but I don't know if it helped with the polishing
I like it a lot. Everything from Longshot to Retumbo meters out great. Sometimes I'm waiting on it, sometimes its waiting on me... just depends on load and powder.
We have a 1954 Marlin 39A. I love it! It has a little slop in the lever as well, and needs a new buttplate. I have had trouble finding the exact one to replace it with. I want the correct one. It's a sentimental rifle for the wife, and wants it back the way it should be.
After much confusion and thought, I think I'm gonna replace the buttpad, firing pin, oil it up and call it good. I might look at buying another loop and cutting/fitting/welding it to mine, but that's for later. I shot a few hundred rounds thru it and I really like it as is. I like the worn look of it and I think if I had it blue'd, I'd be looking at a gun that I might not want to carry in the truck as much.
Then again, this might be what I need to get me started on bluing my own stuff. At any rate, I can't do shit right now, as I'm in the GOM and don't have a valid card to order anything with. (GCC thread about debit card fraud)
Luv 39As I've got my dad's 1951 version ( one of only two years where you could get the pistol grip knob factory initialed with your initials. My dad had his initialed).
Another place that has Marlin parts is Bob's Gun Shop About Gun Parts! ...Bob's Gun Parts. Top Page Commercial Super Site. though they are a bit more expensive
IIRC, it's d&t with a skinny mount on it... for sure not pic width. Seems like I have some sections of YHM pic rail somewhere. If it don't work out, I have another gun it can go on.
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