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woodsrunner
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Found A Strange Rifle In The Closet!
woodsrunner
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A Glenfield Mod. 60 made by Marlin. It's a cheap .22 LR rifle, nothing special by any means, but I have no idea where it came from or how long its been in the closet! It was in a plastic/canvas case with 6-87 marked on it by the manufacturer so I assume that was the date the case was made. This was in my wife's closet that I lined with 1" red cedar in 1991, so it was put there after that date but by whom? Son doesn't know: wife doesn't know: I never saw the darn thing before! :uhm:
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And cpj....! You 'splain to me how Your rifle got in MY wife's bedroom closet, and I MAY send it back :rotflmao:!
:spittingcoffee:
That would have been a very strange stranger in the camp?
Seriously, I have had a couple pop up over the years for the life of me I can't quite remember acquiring but I am sure they did come through trading some how. Could it have come the trade route?
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Dad 5-31-13
Asked my daughter who lives next to us if she had any ideas how it got there. She "thought" she remembers a neighbor lady who lived about a quarter mile away bringing it to the house looking for my wife since I was in Belize working at the time. That had to be during the 1992-93 time frame. So I called the lady who has since moved, and moved in with her girlfriend with whom she practices an "alternate life style", and asked her if she had any memory of the incident. The reply was yes, she had bought the rifle for.. get this.. home defense! And, being very anti-gun and deathly afraid of them, had decided to give it to me out of fear, but knowing that since I had been in the military I would know what to do with it! She came to the house with it...my wife wasn't at home... she left it with my daughter who put it in the backside of the 8X8 walk-in closet and failed to mention it to anyone--she was 15 at the time! That sounds crazy I know, but that's how it happened! So.....I've got a little short rifle with a scope (home defense :roll:) that I will promptly give to my 14 year old Grandson to squirrel hunt with! Funny how life works out! Now, IF I could just find that 1873 trap door that my GGrandfather took away from the Union soldier guarding the polling place in 1874.......
Your losing it....I have been surprised a few times, seeing one and thinking, Oh I forgot about that one, but I have never found one that I don't remember!!! :jester:
Matt
I will fear no evil: For I carry a .308 and not a .270
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I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
So far, all the model 60s I have had were great working shooters, inexpensive yes, cheap ?
Not hardly........
Here is a good question, I do NOT recall any of those model 60 s having last shot hold open, yet the model 60W I have now does !
Am I senile or is this model different????
I will fear no evil: For I carry a .308 and not a .270
???......never seen a tube-fed anything lock open on the last shot...........only box magazine fed. Except a Ruger .44 carbine.
I will fear no evil: For I carry a .308 and not a .270
When it is out of ammo, the bolt stays locked back, this is a model 60W
I found this paragraph:
"Overall, the basic design of the Model 60 never changed much for 25 years until, in 1985; Marlin implemented a “last shot” hold open feature that holds the bolt halfway open after the last round is ejected."