50th aniv. marlin model 60.

[jmarriott]

I have heard a rumor of them at the shot show any one got a link.

I saw the guy from gunblast holding one. Maybe it was the guy from zz-top.

[Purebred Redneck]

I'd at least be interested in seeing what one looked like.
One would guess a special run of walnut stocks maybe
What are they going to go do - slap an emblem on that cheap plywood stock and call it a day? I don't know...has there been any commemoritve remington products the last couple years that might indicate how the marlin gun might look?


Regardless of what it is, it's still a model 60.
It's probably not at all worth the money they are going to ask for it.
From a collector's POV, I wouldn't think it's anything too special unless the run was very very lmited (which it probably won't be).
If you pay 200 bucks for it today and put it away for 20 years unfired, you might be able to get your money back...

[twomoons]

OH boy a tribute to the worlds cheapest gun! Just like a Mc D burger over 10 million sold and counting.

[jmarriott]

I don't think it is a anniversary model I think it is a model 60 DLX. It guess it won't matter as I have looked for the 336 30-30 dlx, the 1894 dlx, and the SBL 1895 models and even on marlins website they have them listed but no distributer on my local shops can even order them in.

Maybe a deep blue and good walnut. Say what you want about the model 60 but it is a good rifle and more accurate than it should be for the price. The JAM_O MATIC issues are easily overcome.

[dovehunter]

Jan 2, 1974 23:34:07 GMT -5 jmarriott said:

...Say what you want about the model 60 but it is a good rifle and more accurate than it should be for the price. The JAM_O MATIC issues are easily overcome.

I would dare say that the Marlin model 60 and its derivatives have probably outsold the Ruger 10/22 and good many other more politically correct 22s. I have a model 989 (one of those derivatives, but clip-fed) that I got for Christmas when I was 15 (I am now going on 64). There's no telling how many thousands of rounds have been through it in all that time and I have never had any problems with it whatsoever. I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of times its jammed over that time. It is certainly as accurate as any other 22 I have owned or shot. Yet people still knock them I sometimes think just because they think they are supposed to. I'll put mine up against any other 22 for durability and dependability.

[Purebred Redneck]

Jan 22, 2010 19:24:48 GMT -5 dovehunter said:

I would dare say that the Marlin model 60 and its derivatives have probably outsold the Ruger 10/22 and good many other

Oh there's no doubt.

Before the Marlin buyout, the only company to sell more guns per year was Remington.
And we all know Marlin only has two products that carried them - the 336 and rimfires.
I think Ruger was 3rd and they had the SP/GP, blackhawk, markII, 10/22, and 77.

[jimiowa]

Obviously a lot of people like them and good for them.
Personally other than my .444, I have never had a marlin longer than it took to trade it to someone who thought more of them than I do.

[Purebred Redneck]

I can't find any information a 60dlx at all...but maybe I'm overlooking it.

The gun Jeff Quinn is holding very well could be the 50th model.
Clearly it's a better stock, front sight hood, gold trigger, and the engraving on the side of the receiver almost looks like "50th anniversary something". It has the right word length for both the 50 (with the "th" slightly higher as expected) and anniversary. The only engraving on the regular 60 is the serial number --- that's not the serial number in that picture.

[jmarriott]

Jimiowa,

I sell almost every model 60 i buy and i have purchased many. They get dirty and misaligned in reassembly and the recoil spring and buffer have a tendency to go bad. I now only buy the old 24 inch versions, mostly with that stupid tree rat on them. I get them as jam-o-matics and fix them up and sell them. (I have been known to give them away to family) I can always make a little on them used or as trade bait.

Marlin has a few rilfes that are classic pass down to the future items. The 1894 series, the model 39a, the 444, and the papoose take down with wood stock. Maybe a guide gun with the ports,

PBR,

You will not find any thing about an anniversary model or DLX even if they update the web site. The 1894 dlx and 336 dlx are listed but non are ever available for sale. I think the XL series of bolts are moving real well on the cheap market and the company is not producing anything special lately. The have a 336 with big loop and lamanate coming and a gbl like the SBL but blue and walnut without the XS rail. They used to do limited tuns at davidsons gallery of guns but I have not checked them.