Want to buy backup parts for my Marlin 39. Which parts?

[Tycer]

Want to buy backup parts for my Marlin 39 Mountie. Which parts?

It works flawlessly now, but I want my great grandkids to be shootin it.

[Jeff Quinn]

You will most likely never break or wear out a part. However, you might lose one, so buying an extra of all the little small parts and springs would be a good idea.

[Pete44ru]

A second Mountie.

[jnyork]

A cartridge guide spring, a cartridge cutoff, an ejector assembly and an extractor, should be all you will ever need and probably wont need those.

[ceb]

An extra firing pin, I have had one break.

[gamekeeper]

A spare firing pin would be on my list if I still had my Mountie!

[jdad]

The only thing I have worn out was the lever return spring and ejector spring. It takes tens of thousands of rounds to wear something out on a 39A.

[Doc Hudson]

Tycer,

I've had my Marlin Golden Model 39A since the Summer of 1978. I've no idea how many tens of thousands of rounds I've fired through it. I've yet to replace any parts.

The dealer I bought it from told me that in all the years he'd been selling Marlin M-39's he'd made exactly one repair due to broken parts. That single repair occurred back in the early 1960's when The Rifleman was one of the hottest shows on TV. Seems a young fellow had a yen to shoot as fast as Lucas McCain. In less than a month, he and his best friend bought and shot over $100.00 worth of ammo, at the time ammo was 25 cents per box. So those boys ripped off over 20,000 rounds of ammo in a month. They managed to break the firing pin.

So buy a firing pin, an extractor, magazine spring, and perhaps an ejector. Put them away carefully and you will probably forget you have them before you need them.