took home a two-digit 39 Century Ltd today!

[MacEntyre]

I just dropped by to show folks what I found at the gun show today...

An apparently unfired Marlin 39 Century Ltd with a two digit serial number!

I traded a S&W beater revolver and an old Mossberg 22magnum rifle for it.


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[86er]

Very nice rifle!

[1894c]

very nice...good trade... :)

[MacEntyre]

It looks like the receiver is snake bit for a receiver peep sight... but Skinner brass would look good on this rifle.

For folks who have a 39, what peep sights do you use?

- MacEntyre

[mod71alaska]

Congrats! Good trade for a beautiful rifle!

[Grizz]

that's a beauty. the left side of the receiver is tapped for a receiver sight. I took mine off and put a bullseye barrel sight on. it seems to work better for the stage my eyesight is in.

[MacEntyre]

I'm going to try a Marbles bullseye sight... it's inexpensive, and helps retain the slim nature of the 39...

...which was fired for the first time ever this afternoon. It's first shot took down a squirrel!

[Borregos]

Nice one

[Hobie]

It looks like the receiver is snake bit for a receiver peep sight... but Skinner brass would look good on this rifle.

For folks who have a 39, what peep sights do you use?

- MacEntyre

Williams FP

[spaceman spiff]

cool


spaceman

[gamekeeper]

Congrats! Good trade for a beautiful rifle!

+ 1....

[MacEntyre]

Here's a couple of pictures of my brother shooting our father's Marlin Mountie in the '60s.
One reason I wanted a 39 Century Ltd was because dad sold his... or maybe it was stolen... I forget.

Anyway, just assumin' you'uns is interested in old pics of old Marlins in use.



P.S. This young marksman now flies 777s to Shanghai every week.