A couple of old girls plinking.
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:16 pm
Yeah, me and my Marlin Model 38 pump 22 are a couple of old girls, but as plinkers go, we still got it. How old? As for my age, well, it's up there. As for the Marlin, best I can tell is was made in the mid 1920s, so it probably celebrates its 100th birthday pretty soon. How's that for old?
I really love this old girl of a Marlin. Once you start shooting, it gets hard to stop. You just want to keep pumping and shooting and shooting. The action is a very short throw, about the same as my little BL-22 lever 22, but working the Marlin is effortless. Just a flick of the wrist and shoot, again, the gun staying on target the whole time.
Yeah, that's my homemade scout scope rig via a Skinner barrel scope mount and an old 2x Tasco pistol scope. The 2x scope gives me just enough magnification and brightness to see my spinners at 25 yards, but without enough weight to alter the feel and balance of the old Marlin.
Got the scope sighted in this morning. Here's one of the targets. That group up and left out of the bull is 4 shots. Just wanted to see how the Marlin could group and, yeah, she's still got it (the gun). Finished sighting in on another target, then went 10 in a row on steel.
I shoot CCI Quiets with the Marlin and with that 24, barrel, yeah, the Marlin is very quiet. Bullets hitting steel are louder than the shot.
It's hard to explain just how special it is to be shooting a 100 year old 22. Such a fine old gun. They really don't make them like this anymore and I doubt they ever will, again. I think Annie would have loved this one. I sure do.
I really love this old girl of a Marlin. Once you start shooting, it gets hard to stop. You just want to keep pumping and shooting and shooting. The action is a very short throw, about the same as my little BL-22 lever 22, but working the Marlin is effortless. Just a flick of the wrist and shoot, again, the gun staying on target the whole time.
Yeah, that's my homemade scout scope rig via a Skinner barrel scope mount and an old 2x Tasco pistol scope. The 2x scope gives me just enough magnification and brightness to see my spinners at 25 yards, but without enough weight to alter the feel and balance of the old Marlin.
Got the scope sighted in this morning. Here's one of the targets. That group up and left out of the bull is 4 shots. Just wanted to see how the Marlin could group and, yeah, she's still got it (the gun). Finished sighting in on another target, then went 10 in a row on steel.
I shoot CCI Quiets with the Marlin and with that 24, barrel, yeah, the Marlin is very quiet. Bullets hitting steel are louder than the shot.
It's hard to explain just how special it is to be shooting a 100 year old 22. Such a fine old gun. They really don't make them like this anymore and I doubt they ever will, again. I think Annie would have loved this one. I sure do.