Cheaper semi with bolt hold on last round?

I had a Marlin 795, but the factory 7 & 10 shot steel magazines were iffy............feed lips needed tweaking.

Now, I have a Marlin 60. It's for target practice, so I don't mind not having a detachable mag. I.e.: I'll empty it, by shooting it :)
 
I own 2 Marlin 60's. Both have tube mags (which I personally love, but not everyone does) and they are as accurate as any semi .22 I've ever owned. They are reliable and have the bolt hold-open after the last shot. Cheap too. What's not to love. After losing 2 detachable mags on other .22's WHILE OUT HUNTING, which meant GO HOME, I now appreciate and love tube mags. Hard to lose an attached tube (which also holds 15 rounds)
 
sgt.rock said:
I own 2 Marlin 60's. Both have tube mags (which I personally love, but not everyone does) and they are as accurate as any semi .22 I've ever owned. They are reliable and have the bolt hold-open after the last shot. Cheap too. What's not to love. After losing 2 detachable mags on other .22's WHILE OUT HUNTING, which meant GO HOME, I now appreciate and love tube mags. Hard to lose an attached tube (which also holds 15 rounds)
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"knock on wood"...I've yet to lose a mag, but I have hated loading tube mags hundreds of times. :) I will give the 60s this~nicer, classic-looking rifles than the 795s. Not switching to one any time soon though.
 
Mossberg plinkster. Cheep, holds open on last shot, and can be locked open before removing clip. Wife has one, and it shoots amazingly well with a cheap red-dot. Factory plastic sights are crap.
 
Meroh said:
Mossberg plinkster. Cheep, holds open on last shot, and can be locked open before removing clip. Wife has one, and it shoots amazingly well with a cheap red-dot. Factory plastic sights are crap.
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Definitely not. My buddy has one and I don't like it. Another buddy has a 10/22, don't really like that either...

Does anyone happen to know if older mossbergs like the 152 have last round bolt hold?
 
I have had 10-22's, they went away pretty fast as I found them clumsy to work with, and the thins I wanted to fix with all of the aftermarket goodies were pretty pricey. so I sold it and another gun and picked up a T/C semiauto (R-55 benchmark) an have never looked back.
but then I got older and the gun is heavy, so I bought a little marlin 795 and put those indestructible little "tech sites" on it, cost almost as much as the gun, but now it is what I use almost exclusively. it is light, can be banged around and i don't care, and it is ridiculously accurate for a pencil barrelled pea shooter. And lots of affordable 'banana mags' available too, and cabellas almost always has 7 round mags in case a mag is misplaced. I think the performance for the price point is outstanding
 
Another vote for the 795 , cheap accurate out of the box never had an issue of any kind
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Suther said:
Definitely not. My buddy has one and I don't like it. Another buddy has a 10/22, don't really like that either...

Does anyone happen to know if older mossbergs like the 152 have last round bolt hold?
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I had a 151M (I think that's the model anyway) Mossberg years ago. It was a tube mag in the butstock. It didn't have last shot bolt hold open.
 
sgt.rock said:
I own 2 Marlin 60's. Both have tube mags (which I personally love, but not everyone does) and they are as accurate as any semi .22 I've ever owned. They are reliable and have the bolt hold-open after the last shot. Cheap too. What's not to love. After losing 2 detachable mags on other .22's WHILE OUT HUNTING, which meant GO HOME, I now appreciate and love tube mags. Hard to lose an attached tube (which also holds 15 rounds)
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I love tube-fed rimfire rifles; that said, friends of mine have relayed how the ATV-related rules that "frown-upon" loaded firearms tend to make even the 7 or 10 round detachable mags look desirable.
 
cyclone said:
I love tube-fed rimfire rifles; that said, friends of mine have relayed how the ATV-related rules that "frown-upon" loaded firearms tend to make even the 7 or 10 round detachable mags look desirable.
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Also makes a big difference for when you see a grouse or bunny while driving from one spot to another. My savage MK II has a detachable mag, I might try a tube fed this time so I can have a first hand comparison.
 
Suther said:
Definitely not. My buddy has one and I don't like it. Another buddy has a 10/22, don't really like that either...

Does anyone happen to know if older mossbergs like the 152 have last round bolt hold?
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Well, it fits your criteria, and my wife loves hers.
 
Suther said:
Also makes a big difference for when you see a grouse or bunny while driving from one spot to another. My savage MK II has a detachable mag, I might try a tube fed this time so I can have a first hand comparison.
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Detachable is nice for quick load/unload. I have two tube fed guns, an old Winchester pump, and an old Remington Nylon semi. Both are accurate and reliable. That Nylon had killed over 1000 racoon, gave it to my FIL to use for grouse, it came back 30 years later, and now my wife and I shoot paper with it on occasion. My cousin had a nylon with a clip, and it was indeed a no-feed jamomatic from new.
 
Meroh said:
Detachable is nice for quick load/unload. I have two tube fed guns, an old Winchester pump, and an old Remington Nylon semi. Both are accurate and reliable. That Nylon had killed over 1000 racoon, gave it to my FIL to use for grouse, it came back 30 years later, and now my wife and I shoot paper with it on occasion. My cousin had a nylon with a clip, and it was indeed a no-feed jamomatic from new.
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The Nylons are pretty cool.i have a few,but those clip fed ones are a ##### and jam a lot without the right mag,i know my 10C jams like crazy if i use the 77 mags,which remington says are the proper ones as a replacement,but i use a proper marked 10C mag..no problems,but i do love my Nylon 66's,tube fed,heat anything,dont really have to clean them much,they just keep working,
 
colonel3006 said:
I had a 151M (I think that's the model anyway) Mossberg years ago. It was a tube mag in the butstock. It didn't have last shot bolt hold open.
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the old Mossbergs are VERY hard to beat even today,i have about 15 of them,all of them more accurate than any regular 22 today,and full size is a bonus,but prices have been climbing in recent years due to more and more people figuring out just how good they are,look them up,,you'll be surprised at the nice models that have been made,
 
Wiskey1 said:
the old Mossbergs are VERY hard to beat even today,i have about 15 of them,all of them more accurate than any regular 22 today,and full size is a bonus,but prices have been climbing in recent years due to more and more people figuring out just how good they are,look them up,,you'll be surprised at the nice models that have been made,
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Oh I've heard they are good rifles. But I specifically want a bolt hold on last round for this particular gun. One of them is still on my to-buy list though, and if it's more accurate then whatever I get soon (Marlin most likely) then I might have to keep that one...
 
One thing that I'm no fan of is when a Marlin 795's dovetail rail is way off of alignment with the rifle's barrel.

To me, that means a dovetail-to-Picattiny mount and windage-adjustable rings are required to "fix" something that should have been sorted-out at the factory. Oh, and perhaps also a cheek-piece to help deal with any increased height, unless chin-welds are your thing...

But, as always, YMMV.
 
cyclone said:
One thing that I'm no fan of is when a Marlin 795's dovetail rail is way off of alignment with the rifle's barrel.

To me, that means a dovetail-to-Picattiny mount and windage-adjustable rings are required to "fix" something that should have been sorted-out at the factory. Oh, and perhaps also a cheek-piece to help deal with any increased height, unless chin-welds are your thing...

But, as always, YMMV.
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A cheek peice is standard fair. If the stock is low enough to use factory irons, it'll be too low for a scope. I'll probably run this without a scope to start, but I've got some dovetail rings from a scope I bought, and a 4x AIM scope sitting in my drawer so that'll end up on it at some point most likely...

Is the rail being off a standard issue with the 795? Is that something I should really be looking for? Is this a gun that should be bought in person to make sure its straight, or is this an uncommon enough problem to buy online, sight unseen, and hope for the best?
 
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