Experience with a Marlin model 60 repeater anyone?

Have had my Marlin 60 for a few years now. Awesome rifle. Can not speak highly enough about them. Mine will eat anything!
 
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The tube isn't THAT bad, but compared to a fully loaded magazine that can be dropped or inserted in a fraction of a second (getting in and out of vehicles for example), it's cumbersome.
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The guy at Al Flaherty's made me laugh today when he said "We're Canadian...... what we lack in high capacity we make up for in re-loading speed."
 
Own the 60sn which is the blued barrel with synthetic stock and the 60sb which is the stainless barrel with beech wood stock and is $40 more. Have to say that on a .22 the micro grove rifling does make a difference in accuracy. I have also become a fan of the tubular magazine after forgetting my removable magazines for another rifle on several occasions, a day at the range have always been saved by my Marlin 60 backup rifle. Both my 60s eat all types of ammo. I read somewhere that the model 60 is the world's best selling .22 semi which is saying something.
 
I did a lot of gopher shooting this summer and tried all my different rimfire rifles out to compare accuracy, ease of loading and reliability. The list of rifles is Marlin model 60, Ruger 10-22 takedown, Remington 597, CZ512 .22WMR and a Ruger American Rifle in .17HMR. The clear winner in the .22LR semi rifles is the Marlin. I fired hundreds of rounds with not one missfeed or jam, it is easily the most accurate of the .22LR's and with 2 Speed D Loaders loaded before leaving home, it is way faster to load the 14 round tube mag than to reload the other mags, even with the Ruger using Butler Creek mags and their SpeedLoader. With 16 tubes in the Speed D Loaders filled with 14 round each I can shoot gophers all day. While the Remington and Ruger were OK I had plenty of missfeeds and reloading mags in the field is a pain. I have a Nikon Prostaff 2-7 X 32 scope on the Marlin and it makes a light, accurate, reliable gopher weapon.

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Of the 2 magnum caliber rifles the CZ is my favorite. It is super accurate and not affected by wind as much as the .17HMR. When you hit a gopher with the 30 grain CCI rounds at 2200 FPS the carnage is huge. I love the Ruger American rifle but I wish I had bought it in .22WMR.
 
My first rimfire rifle was a Marlin 60SS. Looked pretty nice, stainless and clad in black-grey laminate.

Was a decent shooter with a pretty bad trigger. That trigger combined with the tubular must have improved my patience.
Did not mind a diet of bulk ammo, which I liked.

My second rimfire was a 10/22. Accuracy to 25yds was on par, with the nod going to the Marlin out to 50 (never shot her beyond that).
The third purchase was a Savage MKII FSS boltgun. While the accutrigger was nice out of the box, could never quite match the accuracy of either the Marlin 60, or the 10/22.
The Ruger rotary magazine seemed a godsend after the Marlin's tube, and the flimsy piece of crap offered by Savage.

Then the modification bug took hold.

If you want a proven, rugged and inexpensive autoloader, there are not many better than the Marlin 60.
If you like to tinker, customize, or accurize, the 10/22 will be your drug of choice; it is the Honda Civic of rimfires.

Sold both the Marlin and the Savage to fund other projects, and don't miss either one of them.
 
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