marlin 22?

[CaptainTrips]

I was given a .22 rifle for my birthday and was told my grandfather built it....but it says marlin rifle company on the barrel, but no serial number anywhere i can find, only info i can find is whats printed on the barrel.

"The Marlin Firearms CO. New haven, Conn - EST 18-0"
"Model BI-DL - 22 cal. S-L-LR ----A"

any ideas?
TIA

 

[Il Duca]

Does it look like this? My 81 DL:

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[Il Duca]

The whole thing:

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[CaptainTrips]

Thats the one, here are pics of mine, excuse the sorry digi cam...

 

[rangerruck]

that is a most excellent rifle, does it have the rear peep site? if it does not, you can get one, off of ebay, or http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/
they are great shooters, and will fire short, long and long rifles, with the feed tube holding 22 to 25 shorts at one time. Awesome. however, since they are so old, with the peep site, you may not be able to fire hi velocity 22lr's, since it was proly made before hi vels came out, and the rear peep site cannot adjust up enough, to get them in your site pic downrange.

 

[rangerruck]

p.s. , in good shape, they go for 150 plus down here in houston area. hang onto it, the value will go up.

 

[gaudio5]

Marlin model 781 i have the same gun

 

[CaptainTrips]

It has fired LR hollow point shells just fine, and has the best cross hairs i have used, hits dead on every time

 

[ArmedBear]

Hang onto it!

A friend of mine also inherited one, and it's wonderfully made.