New Marlin 60 Shoots All Over the Place

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Picher said:
Pitting is minimal on .22LRs due to the preservative tendency of the wax bullet coating. However, if cleaned and not preserved, they can rust. (I usually put a coat of Break-Free after solvent, but also store guns in a warm, dry place).
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I’m not meaning to suggest a new .22 would be pitted, the suggestion was to look for abnormalities (my pictures were from my Carcano). All my rimfires get Bore Shine but I should have stock in Break Free with the copious amounts I use.
 
OP, I’d clean it good and shoot a few more boxes of ammo. Since you said you had the same results with iron sights and a scope, I doubt it’s the scope. If you still get bad results then send it back to Remington yourself or get the store where you bought it to send it back for you. It’s highly unlikely the place you bought it from will give you a refund or exchange the rifle.
 
I have a Marlin 60 (glenfield) over 50 years old-still shoots great---still super filthy after shooting.
Have 2 Marlin 39A's--both have extractor wore out.
 
HOWARD J said:
I have a Marlin 60 (glenfield) over 50 years old-still shoots great---still super filthy after shooting.
Have 2 Marlin 39A's--both have extractor wore out.
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I just replaced the extractor on my 39A and it works well now. Mine is a fairly new (2009) Deluxe model that's had lots of assembly problems, including off-center iron sights, but I got it pretty cheap because it was new at the store for about 4 years. Numrich had the extractor. It's just a piece of bent metal on that vintage 39A.
 
I Boresnaked the Marlin and ran a few rounds through it today. It is now accurate enough to shoot coons at 50 yards. Can't say whether it's totally fixed, because I used cheap shells and didn't use a rest, but I will follow up.

I assume Marlin left some kind of crap in the barrel.

Now I'm going to get the trigger fixed. It's unbearable.
 
The bore snake is good but it's not Brasso and plastic brush. Take it out of the stock and spray it down good with some spray on carb cleaner to get the factory backwash off of it. Then retry re-shooting it.
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Now that the barrel is clean give CCI Standard Velocity ammo (0032) a try. It's been very accurate in every .22 rifle I've tried it in without spending a lot of money on the ammo.
 
A Marlin 60 that doesn't shoot is a rare animal indeed. I vote scope as well unless you're *absolutely* sure you've ruled it out, with scientific certainty.

And yes, try at least 4 or 5 types of good ammo if it's not the scope - chances are excellent that one of them will give you 3 1/2 to 4 MOA tops - i.e. less than 1" at 25 yards.
 
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I bought my grandson a new Model 60 for graduating Hunters Safety Course. Mounted up a basic TruGlo 4X scope and it'll group a inch or better at 40 yards. hdbiker
 
Here is the final report.

I took the Marlin out and shot it at spinning targets with my BugBuster scope. The first few shots were fine. After that everything went to hell.

I took the rifle out to my pasture to shoot at paper targets. I rested it to be sure I was getting good results. It would shoot two rounds next to each other and then another two next to each other...three inches away.

I took the scope off and tried another scope. Same results. Hopeless.

I put the BugBuster scope on an air rifle and had no trouble shooting into an area the size of a quarter. The scope is fine. Nothing wrong with it. The air rifle is harder on a scope than a .308, but the scope holds zero.

I don't know what could be wrong with a rifle to make it shoot like a smoothbore, but there must be a defect. Back it goes to the store.

Should I give up on Marlin? I can always get a 10/22. I picked the Marlin because people said they shot better.
 
Gander Outdoors won't do an exchange or return on this gun, so I am stuck with it. They are sending it off to be looked at. The problem here is that if a smith fires it twice and it works, he'll think it's fine and send it back. The gun shoots in random directions, so it can give you two or three consistent shots before going crazy again.

If they don't fix it, I'll take it apart and sell it piece by piece.

They were very nice about it, but I wish the gun had a problem that was immediately obvious so they couldn't deny the existence of a problem.
 
I would call Marlin first. Then, if no satisfaction is gained, I would buy a CZ 45whatever if I wanted an accurate sporter weight rifle that wouldn't bust my budget.
 
I’d say it’s an anomaly for a Marlin to behave that way and finding a 10/22 that outshoots a Marlin out of the box would be an even bigger anomaly. The Ruger isn’t terribly inaccurate and it is easy to work on, part of the reason I prefer it, but I’d never bet Ruger on group size.

If it comes back still wonky, I’d say start with JB Bore Paste, follow up with CLP, and try a few more brands of ammo before giving up. If it hasn’t gone back yet, I’d recommend sending a short note about the issue.
 
I had a UTG scope mount on the BugBuster for both guns. When I put the Bushnell on the .22 I used another UTG scope mount.

There is no point in going down this road. The gun shot badly with open sights.
 
Wow, that is truly bizarre.

So, we've ruled out the scope and the rings, with certainty. Check.

We've reasonably ruled out shooter hold. Check.

Now, one of your last statements was:

"I rested it to be sure I was getting good results. It would shoot two rounds next to each other and then another two next to each other...three inches away. "

At what distance was that result? Still at 25 yards?

This is perplexing, to be sure.
 
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