It's very puzzling if it is doing this with iron sights also.
you haven't cleaned the whole gun yet? Including trigger group?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.
You can scope a Nylon66...
heck give them a chance it might be the best gun you ever have! I am soon gonna try one myself as I bought the marlin model 70pss and loved it so much I bought a second one!!The Marlin is jabbing at me from the grave.
I picked up the replacement gun today. Because it had a new serial number, I had to endure a second background check. Because the store hadn't inventoried it yet, the computer didn't want to finish the background check. They had to do various things to get me out the door. I guess I was there about half an hour.
I've never sold a firearm, except for a Glock I unloaded on a buddy. I think I should dump this baby before I fire it.
hey that's great I am looking at buyin a marlin 60 in the stainless at Walmart for $40 more than the blued model so is yours as I forgot is it stainless or blued??I decided to try it. I thought about how cheap gun buyers are, and I figured no one would give me more for a brand new gun than one that had 100 rounds shot through it ("Come on, man, as soon as it leaves the store, it's USED."), so I cleaned out the barrel and ran some rounds through it.
The original gun was a total piece of crap. I have no idea what was wrong with it. Maybe some stoner on the production line forgot to rifle the barrel. Anyway, it wasn't even accurate by BB gun standards, and I mean that literally, as a person who used to kill songbirds from 50 feet with a BB gun. The replacement gun is much nicer. I'll attach a target.
I threw an old Bushnell rimfire scope on it, propped it up my left hand on top of the steering wheel of my golf cart, and shot Golden Bullets from 22 long paces, whatever that may be. "Rabbit distance" is how I looked at it. The big string of shots in the middle is me cranking the knobs on the scope to zero it. I forget what I was thinking when I fired the two lowest shots. The other two big holes are 10-round groups. I think the one on the left is Mini-Mags, but I don't recall for sure.
Given the circumstances, this seems like fine accuracy to me. The trigger is still heinous and arguably criminal, but now I can at least feel comfortable spending money on an upgrade.
The stock on this gun is nicely figured for the price. I did not expect that.