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Marlin Model 60 Help

Rob3448Rob3448 Member Posts: 171 ✭✭✭
edited January 2002 in Ask the Experts
I have a Marlin Model 60 which i have Fired about 5,000 rounds through it. Now it jams and misfires a lot. I have fully cleaned the gun and i still have the problems. Maybe Marlins just don't have that long of life.
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  • competentonecompetentone Member Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If it is an older one, you may have the "two piece" "feeding block" (off the top of my head, I'm not sure what Marlin calls it); it is the part ( a cast piece) which controls the round as it moves from the magazine to the chamber.The old ones had a "two piece" unit riveted together; they wear and the rivets losen up; Marlin will sell you a replacement block which is a solid cast piece.This could be your problem, but it is hard to diagnose jamming problems without seeing it.
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  • Rob3448Rob3448 Member Posts: 171 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The marlin is only about 6 months old. How many rounds can the marlin handle before they are worn out?
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  • Ronald J. SnowRonald J. Snow Member Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How is your gun jamming? Is it leaving the empty cartridge in the chamber and trying to load a new cartridge? Is the empty cartridge hanging half way out of the action?
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  • Ronald J. SnowRonald J. Snow Member Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How is your gun jamming? Is it leaving the empty cartridge in the chamber and trying to load a new cartridge? Is the empty cartridge hanging half way out of the action?
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  • Ronald J. SnowRonald J. Snow Member Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How is your gun jamming? Is it leaving the empty cartridge in the chamber and trying to load a new cartridge? Is the empty cartridge hanging half way out of the action?
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  • Ronald J. SnowRonald J. Snow Member Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How is your gun jamming? Is it leaving the empty cartridge in the chamber and trying to load a new cartridge? Is the empty cartridge hanging half way out of the action?
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  • Rob3448Rob3448 Member Posts: 171 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    it jams both ways that u discribed. It will also let the spent case and the new shell jam at the same time. Then the new shell can not be fired because the lead will get that deformed that it will not chanmber.
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  • hicapacityhicapacity Member Posts: 24 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    what ammo are you using ? i had jam after jam with remington but then i used federal ammo i might have one or two jams out of a box of 550
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Have you removed the barrel from the stock to clean it in your cleaning efforts? If not, do so, and remove the whole bolt assembly. Soak in a strong solvent or blast with brake cleaner. Dry, oil, and reassemble.
    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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