Any Marlin Model 60 Owners?

[hdsprstr]

I am a owner of a Marlin model 60. I need some advice as too when others clean their rifle. Do you clean after a certain number of rounds? length of time? etc.

 

[outdrsmn82]

i clean mine after about 1000 rounds. i only shoot CCI mini mags thru mine. if i was using any of the cheaper rounds i would do it sooner.

 

[jimdana1942]

I wish I had me wun of dem tangs. They will last a long time and they are real ezee to site down the barrul.

 

[Dave328]

I have one about 27 yrs old. has the 18rnd tube mag. i think i've done a full strip cleaning (pull trigger pack, etc) twice. that thing has digested many thousands of rounds of whatever garbage was cheapest at the time without so much as a hickup. just like my hk's!

 

[machinedrummer]

I have one about 27 yrs old. has the 18rnd tube mag. i think i've done a full strip cleaning (pull trigger pack, etc) twice. that thing has digested many thousands of rounds of whatever garbage was cheapest at the time without so much as a hickup. just like my hk's!

Same here. I am scared to really clean it, it might fall apart.

 

[MALIBU12]

I have one about 27 yrs old. has the 18rnd tube mag. i think i've done a full strip cleaning (pull trigger pack, etc) twice. that thing has digested many thousands of rounds of whatever garbage was cheapest at the time without so much as a hickup. just like my hk's!

What he said on the cleaning! mine is 24 yr old and also has the 18 rnd tube also.

 

[DesmoDucRob]

I used to have one. I bought it as a gift for a girl... Then found a better girl.

 

[jmcrawf1]

I have one about 27 yrs old. has the 18rnd tube mag. i think i've done a full strip cleaning (pull trigger pack, etc) twice. that thing has digested many thousands of rounds of whatever garbage was cheapest at the time without so much as a hickup. just like my hk's!

Same here. I have an 18 rounder with the squirrel engravings that was my dad's.

I clean it after every outing just like my other guns.

 

[Dave328]

Just to clarify, i do run a brush and pad through the barrel, i just don't break down the trigger/chamber until thw crud gets to a point where it won't let the bold hold open.

 

[SpeedRacer]

This was my first rifle, got a used one for my 10th birthday. It's over 50 years old and still plinks away like a champ. And I beat the CRAP out of that thing through my early years. So I wouldn't stress the cleaning much...maybe every 500-1000 rounds.

 

[downsoutthak]

be careful what you clean them with. my marlins feed throat/ejector eroded away. whatever cleaning chemical i uesed ate it away. i guess i didnt wipe it off good enough. the ejector is a piece of some type of cast potmetal. i wish they made them better back in the day. i see midway usa has a updated retrofit kit available, but you have to use a new bolt.

 

[Unit505]

I clean my stainless model 60 as soon as the slide starts hanging up. Probably 500 rounds and it gets a squirt of rem oil spray in the slide. Bulk ammo really gums it up, so I have to get the carbon build up cleaned out really well. I've probably got 10,000 rounds through it and never done more than emptying a can of rem oil spray into it and scrubbing with a tooth brush and swabbing the barrel. You'll pretty much know when a good cleaning is due as I said when the slide won't operate smoothly. I've got the dragonov stock and two tube mag speed loaders and love the model 60.

 

[Quickdraw22]

Bought one for my brother as his first gun. The trigger is long enough and gritty enough that you don't have to worry about an "oops".

I also didn't bother with cleaning it. I HATE not having a removable trigger group.

 

[PAPACHUCK]

I have one about 27 yrs old. has the 18rnd tube mag. i think i've done a full strip cleaning (pull trigger pack, etc) twice. that thing has digested many thousands of rounds of whatever garbage was cheapest at the time without so much as a hickup. just like my hk's!

Same here. Mine's of 1980 vintage, I bought it new myself.

Many tens of thousands of rounds with maybe two good cleanings.

Remove the stock and spray with gun scrubber, clean the bore, and shoot again.

 

[hdsprstr]

thanks for the reply's. y'all have answered my question.

 

[dogbaron]

I have one that was made for Western Auto. It is marked "Revelation Model 120". I bought it a couple of days after JFK was killed in Dallas in 1963. Many thousands of rounds have gone through it. Back then I could buy a brick of Federal .22LR for about $5 through my dad's store and there were many, many more places to shoot so Sunday afternoons were spent behind the levee in Smoke Bend burning up amminition with my future wife. I have taken it down completely about 4 times in all those years. I would clean the bore and the parts of the receiver that could be cleaned by opening the action.

 

[scubasteve]

While I don't have the mdl 60, I do have the mdl 70 (magazine fed). Are you really supposed to clean them? I think I squited some double dee fotay on it once. Remember.....it's not a Ruger.