SpeedRacer
Well-Known Member
It's not an M60 at all! 
Let's go back...I got this rifle for my 10th birthday. I think my dad got it in a small town pawn shop for $40. First gun I ever shot or owned, and it's followed me around for the last 16 years, which is quite a task especially through my teenage "sell everything I own for drugs" years.
Anywho...today I ran out of guns to clean before I felt like I was done playing with guns. So what do you do? Pull out your ol' .22 and completely "remodel" it. I had painted it at least 4 times over the years and even colored the stock completely with a sharpie. So I strip it down to bare metal and find a rollmark I had never seen before saying it was a Marlin Model 99. WTF?! All these years I've been lying to people!
I look it up and apparently this is the father of the Model 60, and was only made 1959-1961.
It's not really in collectible shape, and I'd never sell it anyway. So I went ahead with my plan to rebuild it. I'll post pics when I finish refinishing the stock. Everything else is done, I decided to do a polished receiver and trigger guard, with the barrel and small parts "redneck blued", aka semi-gloss black engine paint.
Let's go back...I got this rifle for my 10th birthday. I think my dad got it in a small town pawn shop for $40. First gun I ever shot or owned, and it's followed me around for the last 16 years, which is quite a task especially through my teenage "sell everything I own for drugs" years.
Anywho...today I ran out of guns to clean before I felt like I was done playing with guns. So what do you do? Pull out your ol' .22 and completely "remodel" it. I had painted it at least 4 times over the years and even colored the stock completely with a sharpie. So I strip it down to bare metal and find a rollmark I had never seen before saying it was a Marlin Model 99. WTF?! All these years I've been lying to people!
I look it up and apparently this is the father of the Model 60, and was only made 1959-1961.
It's not really in collectible shape, and I'd never sell it anyway. So I went ahead with my plan to rebuild it. I'll post pics when I finish refinishing the stock. Everything else is done, I decided to do a polished receiver and trigger guard, with the barrel and small parts "redneck blued", aka semi-gloss black engine paint.
