Well about 7 months ago I dropped my 1955 Sears Mountie off with a local Smith I know for a reblue..I normally would not reblue these old Gals..But it had some issues where I think in this case it was OK..
I am not overly impressed by the work..But in fairness it was fairly rough..I put my Vintage Marlin Branded Scope back on..I will live with the way it is now I guess..Still a harder to find Model..And fine little Rifles as we know..
Dark out now, best pic for tonight..But will post a few better pics tomorrow in the daylight..
Looks OK to me. I have a 61 Mountie that was re-blued before I bought it. I think someone had also worked on the trigger and action as it is very smooth and slick, more so than my other 39A's. Also it has a Redfield receiver sight. It is the 39A I usually grab to use, even though I usually prefer original condition.
I thought Marlin made rifles for sears for just 2 years. I don’t recall 55 being one of those years. What year span did Marlin offer the rifle to sears (with factory drilled and tap barrel for scope)?
Edit :
My old memory is not that great anymore, yes the 55 was in the years of Sears made rifles.
It looks like 3 years from 54 through 56
I believe mine is Sears for sure..Good telltale is if you remove the filler screws..The edges should not be raised, indicating tapping after the fact..And the holes should be blued down in there..Also indicating they were done pre finish at Marlin. If the holes were done post manufacture..It is easy to tell that with close inspection.....
And my hole spacing is right on as far as distance form first hole to receiver also.
Those were some good days back then. I worked at a Montgomery Ward store from 1965-1969 and Marlin made rifles for them under the Western field name. Store never had any .22 lever action rifles made by Marlin, but I can't remember the model number but I did own a 336 equivalent Western field rifle and it was very nice, liked it better than the 336, but like a lot of my guns, it is long gone and just a memory for me now.
I do not believe and in all I have read on 39A's have never seen that Marlin made 39A's marked as anything but Marlin 39A for any other retailer. The Sears Guns were Marlins not a store brand. Marlin did make some of their models in store brands like Western Auto.
That agrees with all I have found as well. The only thing that indicates a 39A was made for sears is the drill and tapping on the barrel in the three year period mentioned above. Even then you need to do a visual to verify if it was done prior to blueing.
No expert here, but I think the 39a and 39a Mounties were all marked Marlin and never made under any other name. Some other models were made for some of the large retailers such as Montgomery Ward, not so sure about Sears, but would not be surprised. The couple of Wards models I saw many years ago appeared to be up to all the Marlin standards at that time.
I have a 1954 Mountie, bought in Utah, for $75 back in 1975... sent it to Marlin in 1989 (?) for their refurbishing, and last winter it needed an ejector spring, and it was replaced, I love it but am curious about the highly vaunted accuracy. What is a reasonable expectation for a fifty yard group? My Kimber 82 will come close to keeping all the shots in one whole, I don't expect the Model 39 to do the same, what sounds good for the old carbine?
I have a 1954 Mountie, bought in Utah, for $75 back in 1975... sent it to Marlin in 1989 (?) for their refurbishing, and last winter it needed an ejector spring, and it was replaced, I love it but am curious about the highly vaunted accuracy. What is a reasonable expectation for a fifty yard group? My Kimber 82 will come close to keeping all the shots in one whole, I don't expect the Model 39 to do the same, what sounds good for the old carbine?
The 39a was designed as a high quality, lever action, Sporting rifle, and nothing more. Accuracy will depend upon iron sights vs scope, finding the ammo that shoots the tightest groups, the quality of the rest you're shooting from, etc.
I'm sure there will be someone coming on claiming their 39A shoots 1/8 moa groups, off hand, with iron sights, at 100yds.
Yes most assuredly some Marlin Rifles were made for and sold to others and marked with the others name..The 39a however was not..
Most major Firearms Company's indeed made Firearms under contract for store brand names.No markings as to if say Winchester or Marlin made them, but still 100% made by them and the same Firearm, other than markings...There is a whole cross reference out there for this very thing..
I have always wanted a Marlin Model 50..
So take a look, you may be a proud Marlin owner and not even know it,LOL
Marlin House Brands
Marlin House Brand Cross Reference List
Glenfield
Glenfield Model 10 = Marlin model 101
Glenfield Model 20 = Marlin model 80
Glenfield Model 25 = Marlin model 80/780 W/swivels
Glenfield Model 30 = Marlin 336C (.30-30 w/4-shot magazine)
Glenfield Model 30A = Marlin 336C (.30-30 w/6-shot mag)
Glenfield Model 30GT = Marlin 336
Glenfield Model 35 = Marlin model 336 (.35 cal)
Glenfield Model 36G = Marlin 336C (.30-30 w/5-round mag)
Glenfield Model 50 = Marlin model 55
Glenfield Model 60 = Marlin model 60/99C
Glenfield Model 65 = Marlin model 99M1
Glenfield Model 70 = Marlin model 70HC
Glenfield Model 70 = Marlin model 989
Glenfield Model 75 = Marlin 99M1
Glenfield Model 80G = Marlin model 80C
Glenfield Model 81G = Marlin model 81C
Glenfield Model 99-G = Marlin model 99C
Glenfield Model 101-G = Marlin model 101
Glenfield Model 989-G = Marlin model 989/Marlin 70
Glenfield/Marlin model 990 = Marlin 60 (17-round mag)
Coast to Coast (United Merchant)
Model 5 = Marlin 60
Model 3000 = Marlin 30AS
Model 600 = Marlin 60
Model 700 = Marlin 70
Model 40 = Marlin 99C/Glenfield 60
Model 42 = Marlin 70
Coast to Coast 70 = Marlin 70
Coast to Coast 440 = Marlin 70
Coast to Coast 550 = Marlin 60
Coast to Coast 650 = Marlin 55 Goose Gun
Coast to Coast 3030S = Marlin 30AS
Coast to Coast 6088CC = Marlin 60
Cotter & Company had a few also...
Model 10-40 = Marlin 101/Glenfield 10
Model 33 = Marlin 336
Model 60-50 = Glenfield 60/Marlin 99C
Model 701 = Marlin 70
Model 75-45 = Marlin 99M1 (top cover)
Model 75-46 = Glenfield 75C (no cover)
Marky Bros
Thunderbolt Model JL = Marlin 101 (1000 made)
Montgomery Wards/Western Field/Hawthorne
Hawthorn Huntsman 25C = Marlin 55 Goose Gun
Western Field 33 = Marlin 336
Western Field 40 = Marlin 101
Western Field 45 = Marlin 989M2
Western Field 50 = Glenfield 60
Western Field 740 = Marlin336
Western Field EMN 171 = Marlin 50
Western Field EMN 175 = Marlin 50
Western Field EMN 176 = Marlin 55
Western Field M040 O/U = Marlin 90
Western Field XNH 175 = Marlin 55
Widgeon SA 650 = Marlin 55 12 ga.
Western Auto/Revelation
Western Auto 103.13 = Marlin 81
Western Auto 103.16 = Marlin 80
Western Auto 103.18 = Marlin 80
Western Auto 103.181 = Marlin 101
Western Auto 103.19780 = Marlin 101
Western Auto 103.19790 = Marlin 80
Western Auto 103.19800 = Marlin 80
Western Auto 103.1981 = Marlin 81
Western Auto 103.1982 = Marlin 81DL
Western Auto 103.19820 = Marlin 81
Western Auto 103.19840 = Marlin 56
Western Auto 103.19880 = Marlin 57
Western Auto 103.19890 = Marlin57M
Western Auto 103.1997 = Marlin 101
Western Auto 103.2 = Marlin 80
Western Auto 103.228 = Marlin 80
Western Auto 103.229 = Marlin 81
Western Auto 103.273 = Marlin 980
Western Auto 103.274 = Marlin 122
Western Auto 103.2751 = Marlin122
Western Auto 103.2840 = Marlin 80
Western Auto 103.2850 = Marlin 81
Western Auto 103.2870 = Marlin 56
Western Auto 103.360 = Marlin 90
Western Auto 103.450 = Marlin 336
Western Auto 103.451 = Marlin 336
Western Auto 103.720 = Marlin 59
Western Auto 103.740 = Marlin 59
Western Auto 105-2060 = Marlin 780
Western Auto 105-2060 = Marlin80
Western Auto 110-2140 = Marlin 81
Western Auto 110-2140 = Marlin 781
Western Auto 115-2277 = Marlin 57
Western Auto 116-2276 = Marlin 57M
Western Auto 120-2220 = Marlin 99
Western Auto 150M = Marlin 49
Western Auto 150-2225 = Marlin 49
Western Auto 200-2280 = Marlin 39A
Western Auto 200-2282 = Marlin39A
Western Auto 200-2550 = Marlin336
Western Auto 200-2554 = Marlin 336 (.44mag)
Western Auto 2280 = Marlin 39A
Western Auto 2282 = Marlin 39A Mountie (Rare)
Western Auto 335-3725 = Marlin 59
West Point
West Point GA22 = Marlin 60 (old Model 75C)
West Point 45 = Marlin 60 (ditto)
I will say this, I am sure you will have better accuracy with a regular long barreled 39a VS the Mountie..I have never shot my Mountie at paper..Just not into doing that..But it will respectively kill a soda can al day..I would guess it might do 1 inch groups at 50 with the ammo it likes and a competent shooter, good shooting conditions. I am sure a regular 39a could do better..Scoped I bet a 39a could do 1/2 inch with effort..
Most Firearms could do much better than they do, if you took Human error out of the equation..
I grew up shooting a standard 39a. Somewhere in jr high or high school dad and I had a little b model Weaver scope installed. We made a crude vice on a sawhorse. basically four pieces of 2x2, with two permanently attached to the sawhorse, the other two floating, with a couple of bolts in each so we could sight the rifle. We basically clamped it on the forearm .
It's been 60+ years ago, so don't remember the specifics, but we fired it at a target at close range and carefully adjusted the crosshairs onto the bullet hole. Tried a few more shots and all through the same hole, not really a group, but one tiny hole. I think dad then extended the range to around 25-30 yards and we repeated the process.
A few years ago when I got my first Montie, I bore sighted a Lyman receiver sight, then "fine" tuned it by shooting at dried dirt clods, Some months I really fine tuned it on paper off a bench.
I actually find the Mountie more accurate to shoot offhand, as it seems better balanced, the standard off the bench.
I used to bounce golf balls around out to 75yds or so. Sure - could have been ricochets hittin em, but they’re minute of golf ball out a good ways.....
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