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You'll find the link for stevesgunz that Chris mentioned here and the various other lever's that are out there, past and present. http://www.leverguns.com/

There was some truth to this. Mostly seen with older guns (you may be religious and use oil sparingly but you didn't know how the previous owner/owners cared for it and lubed it.) Guns with two-piece stocks where inletting was tight in the tang area and where wrist areas were thin were the most prone to damage. Too much oil softened the wood, or if it was untreated swelled when moisture came in contact with the wood. One-piece stocks for rifles fared a lot better.

You could be looking for a while, depending on what you're willing to settle for. I agree with others, I like the older Marlin's, but most folks aren't giving them up easily. They simply are not as wildly popular these days as 'glass and Kevlar stocked bolt-action rifles chambered in high-performance calibers that shoot like a taut string out to five hundred yards. The lever-action was always a sturdy entry-level rifle that was built to take abuse that just about anyone could afford. I saw a like-new Winchester 94AE carbine in .44 Mag. at G&H a couple weeks ago. They wanted $900! It sold the moment they posted it on their website. In my travels upstate NY (rifle-hunting country) these items used to pepper the used racks in gunshops but they are bare today of such. The old thutty-thutty is still popular and plentiful if you look around, but that defeats the purpose of the chambering you are intent to find.

One New York county dealing with the plethora of opt-out forms. An unforeseen consequence of Cuomo's SAFE Act. And yet people are applying for more handguns! May 15th isn't too far off. http://www.usatoday....-forms/2036327/ Tens of thousands of New York gun owners want to keep their names out of public records. ALBANY, N.Y. — County clerks around New York say tens of thousands of pistol permit opt-out forms are flooding their offices as a state deadline nears for their completion. But the counties have received no state money for the additional work, they say. A provision in New York's new gun-control law allows state residents to exempt their pistol-permit records from Freedom of Information requests. But permit holders have until May 15 to file forms with their county or risk having their information available to the public. "It started a little slow the first week with a couple of hundred a day, and now we get about 700 to 800 at the most per day," said Westchester County Clerk Tim Idoni. "People realize that the deadline is approaching." Westchester County has received opt-out forms from more than half of its 16,800 residents who have active pistol permits, Idoni said. The provision was included in a state gun-control law in January after The (Westchester County) Journal News, a Gannett publication, released an interactive map the month before of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties. The state's new gun-control law also expands an assault-weapons ban, requires registration of guns every five years and limits the number of bullets in a magazine to seven. The counties' gun-permit information will be kept private until May 15 when the opt-out forms take effect. Those who want to complete a form afterward still can, according to the law, but they won't be assured their information will be kept private in the meantime. County clerks say the forms' popularity has office staff working overtime and clerks pulling workers from different divisions to help organize the information. Some clerks said they have started sending the forms to county judges for approval to stay ahead of the process. "Right now we are absolutely overwhelmed, we have lines out the door and our staff are stressed to the max," Monroe County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo said. "We are treading water and doing what needs to be done to get through the day." Dinolfo said about 1,000 of the county's forms came from new pistol-permit applicants because the law also has spurred a surge in people buying guns. Monroe County, home to the state's third largest city in Rochester, has about 45,000 pistol-permit holders. In most counties, county judges approve or deny the opt-out requests. Then the forms are sent back to clerk's offices where pistol permit holders' status is updated and logged as private. The opt-out form allows a number of reasons a gun owner can seek to have information kept private. Among them: being a law-enforcement official or a victim of domestic violence, having a safety fear after grand jury service, or being concerned about harassment. "The law is very unclear and never told those who do the work how this process should be completed," Cortland County Clerk Elizabeth Larkin said. "County by county they are trying to figure out how to comply with the law with no resources and no written regulations." Cortland, with a population of about 50,000 people 30 miles south of Syracuse, N.Y., has 7,000 pistol-permit holders; more than 1,000 submitted an opt-out form. Additionally, Larkin said her office has had three times the number of people applying for pistol permits with lines often out the door. State officials have said the new gun law shouldn't cost county governments anything more. State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico testified at a hearing in February that state would bear most of the costs. Clerks disagree. "We have not done any overtime, but it has been extremely difficult and my staff has gone without lunches and without breaks," Larkin said. "We may have to pull funds from contingency for supplies once it gets closer to the deadline." Another unanticipated issue: Residents want confirmation that their information will be sealed, said County Clerk Nina Postupack of Ulster County just west of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Almost a quarter of the 20,000 residents with pistol permits have submitted opt-out forms. Not all county judges are giving automatic approvals. Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato said his county judge sent back forms that lacked information or failed to provide a legitimate concern for sealing the records. Piperato plans to return the forms to residents so they can resubmit them. GOP Sen. Thomas O'Mara of Big Flats, N.Y., said the law should be changed to keep all gun information private. He is among gun-rights supporters who want a full repeal of the law. "The opt-out should be done away with all together," he said. "There shouldn't be any disclosure of this information." Some good-government groups disagree and supported The Journal News' attempt in December to get pistol-permit data from Putnam County, which refused to release the information. After the gun-law passed, the news organization took down its online permit map. "We oppose efforts to undermine the integrity of the state's Freedom of Information Law and fear the slippery slope of carving out exceptions as an attempt to undermine the public interest," the groups said in a statement Jan. 8. County clerks said they are bracing next for registration of assault weapons, set to begin April 15 when state police make forms available online. "It is an unfunded mandate, and it was dumped on us," Larkin said. "It should have never happened on the state level with no thought of the consequences to local county offices."

+1. Nothing wrong with old school. Just doing it frequently as use dictates is more important. Cleaning your firearm is a good way to intimate yourself with the inner workings and how it operates, if you are so inclined. It's a good proactive way to spot troubles as well. Just cleaning on a regular basis does wonders vs. not cleaning at all. The high-tech stuff today is better in some respects than what was used in the past, but keep in mind that there are a lot of firearms around today that are more than a century old that are in fine condition and still working. Who knows what they were cleaned with and how often years ago when firearms were really treated like tools. If they they were cleaned, they were lubed with a light coat of sperm whale oil (AKA - sewing maching oil.) Not the most high-tech stuff nor did it have a glamorous name either.

Two different models: the 9422 handled .22LR, the 9422M was chambered in .22 Mag. The 9422's were discontinued in 2005(?) The Marlin M39 is still made. (Marlin chambered their M1894 in .22 Magnum for a while. That chambering has been discontinued as well. Somewhat scarce today and will cost you.)

Marlin 39A or a Winchester 9422 if you can find one. Both are milled steel and offer a simple take-down feature. (The 9422M's were chambered in .22 Mag., a nice offering if you want some added punch.) Model 39's are around, while 9422's are becoming tough to find and they aren't cheap anymore. The Browning BL-22 always took a back seat to these in popularity probably because it was made in Japan, isn't easy to disassemble, and the trigger travels with the short-throw lever, a function some folks either love or hate. However, they are nicely made with no cheap materials.

Those are made by Federal. They are somewhat plentiful. There's reload data for them in the 2nd Edition Lyman Shotshell Handbook if you ever want to reload them.

Temper that sentiment with this: Intact old paper shells today depending upon condition, make & gauge; can sell for as much as $3 to $5 apiece to a collector

Perfectly fine to use as long as they seem dry, not swelled by moisture, and will chamber correctly. It's not a bad idea to search the web to see what they are worth. Some brands and gauges still intact in their original boxes are becoming sought after by collectors today.

Sniping people on State Street? That's a block from the Hackensack Court House. I don't understand people. Maybe he found out the Easter Bunny isn't real? What a "maroon." http://www.northjers...pellet_gun.html HACKENSACK — A city man has been arrested for allegedly shooting two people in separate incidents with a pellet gun from the window of his State Street apartment, authorities said Friday. PHOTO COURTESY OF HACKENSACK POLICE DEPT. Nicholas Battaglia, 25, of Hackensack, was charged with shooting two people with a pellet gun. PHOTO COURTESY OF HACKENSACK POLICE DEPT. Rebecca Battaglia, 30, his sister, was charged with obstructing justice and hindering prosecution. Nicholas Battaglia, 25, was arrested Wednesday night following an investigation into two pellet gun shootings, on March 11 and March 22, said Capt. Thomas Salcedo of the Hackensack police. He was charged with two counts each of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, and one count of unlawful possession of a weapon, Salcedo said. Battaglia’s sister, Rebecca Battaglia, 30, who lives at the same State Street address, was arrested for allegedly sending text messages to her brother about hiding the pellet gun, Salcedo said. She was charged with obstructing justice and hindering prosecution. The pellet gun was recovered inside their apartment, Salcedo said. Nicholas Battaglia was being held Friday at the Bergen County jail in Hackensack in lieu of $75,000 cash bail. He also was charged with tampering with evidence, according to jail records. Rebecca Battaglia was issued summonses and released, Salcedo said. The first victim was a 31-year-old woman who heard two popping noises and felt a burning sensation in the back of one of her legs as she walked with her 9-year-old daughter in a Pizza Hut restaurant parking lot at 9:15 p.m., Salcedo said. He said she sought treatment at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, where a pellet was removed. Police also found a chip in the Pizza Hut building that also appeared to have been caused by a pellet, he said. Eleven days later, Salcedo said, a 22-year-old man was walking across the same parking lot at 6 p.m. when he also heard two pops and felt a burning in his leg. The victim removed a pellet that pierced his skin and discovered that another pellet had hit the book bag he was carrying, Salcedo said.

From the CT website (nothing new here) - http://www.ct.gov/de...ew.asp?Q=517284 No, the coastal media is not going to let anyone forget Sandy Hook anytime soon. http://www.washingto...ewtown-victims/ TAMPA, FLA. (AP) - The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will honor the community of Newtown and the memory of those killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School when the teams play opening day April 1 at Yankee Stadium. Pregame ceremonies include a joint honor guard of Newtown police and firefighters, and a moment of silence at which time a list of the victims’ names will be recognized on the center-field scoreboard. The Yankees and Red Sox will wear a special ribbon on their uniforms. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has asked that all other 28 major league teams wear the ribbon during their opening games.

In the lug under the chamber that mates up to the hinge pin, there is a cross pin that can be drifted out to remove the ejector spring for the 20 ga. extractor/ejector. Some have an additional trip mechanism, some do not. Make sure your chamber is clean and free from rust or shells may hang up on the rough chamber walls. 24's are unique little guns. Like anything else discontinued, they have developed a cult following and have gone up in price in the last few years. Some of the infrequently seen combo's command high prices now. Shotgun tubes could be had with a .410, .20 ga., or 12 ga. barrel paired with .22LR, .22 Mag., .222, .223, .357 mag., .30-30, .308. There's a website and forum page for the Savage 24: http://www.savage24.com/

Should be a High Standard Model 60 then. Check the cartridge stops and carrier mounted in the frame that are held in by small vertical pins and wire spring clips. Something is either missing, bent or broken.

Try posting a photo or two. This should be a High Standard pump.

Are the shell stops functioning? (Are all the parts intact? I.E. Did you check against a parts schematic?) What's the "floor plate?" Do you mean the carrier?

I just knew they existed....................................

An excellent article and counterpoint to Cuomo's shameful SAFE Act from the National Review Online. Rushed law is bad law, even when it’s “for the children.” http://www.nationalr...-c-w-cooke?pg=1

One man's response to radical change.

http://www.benchrest.com/shooterscorner/

Hunting preserves and semi-wild management operations offer game hunting into April. They can run independent of statewide game seasons and Federal migratory flyway regs.

60's era Marlin 39's pistol grip straight-grip

Very nice. These are great shooters. For disassembly reference: http://stevespages.c...marlin-39a.html

$299 is a good price for a Wingmaster. Dings and scratches lend character. Don't let these blemishes bother you so much.

Once broken down, and when you slide the breechblock (bolt) out to the right of the receiver, the firing pin lifts right off the top of the breechblock. Very easy to replace.