Finally pulled one of my "project" rifles out to see how it shoots before I go all in on fixing it.
This one is a 1978 Marlin Model 99c (Same as the Model 60 but with a walnut stock and brass inner mag tube).
The front sight is missing, the bullseye in the stock is missing, the butt stock is cracked, and it's filthy inside. I put a cheap BSA scope on it that has seen better days itself and didn't even clean the rifle. I then punished it with about 100 rounds of Thunderbolts that were 10 years old and had questionable storage history.....
I made through with only a few failures to extract on what were obviously under powered rounds. (Thunderbolts suck!!)
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This is the target at 50 yards, trough the woods, with a somewhat stable rest, questionable 4x scope on a set of old $3 air gun scope rings, and HIGHLY questionable ammo...
2" group not counting the flyers. (1 was obviously under powered and 1 hit a tree branch.) I'm satisfied under these circumstances.
And here is the rifle.
This one is a 1978 Marlin Model 99c (Same as the Model 60 but with a walnut stock and brass inner mag tube).
The front sight is missing, the bullseye in the stock is missing, the butt stock is cracked, and it's filthy inside. I put a cheap BSA scope on it that has seen better days itself and didn't even clean the rifle. I then punished it with about 100 rounds of Thunderbolts that were 10 years old and had questionable storage history.....
I made through with only a few failures to extract on what were obviously under powered rounds. (Thunderbolts suck!!)
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This is the target at 50 yards, trough the woods, with a somewhat stable rest, questionable 4x scope on a set of old $3 air gun scope rings, and HIGHLY questionable ammo...
2" group not counting the flyers. (1 was obviously under powered and 1 hit a tree branch.) I'm satisfied under these circumstances.
And here is the rifle.
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