A while back I made a trade, and one of those items was a Stainless Marlin Model 60.
I sat on it all winter waiting for it to warm up enough to put a scope on it and sight it in and to play around with it some.
And today was that day. Beautiful nearly 70 degree's and very light occasional breeze. Just what I've been waiting on.
The scope is an old Barska scope that I had put back for a while. Nothing special. Just a small 1.5-6x42 like I had on my 6.8 deer rifle. With me being OCD, I did put a quick coat of silver paint on it just because I thought the black looked tacky
It took me longer than I expected to dial the scope in, but I settled on a 25 yard zero, and I tried out several different bullets to see if there was anything in particular that it liked, and honestly, it did reasonable well with all 3 that I tried just resting the gun across the bed of the truck.
Plenty good enough for a pack rifle for small game.
Top row was 4 shots each of Remington bulk pack
row 2 was 2 shots each of Winchester super x bulk pack (I didn't have many with me)
bottom row was 3 shots each using Remington subsonics
Each bullseye was just traced using a spray paint can
I sat on it all winter waiting for it to warm up enough to put a scope on it and sight it in and to play around with it some.
And today was that day. Beautiful nearly 70 degree's and very light occasional breeze. Just what I've been waiting on.
The scope is an old Barska scope that I had put back for a while. Nothing special. Just a small 1.5-6x42 like I had on my 6.8 deer rifle. With me being OCD, I did put a quick coat of silver paint on it just because I thought the black looked tacky
It took me longer than I expected to dial the scope in, but I settled on a 25 yard zero, and I tried out several different bullets to see if there was anything in particular that it liked, and honestly, it did reasonable well with all 3 that I tried just resting the gun across the bed of the truck.
Plenty good enough for a pack rifle for small game.
Top row was 4 shots each of Remington bulk pack
row 2 was 2 shots each of Winchester super x bulk pack (I didn't have many with me)
bottom row was 3 shots each using Remington subsonics
Each bullseye was just traced using a spray paint can