Marlin 60 vs. Ruger 10/22 Actual testing

Is that the 10/22 I traded you? If it is I'm glad to hear it's doing good for you.
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Yep, sure is. :)

Hows the 25MN treating you?

If you can only get 5 shots out of a 60, you either have maintenance or ammo problems. IMHO. They are cheap but not junk. I can get a Ruger to jam with certain types of ammo, but not many.
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I had better reliability with the marlin 60 than with the 10/22. Accuracy was about the same.
How was the reliability factor in your test?
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I never said I could only get five shots out of it. I only loaded five at a time in the magazine because I was doing five shot test groups. I did have two strange failures to cock the firing pin in these test strings. Not sure what is up with that but I plan to detail strip it and retest soon (maybe this weekend, maybe next).

Again I'm not convinced that these results are the best either gun can do. I plan to do a rematch soon with both rifles freshly detail stripped, cleaned and lubed. I also plan to swab the barrels between ammo types and to maybe throw a couple more ammo types into the mix. I might try to do this when someone else is at the range and have both of us shoot both rifles and try to see if I can tease the human factor out of this.
 
Thy are not target rifles and neither is going to shoot like one. They are both a cheap hunting rifle. If you want accuracy then buy a CZ. :p
 
After a couple of days out at the range I can't really say I can draw too many conclusions thus far. It's great having my 60 because I've been out of the routine of shooting very often by virtue of being away from my family's farm and my rifles but a couple of weeks ago upon need to train my fiance in gun handling picked it up and found a local range, and so far it's all rolling along great. Once I get myself back in full form I'll be able to tell if the accuracy constrain lies with it or me. At 25 yards with the cheap stuff it kept a box of shots all on a coffee cup--more testing is definitely needed.
 
Well if you ever get around to upgrading anything I can vouch for
Green Mountain Barrels... they're absolutely top of the line. Certainly
trimmed my groups up quite a bit. The next step of course is either
dropping in a better trigger (you can do quite well with just another
drop in hammer and never even have to replace the sear too) or
try and stone the thing yourself and I think your groups
will tighten up significantly.

rimfirecentral.com has lots of 10/22 guru's with posts explaining
in detail how to lighten your trigger pull without buying anything
else, just be careful if you do it.
 
Found something interesting tonight.....

I detail stripped my Marlin 60 tonight. I was planning a rematch of this test soon but wanted both guns stripped and cleaned first. Well, I found something out about my Marlin. It's got a broken buffer. Plastic parts been rattling around in the action for who knows how long. The buffer fell out in six pieces when I took the action out of the stock. This could explain that weird failure to cock I was having as well as the poor accuracy. Got one on order from Brownells ($7.31). Will update this thread once the new buffer is installed and a retest is done.

Now I feel better.

I was worried about my Marlin after this initial test.
 
My marlin model 60 is very accurate. I can shoot 3in target offhand at 50 yards easily. It only likes to feed roundnose bullets of around 35 grains or so, which is what I prefer anyway. What is with all this 40 grain ammo?
 
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