Wearing out a gun

[RUGER]

There is a Marlin model 60 in the classified forum and it made me think of this.
When I graduated high school I took some of the money I got and bought me a gun.

I looked at a Remington automatic and the Marlin.
The Marlin was about half the price of the Remington, if not maybe a little cheaper than that.
I do remember it was right at $60.00 so I bought it.

That is the only gun I have ever had in my life that I literally wore out.
It had literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of rounds ran through it.
I have shot it all day every day many many many days.
Literally 2 to 3 thousand rounds a day.
Back then you could buy 22 LR ammo for 99 cents per 50 and bricks were all the time on sale for $9.99. You could even buy good hollowpoint ammo for that alot of times.

Anyway, I would shoot it till it was so dirty it wouldn't fire, take it home, tear it apart, clean it and start over.
I finally wore that gun slap out.
It will fire but won't cycle for squat.
Never have taken the time to look into it to see what is wrong with it.
I am sure it could be fixed but I don't shoot enough any more to even worry about it.

I would like to know how many times it has been shot though.

 

[DaveB]

Here you go, the same $60.00 Marlin Glenfield Model 60, slightly updated.


Brownells has every last piece available for repairs. I know. I broke the plastic recoil lug

 

[pressfit]

I wore out my colt 22 rifle.. exactly the same way.. it quit firing once and the gun smith I carried it to said it was the dirtiest gun he had ever seen...
I got a 12 gauge 1100 that is pretty well gone also.. probably 7-8 thousand shots through it since I bought it new at Walmart in 1982 .. I had to drive a roll pin through the receiver to keep the trigger assembly from falling out from where the hole elongated from all the recoil..

 

[rukiddin]

Gotta buddy who wore out a Rem 1100 410. Best he figured he'd ran round 30k rounds through it. He is a dog trainer and owns a shooting preserve. That was the gun he used for dog training 365 days/year. One day when he shot, everything litterally just fell out of the receiver in pieces.

 

[Hunter 257W]

I've never worn a real gun out (did do so on several BB and pellet guns) but did wear out a lot of parts on one of my Ithaca 37's. For many years I kept every primer box when loading shot shells so I knew exactly how many 12 gauge shells I had fired. I had 2 Ithaca 37's though so I didn't know exactly how many shells had been fired with each gun. I stopped keeping up with the primers when I got around 24,000 but by that time I had replaced a bunch of parts on the 37 that I got when I was 18. I recall these parts: Vent Rib broke into near the rear and that piece fell off(never replaced that), front sight insert fell out, extractor spring, action bar broke loose from the forearm piece twice, pin that held that bar to the bolt carrier also broke into. That gun was the slickest pump gun I'd ever felt right up until the action bar had to be replaced - ever since it's felt like most every other pump I've handled.

 

[infoman jr.]

I've worn a few dozen guns out. None belonged to me though. :smash:

 

[iowavf]

I've had to replace several firing pins, ejectors and couple other moving parts in my BL-22 I bought when I was either 11 or 12. It still is a shooter, but ya I'd hate to think how many bricks of the cheap shells I'd ran through it.

 

[Urban_Hunter]

Grandfather has a model 60 that will not give up the ghost. I couldn't even guess how many rounds, and the Maintenence schedule for my entire life has been as follows: open bolt, spray with brake cleaner til runs clear. Let dry if you have time, if not oh well. Light spray WD40. Load. [emoji1]

 

[playping2]

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