further dismantling-and such is discouraged by the Winchester manual. Now, with all that said, without seeing your Mountie, we cannot say for sure if your wood has been reshaped and refinished or not. The classic Marlin 39A is a long 24 barreled rifle, with a pistol grip stock. They even came up with a process to attach butt plate and spacer, sand to fit, then stain everything without having to remove the butt plate to finish, saving that step to remove then reattach the butt plate later. Marlin did stain their stocks to even out eh color. Sometimes you would get an extra nice piece of wood, others, it would be quite plain. We offer these manuals only as a courtesy to pre-Ruger Marlin firearms owners. Marlin, for the most part, used the wood that came up in the wood pile, whether fancy or plain. The flutes in the comb were eliminated around 1976 making the more pointed comb. That did change later to the more slim style as you have. The Model 39 Mounties always had a slimmer style forearm and not some much of a pronounced 'bump' at the receiver. It was his idea, and that was maintained even when Marlin was told by people that they did not like it and wanted the slim style forearms. The large, beavertail style forearms on the 39-A's was Frank Kenna's pet project. The wallnut is also darker and I think of a slightly higher grade than I see on many 39's.ĭoes anyone have information on 1976 production and were there any The butstock is also slimmer and has a sharp nose at the front of the comb and no flutes. The Marlin Golden 39A Mountie 22 S/L/LR is a lever-action rifle in excellent condition. The forend wood is slim and almost even with the metal at the reciever and forend cap unlike the regular semi-bevertail style. Unlike most 39's the stock is not in the modern oversize style. The stock which is also perfect is where I have a question. There is not one screw that looks like it has ever been touched. The gun is in like new just out of the box 99.9% condition. The serial number, 24XXXXXX indicates it was mfg. Yesterday I bought an 'Original Golden 39M' as marked on the barrel.

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