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SchwartzStock Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1018 Location: SchwarzWald Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2010	Ithaca Martini? Sep 30^th, 2023 at 6:07pm	Print Post
	Who made the Marlin M49? Was it made by Marlin or someone else?
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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 761 Location: Annapolis, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Marlin Martini? Reply #1 - Sep 30^th, 2023 at 6:34pm	Print Post
	Are you sure you're not thinking of the Ithaca M49 which was a Martini single shot?


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3758 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: Marlin Martini? Reply #2 - Sep 30^th, 2023 at 7:38pm	Print Post
	Amazing what you can do with pot metal.


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Smoke Oldtimer Offline Posts: 650 Location: San Diego Joined: Feb 24^th, 2013	Re: Marlin Martini? Reply #3 - Sep 30^th, 2023 at 7:58pm	Print Post
	SchwartzStock wrote on Sep 30^th, 2023 at 6:07pm: Who made the Marlin M49? Are you asking about the .22 RF or the hammer 12 ga shotgun?


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SchwartzStock Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1018 Location: SchwarzWald Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2010	Re: Marlin Martini? Reply #4 - Oct 1^st, 2023 at 6:19am	Print Post
	gnoahhh wrote on Sep 30^th, 2023 at 6:34pm: Are you sure you're not thinking of the Ithaca M49 which was a Martini single shot? Yes, exactly! I was long ago diagnosed with CRS...

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Sure shot Oldtimer Offline Posts: 838 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: Marlin Martini? Reply #5 - Oct 1^st, 2023 at 7:04am	Print Post
	My first rifle was an Ithaca model 49. Mom and dad bought it for me at age 13 for painting our garage. Very accurate little rifle for being inexpensive. I still have it. I believe that Ithaca made the model 49 in the United States. The model 72 lever action was made by Erma in what was then West Germany.


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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 761 Location: Annapolis, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Marlin Martini? Reply #6 - Oct 1^st, 2023 at 9:05am	Print Post
	They were the odd man out back then - a nifty swinging block single shot in a world of cheap bolt action .22 single shots with which we kids were arming ourselves. The only alternatives were ancient (even then) falling block .22's which were universally known (at least in my neck of the woods) as "cat rifles". While aspiring and conspiring to upgrade to repeaters we did it all with those humble arms. I was a slave to the bolt gun syndrome (Winchester 67) and my best buddy showed off with an Ithaca 49, but of course we traded off frequently. I did make the most astonishing shot of my budding shooting career with that M49, and here I am 60 years later still bragging about it! It was a shot on a crow flying level at around 50 yards distance. Proof of the mid-air shot was in the trail of blood on the fresh snow for about 50 feet terminating in the crumpled black feathered carcass. The "gang" insisted I plinked it while it was sitting still but the evidence of truth was plainly visible. I went on from there to greater heights of (mostly) failed trick shots but that one crack of a .22 will, I'm sure, bring a smile to my face as I draw my last breath! I've considered many times to snag a M49 of my own over the decades but never did.


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craigster Oldtimer Offline Posts: 661 Location: lost coast CA Joined: Feb 20^th, 2011	Re: Marlin Martini? Reply #7 - Oct 2^nd, 2023 at 12:35am	Print Post
	My brother had one when we were kids. Fun little gun, wore it out or maybe it broke.


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gwahir Senior Forum Member Offline Ve gets too soon olt und too late shmart. Posts: 397 Location: montana Joined: Dec 31^st, 2005	Re: Ithaca Martini? Reply #8 - Oct 2^nd, 2023 at 5:13am	Print Post
	And then there was a Stevens martini, I think?


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SchwartzStock Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1018 Location: SchwarzWald Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2010	Re: Marlin Martini? Reply #9 - Oct 2^nd, 2023 at 9:35am	Print Post
	gnoahhh wrote on Oct 1^st, 2023 at 9:05am: I did make the most astonishing shot of my budding shooting career..... but that one crack of a .22 will, I'm sure, bring a smile to my face as I draw my last breath! My most astonishing shot was made at about 40 feet using a Marlin M1 22 (my cousin had the M49). We went rabbit hunting for a few hours without success. As we were crossing through some fields we happened on a spring tine harrow in the travel position with the tines well about the grass. This inspired a little competition. We place small rocks on the bottoms of several tine then backed off for the competition. My cousin couldn't hit his #+^ with both hands... Became my turn, first shot hit the rock with the bullet following up and around the tine and back to me. Hit me right between the eyes. Luckily just a small red mark.....

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Sure shot Oldtimer Offline Posts: 838 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: Ithaca Martini? Reply #10 - Oct 2^nd, 2023 at 11:12am	Print Post
	gwahir wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2023 at 5:13am: And then there was a Stevens martini, I think? Stevens model 89.


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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 761 Location: Annapolis, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Ithaca Martini? Reply #11 - Oct 5^th, 2023 at 12:18pm	Print Post
	Haha! Thanks to this thread and my musing out loud I have now secured an Ithaca 49 from a local forum member. I don't know if I'll ever actually shoot it but at least I'm scratching a 60 year old itch! (Actually now that I think of it, my neighbor's 12 year old boy who's never shot a gun in his life expressed an interest in learning to shoot. This thing may well be the instrument for that!)


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wesg Full Member Offline Posts: 241 Joined: Sep 13^th, 2004	Re: Ithaca Martini? Reply #12 - Oct 12^th, 2023 at 9:11pm	Print Post
	I still have mine. A rough guess being 55'ish years. Dad bought it on a gambling trip to Reno, said he wanted to 'bring something back'. He'd take me to Coyote Point to shoot it, prone, supported on blocks. I haven't shot it in .... no idea how long. I'm gonna take it out one of these days. Hopefully before he passes. Nifty little rifle. Die cast receiver? Yeah, ok. But a walnut stock ...


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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1586 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	Re: Ithaca Martini? Reply #13 - Oct 12^th, 2023 at 9:28pm	Print Post
	wesg wrote on Oct 12^th, 2023 at 9:11pm: I still have mine. A rough guess being 55'ish years. Dad bought it on a gambling trip to Reno, said he wanted to 'bring something back'. He'd take me to Coyote Point to shoot it, prone, supported on blocks. I haven't shot it in .... no idea how long. I'm gonna take it out one of these days. Hopefully before he passes. Nifty little rifle. Die cast receiver? Yeah, ok. But a walnut stock ... Bringing back memories of the Coyote Point range. I spent many an evening there in the 1980's .


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wesg Full Member Offline Posts: 241 Joined: Sep 13^th, 2004	Re: Ithaca Martini? Reply #14 - Oct 12^th, 2023 at 11:05pm	Print Post
	Wow. Another memory, there was a guy shooting offhand with a 'Free Rifle' 1st position from the range office. Article, somewhere, several years ago ... One of the 'Tom's'... Whitaker... or ????? Was a range officer there around that time.... 'We', or maybe just me, were in 'the presence of greatness' ... Adding: He apprenticed under Bob Chow in San Francisco as a pistolsmith.
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