Who made the Marlin M49? Was it made by Marlin or someone else?

Amazing what you can do with pot metal.

gnoahhh wrote on Sep 30^th, 2023 at 6:34pm:


Yes, exactly! I was long ago diagnosed with CRS...

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.

And then there was a Stevens martini, I think?

gwahir wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2023 at 5:13am:

Stevens model 89.

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 ...

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.

I was born in 66 and i Didn’t shoot at Coyote until they shut down Sharp Park in Pacifica.
F. Bob Chow and his wife shot with my dad's fishing and sailing buddy George Gonsalves.I never met Bob but apparently  his wife was quite a shot herself.
I worked at Tabors on El Camino sometimes when he needed help.

I shot high-power at Los Altos and Chabot.
back in the 70,'s and 80's the Bay 
Area was a pretty decent place to be a gun nut.Then came Boxer Pelosi and Feinstein...

Shot HP at Chabot a couple times. Mostly San Jose, Zouaves. Wound up club pres' for awhile. And on to Coalinga for the 'real' matches, got my badge there.

Funny thing, maybe ... I never had any interest in shooting competitively...

Zouaves was a place to shoot my surplus military 'junk' at 200 yds. First iteration of the 'assault weapons ban', 94?, club member organized a '2nd ammendment match'

I shot it to support the movement. A couple years later started shooting it for the sport. Hooked ...

Lots of great people I met along the way, Jim O'Connell, Bob Gill, the Coalinga gang, crew from the Sierra Foothills, which includes a huge chunk of the 'Grizzlies' junior team which terrorized Camp Perry for a number of years.

Sure shot wrote on Oct 13^th, 2023 at 6:40pm:


Elms being mostly extinct, you have a collector's item.