Glenfield Marlin

[SmithAC]

A friend has a Glenfield for sale, made by Marlin, I assume these are the same quality in terms of action and barrel. The wood is birch and I think he said it had a 24inch round barrel. Will sell for $175. Anything that the buyer(me) should beware about? I will look at it on monday.
I sold a 336 several yeas ago which I should have never done. Any comments would be appreciated.
Craig

[.308 Win.]

  Many years back I had a Glenfield Marlin.  If I am not mistaken another company made this rifle for Marlin but the one I had was excellent and tough as nails.  It shot well, too.  A family member was interested in hunting deer and I gave it to him.  As far as I know, he is still using it. 

[35Rem]

Don't think anyone BUT Marlin made them.  Just a discount version, the only discount is that it has a Birch, or hardwood stock in place of the Black Walnut.  That feature made them cheaper, but not worse shooters.  They are good guns.

Not sure about the 24" barrel, though, more than likely 20", but I could be wrong.

Not a terrible price, not knowing the condition or add ons makes it a WAG (Wild --- Guess) from here, though.

[.308 Win.]

35Rem,
  You are right about the manufacture of the Glenfield Marlin.  I did some research and it appears Marlin made these rifles to meet a price point for larger retailers like Wal-Mart, K-Mart, etc.  They did not have the Marlin "bulls-eye" and they had stamped checkering and yes, the stocks were birch.  They were made until 1982. Other than that, they are just regular Marlins.  What I was thinking about was that Marlin produced some of the earliest Savage lever guns that became the model 99.  Savage had the idea but didn't have the tooling to produce this rifle, so Marlin was contracted to do it for them.   

[lesgeaux]

I'm looking at a Glenfield Marlin as well for about the same money.  Does this model have the micro rifleing of ballard type, heck I really do not know the difference, but was wondering when Marlin introduced the microgroove.

[Dillohide]

I traded for one a couple years ago and don't know if it's micro grove or ballard rifleing. It doesn't say on the barrel however it is very accurate with the new Hornady Levereloution ammo. My model 36 24" barrel which I know is not micro grove doesn't like the new ammo ... it prefers the old 170 grain and very accurate with it.

They are nice rifles. The Glenfield is a Marlin Model 30 with birch instead of walnut stock.

[mutt1]

 I boought one well used last year. 200.00 . Wish I could have payed less although the gun shoots very well and no problems. I like  it. If you can get it for 175.00 , go for it.................MW