Thread: Marlin 22lr levermatic

As a kid and teenager we had a 57M which was the 22mag version with a 4x scope. was a very nice shooter. I took a lot of goats and possums with it and Dad took the odd deer as well.
By recollection it was a nice looking rifle, shoot well The short throw lever made it a very fast handling when taking on a mob of goats with the spot light. (was doing pest control out the back of Huntly)
Was probably a little on the heavy side compared to some of the lever rifles. Had a large tube mag capacity.
The only fault it had which is common to tube mags was that the plastic follower broke and it would sometime retain a round in the sleeve only to pop up in the action some weeks later.
Zq