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 The Marlin model 25M Project 
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just curious, what did you pay for the rifle?

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steveo_1704 wrote:
just curious, what did you pay for the rifle?


You might not believe it, but I paid a whopping $10.00 + tax

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Once again, Casey . . . wow. I love seeing your work!

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TINCANBANDIT wrote:
steveo_1704 wrote:
just curious, what did you pay for the rifle?


You might not believe it, but I paid a whopping $10.00 + tax



wow. just wow..... for $10, i'd buy that rifle and see what i could do with it. since i've not done any restoring, it would prob look worse than when i started ;)

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As always, you do a really good job walking us through the process. Your blog is much appreciated as well with many great projects from start to finish.


Fri Apr 20, 2018 4:30 pm
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You do some nice work Casey. :bow: That Stock turned out great. It really has some nice figure that shows now. :wagwoot:

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Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:13 pm
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thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you guys appreciate the hard work that goes into making these guns look respectable again.

I was able to get some bluing done this weekend and got up early this morning to reassemble 3 guns


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Sun Apr 22, 2018 12:09 pm
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Time to assemble the gun

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I assembled the bolt

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After getting the gun put back together I noticed a few problems:



I noticed the end piece (silver part) would not stay put. There is a small pin in the bolt that is the exact spot to sit in the groove on the firing pin housing.

You can tap in to keep the firing pin housing from coming loose, just a little tap, too far and the housing wont spin and you will have to drill it out to get it apart again

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For some reason the safety was loose, so I found a thin, stainless washer to take up the gap and tighten it up, it now takes some effort to move it and it stays put, just like a good safety should.

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I also noticed the trigger pull got much worse. I installed a snap cap and measured it and got an average of 4 1/2 lbs......

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so I could work over the stainless trigger or go back to the blued one.



A couple of tricks for a lighter pull, one is to stone or sand the trigger sear engagement surfaces, the other is to install a lighter spring. I noticed the spring I removed was the factory spring (the stainless trigger also came with a factory spring and I compared them).

So If I want to use the stainless trigger I need to clean up the engagement surfaces and install a lighter spring.


Someone figured out you can use the spring from a ball point pen, a Papermate Flex Grip pen

The be clear the trigger spring is for trigger reset, the sear has it's own spring and should be left along, the sear spring is what prevents the gun from firing when dropped. Some people have complained of issues with trigger reset when using the lighter spring. This could be caused by friction between the trigger and the post that it pivots on. Something that can be fixed with trigger shims from Triggershims.com


After looking through my collection of springs I found one that fit and was lighter weight, but I couldn't get the trigger to reset properly.

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Then I compared the stainless trigger to the original blued one, the blued one has more contact surface and was definitely smoother.

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Sun Apr 22, 2018 12:18 pm
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So I reinstalled the blued trigger and the original trigger spring and retested the trigger pull, this time we were closer to original 2 lbs, it was about 2 3/4 lbs. The trigger resets reliably, so I can live with this, besides as it wears in again the pull weight will no doubt drop

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Finished!

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Costs for the project:


Rifle: $10.96 (with tax)

Two 7 round magazines: $26

Butt Plate: $1 (gun show purchase)

Butt Plate Screws: $0 (took off another stock)

Sling Stud Set: $6.54

Bipod: $0 (came on another rifle I bought)


Total: $44.50


I don't include the cost of materials & chemicals, hard to calculate that stuff and most of it I already owned.


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Yes, I can see a slight difference between the before and after photos.

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wow. amazing work there. you could probably sell it for at least $150.

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Looking good!

That picture showing the blued and stainless trigger sear engagement surfaces is a great example of some of the changes Marlin (and other companies) made over the years where the old parts were better.

One question - why do you have the bipod mounted that direction? I see some people do that, so there must be a reason, but I haven't figured out what it is. Seems like several disadvantages that way but what's the benefit?


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