I finally got a mint condition Marlin M-39A .22 lever rifle.

[Adam Helmer]

In the early 1960s, I kept the garden-raiding woodchucks at bay with my older brother's Marlin M39A lever rifle. In August 1962, I went into the Air Force and never got home again, nor did I ever see that neat .22 lever action .22 again.

Recently, a friend and neighbor advised me he had a .22 rifle to sell. I drove old tractor over and checked out the rifle. It was a .22 caliber Marlin M39A Lever action, new in the box, that he purchased in 1967 and never fired. He asked me to bushog several of his hayfields in exchange for the rifle. I just got off the John Deere 4065E towing a 6-foot bushog. This .22 is legal for PA squirrel hunting and this 39A will be in my West Woods come October.

Country Matters.

Adam