Ammo performance in 39A also FTFire & FTEject

[garand308]

No I don't think that Marlin ships all their defective Marlin 39A's to Canada. I'm a yank and when I decided that I wanted to add a Marlin 39A to my collection I went to my local gunsmith that I have dealt with for years and told him to order a new Marlin 39A for me. He said no you don't want me to do that. I ask why not. He said that he already has too many unhappy customers with Marlin's that he has sold to his customers. He stated that Marlin has some grave quality control problems. He said I would be better off trying to find an old one....he told me the best ones were made in the late 1940's to late 1970's. So after looking for over 2 months I found a mint 1965 39A for $ 300.00 dollars. It functions flawlessly...I fired over 350 rounds through it and no malfunctions and it is very very accurate. Marlin better get their act together and take a serious look at their Q.A. department and maybe some top level management people as well. And if they don't they will just make my new/old Marlin go up in value.

[Nematocyst]

Checking in here with a sick 39. Swany sent me.

I've been having failure to fire issues with my relatively new 39A. The rifle is actually over a year and a half old, but due to severe workload, has only made it to the range three times.

I was getting about 3 to 5 FTfire per magazine with CCI  minimags and American Eagle. Took it to my smith, who shot two boxes of ammo, one each Remington and Federal. No misfires. Not a single one.

His advice: change ammo. He doesn't like CCI, claiming their quality is not as good. I haven't been able to try any other ammo yet.

I'm going to read this thread more carefully soon, and consider this hammer strut modification mentioned in the OP. But I may try some other ammo first, just for completeness.

[Justin]

I found this website trying to find out what was the matter with my new 39A (bought less than one month ago). Numerous misfires, fail to extract and fail to eject, all three malfunctions in one brand new rifle with less than 300 rounds through the barrel. Finally parked the Marlin and went back to my old Winchester, which has never given me any problems since getting it new (for Christmas) in 1956. Exceptionally disappointed with the Marlin.