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< 16ga. Guns Wanted or For Sale ~ Marlin 90's on GunBroker |
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Mon Feb 04, 2019 4:05 pm
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Joined: 30 Dec 2012
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Location: Chocolate City, Florida
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Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:29 am
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Location: Williamsburg, VA
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Thu Feb 07, 2019 3:50 pm
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Nice job. If you like plum's! Just joshing!
Good looking 90 really, not too rough at all. I never noticed, the trigger guard must be the the same malleable iron as the receiver....and that receiver is more golden then the usual plum color, reblue. I wonder what they used?
Barkey is that a 28"? The barrel bluing looks good.
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Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:09 pm
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Seller lists it as 26" barrels. (See Item Characteristics tab) |
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Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:25 pm
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Joined: 26 Oct 2007
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Location: Kentucky
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When you see a model 90 with a red or plum colored receiver it means it has been hot blued. Hot bluing turns the iron receiver the red or plum color. To me it means avoid this gun because who ever did the work had no idea what he was doing.
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Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:01 am
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Joined: 26 Dec 2016
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Location: Kansas
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How were the 90s blued? Rust blue? |
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Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:32 pm
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tdnathens wrote: |
When you see a model 90 with a red or plum colored receiver it means it has been hot blued. Hot bluing turns the iron receiver the red or plum color. To me it means avoid this gun because who ever did the work had no idea what he was doing.
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I don't care for the plum color either, but I have heard others say they like it or don't care what color it is. Besides, how would hot bluing affect the gun mechanically or how it shoots? |
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Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:00 pm
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Nice Model 90 .22/.410 combo on Gunbroker, but no way I would pay $3500 for it.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/798190856
Curious to know where the seller got his information that Marlin Model 90 combos started with serial number 1000, especially since my Model 90 .22/.410 combo with the bird dog scene on the frame has serial number 952.
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Sat Feb 09, 2019 4:46 pm
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BarkeyVA wrote: |
Nice Model 90 .22/.410 combo on Gunbroker, but no way I would pay $3500 for it.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/798190856
Curious to know where the seller got his information that Marlin Model 90 combos started with serial number 1000, especially since my Model 90 .22/.410 combo with the bird dog scene on the frame has serial number 952.
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Cool little gun! Not 3500 cool however... |
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Sat Feb 09, 2019 6:01 pm
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Joined: 23 Jun 2005
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Location: Boulder,Colorado
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I do not believe that a plum color on the receiver is any indication that the gun was reblued - hot or otherwise . I say this because my Dad had a Ranger when I was growing up in the 60's. I know that he never had that reblued. hell he never even shot it at all. It was agift to him from him from my Grandfather who worked at Sears in Chicago. also, I have a friend that inherited two Rangers / Marlins from his Dad and they both had the same color plum. Also, I just bought a Ranger myself and it is the same plum color receiver. Are you trying to tell me that ALL these guns had been reblued ? I just don't believe it. I think that's just the way they were made. |
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Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:53 pm
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I have owned a number of pre-WWII Model 90's including Sears Rangers. None of them had the pIum color.
Col. Brophy wrote on page 419 of his book, Marlin Firearms, A History of the Guns and the Company that Made Them, published by Stackpole Books in 1989, that the Model 90 frame, made of malleable iron "will not blue by the usual bluing methods, but instead turns a dirty brown or plum color." He also wrote that the guns were processed "with an acceptable blue-black finish" before shipment. |
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:15 pm
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Well I won't argue with the Barkley's facts, so I'll have some more crow for dinner. But I'm still mystified by the plum color guns I've seen that I had not thought were re-blued. |
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Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:11 pm
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Joined: 30 Dec 2012
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Location: Chocolate City, Florida
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When your swinging on a bird, receiver color will be the last thing on your mind!
Have fun with your new gun! |
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