Chances are that a detailed cleaning will take care of the problem. People sometimes ran those guns for a thousand rounds or more with no maintenance whatsoever until the rifle quit working. Those were good, accurate .22 rifles. Hope you get it running right.

 

I have a couple of them from that era. Good rifles.. Here with a bolt action sibling.
I'll add the acquisition story for fun. As a builder I had some clients who were an older pair of ladies with a big rambling house always in need of something. In the past I had added several rooms, covered patios, an RV barn, etc to the place. They knew I hunted and shot and one day the older one asked if I might be interested in a couple old guns, a .22 of hers and a shotgun that had been her dads. Of course I said sure, so she says she'll get around to digging them out. The next time I'm there she says she found the shotgun, an old Stevens 311 in 20ga and would I give $200 for it? Well it was in great condition so I agreed and it went home with me. About a year or so later and I'm there again helping with some repair and ask about the .22. Oh yes she replies, I found it. I'll show you before you leave. End of the day rolls around and she goes digging in the closet, comes out with a Model 60. Says she'd like $100 for it. Again it was in excellent condition just covered with dust and lint. Her dad had gotten it for her in the early '70s to hunt with him and she hadn't fired it since probably around 1980 when he died. So I agree and then she says I found this one too and it is a Marlin 780 bolt action, so you should take it too as a freebie. I thank her and then she hands me a Crosman break barrel pellet rifle and says might as well take this too. So I give her $100 and take them to my truck. About then her partner shows up and comments that she's glad I got the guns. She then says I never billed her for some silly thing I did as a favor to her and I told her not to worry about it. She spots the $100 bill on the table and grabs it, hands it to me and says here, now we're even! I chuckle and the partner stands there in surprise but doesn't say a word.
The other Model 60 came from my older brother, not a gun guy at all. He had mentioned a few years back one of his elderly neighbors had moved and asked him to go pick up a rifle he left in the garage along with some yard tools. He never mentioned it again other to say the old neighbor had died a couple years later. For some reason I remembered the mystery rifle and asked him about it. He acted confused and then remembered what I was talking about so he rummaged around in his garden shed and found it where he had put it when putting the tools he was given at the same time in there. He didn't tell me he found it but my nephew told him to give it to me for a birthday gift. So he did, and as it turned out there was also a Stevens 940 single shot .410 there as well. So he gave them both to me, luckily not too rough since we are in a very dry climate and they were just leaning against the back of a shed for all those years. The Model 60 still had an adhesive label on the forend giving safety warnings and other info. It likely hadn't been shot a box worth. So that's my Model 60 tale, two near new semi-auto rifles and a bolt sidekick all for the grand sum of $0.00. All '70s, a'74 and '77 60s and the 780 a '72.

 

My 1974 Glenfield is my favorite and most accurate 22 rimfire.

 

That is definitely it. He asked me to put a scope on it too so I ordered a Simmons 4x32. His stock could also stand to be refinished. There's places where the finish is gone. I'm going to just get it in working order for now and only charge him for parts.

 

Here's mine from 1977. My first gun and it still shoots great.

 

Mine are early models, the 60, 75, and 99. The 99 is a friends I cleaned up , and added a red dot for him. I love the 10/22 have two of them but still enjoy the 60 and 75. Both of mine I inherited from my uncle that passed away. So I think of him when ever I enjoy those 2.

 

I have considered a red dot on my Revelation by Western Auto. Care to share the process of mounting one? BTW, yours are in much better condition than mine has been in for the last several decades.

 

I sold mine 😕

I never shot it after getting 10/22’s. There isn’t much room in my safe for “queens”. I need an another safe.

 

Dont we all need another safe. 😁

 

I found two model 60's at a pawn shop for $100 each not too long ago. I suspect they were there because they weren't reliable and had trouble feeding and ejecting. Both just needed a good cleaning and are now reliable and accurate guns. I don't clean my guns after every range trip but damn, how do you let a firearm get so dirty that it won't function and then get rid of it instead of taking a few minutes to clean it? Oh well, good for me that these become available cheap.

 

My grandson bought this model 60 W at a yard sale for $100 and stripped it down to the bare wood. The scope came off my 2020 Mod 60 SB

 

When I ran a gun shop for a friend, I saw a bunch of those come in the shop for service. Almost all were completely packed full of unburned powder, carbon, lead and wax. I also saw a bunch with the buffer disintegrating. We always kept a couple buffers in stock since we did so many. It was always a real chore replacing the buffer and then getting the trigger action back together.

 

This my model 60. Previous owner put a 4x16 scope on it and I've left on just because.... I can zoom in a fly's butt and hit it 🤣

This is also my most accurate. 22LR

 

When I was newly married, we went to her family's home deep in the hills of eastern Kentucky, a mile & 1/2 back in a hollar. Her brother & I went squirrel hunting and he took along their old Glenfield M60 but it would only work as a single shot. When we got back to the house I asked for a screw driver, an empty coffee can and some gasoline. I proceeded to disassemble the old M60 & found the action and receiver completely packed full of gunk. There is no telling how many rounds that rifle had fired and it was obvious it had never been cleaned. Remarkably, the barrel was actually very clean. After I put the gun back together, her brother proceeded to put a full magazine full of rounds through it without a single hangup. From that point forward, I was accepted into and treated like one of the family, in a good way. Not bad for a "city" boy.

 

Here is its black sheep brother, a Model 70 removable mag fed.

 

The best 22lr, or they wouldn't have sold over 7 million.

 

Sounds like an advertisement for a McDonalds hamburger.

 

Here's what I found after taking it apart. A good cleaning is really all it needs. The buffer even seems to be intact but I will replace it anyway since I have already ordered a new one.

 

I probably have the original scope from my stainless 60 in a drawer somewhere. I upgraded it to a fixed power 4x32 shortly after I bought it.

 

I have the original off mine, I replaced it, will snap a photo and add it here later. On the shelf in my shop.

 

For stock, out of the box guns I have always preferred the Marlin 60 family of guns over the 10-22.
But, if you want to spend endless money from now until the end of time "improving" a gun, of course get the 10-22.

 

You've started some chit now.

I don't own a 10-22. I was going to buy one for my granddaughters to target shoot with but I couldn't find a basic wood stocked one in stock anywhere. Then I got a really good price on the 60 SB when Walmart was disarming.

 

I want to say when I bought mine around 1978 they were like $60? Brick of thunderbolts was like $5? And the wax on the thunderbolt ammo gummed it up pretty quickly.

 

I never had a model 60 or a 10-22.
I think I am the ONLY American born shooter in such a sorry state. I envy ya'll
My family went the savage/sears/monkey wards route

 

Have a few of those too. 😉

 

Guilty on the 10/22's as well.

 

My 60s

 

I decided that I will refinish the stock since I'm waiting for parts. I'm going to strip it tonight then start layering it with Tru-Oil. I haven't figured out how I am going to darken the carved out parts of the squirrels and other engraved parts.

 

Maybe start with min-wax gunstock stain and mix with dabs of dark walnut testing on a similar material until you get what you are looking for. Gunstock by its self may be dark enough.

 

I bought my Model60 back in the 80's. I remember I bought it at K-mart cuz I had to meander halfway around the store to avoid the "Blue-light" ladies!
Not surprised at all about this one being all fouled-up. model60's do lead foul pretty quickly and an ignorant user will just dump it and blame the gun.
A very accurate shooter! Finding decent rimfire is more of an issue than the rifle. Mine likes Minimags.

 

The Model 60 is one of the best first guns / woods guns out of the box ever. Ruger would be crazy not to keep it going. The 10/22 fills all kinds of other niches. They don’t need to compete. They just need to market it correctly.

Unfortunately, marketing has never been Ruger’s strong suit.

 

Agreed. Really I think it's like comparing a ford and a chevy from the 70's and 80's both will suit you well, but have their own following, and detractors.


I love both designs , but I think my favorite all time is the nylon 66, their is just something special about it.

 

I have my dad's Glenfield Model 60 with squirrel stock, made in 1972. I liked it as a kid, but it always had problems with feeding: jamming, mangling bullets, etc. I moved away, years passed, my dad passed away, and then I thought I'd figure out the problem and get it working properly as a memory of him.

So... it turns out this time period (1970s? I don't remember specific dates but you can look it up) had a really bad design flaw: they had a 2-piece feed throat (split down the middle, lengthwise) that would spread and then there would be malfunctions with feeding. But later (in the 1980s?) Marlin replaced this with a one-piece feed throat that you can get and retrofit to guns with the old 2-piece type.

It only takes some simple modifications, the most involved is due to the fact that the new feed throat has 4 lugs that attach it to the action side plates but the old 2-piece only had 3 (which probably did not help things). After my past experiences with this extremely frustrating problem, I wanted the feed throat to be as stable and locked in place as possible so I drilled a 4th hole in the side-plate for maximum engagement of all 4 lugs. I mention this because some people just grind off one of the lugs from the feed throat, and then only have 3 lugs attaching it to the side plates. I much preferred 4 lugs so I drilled another hole. I also had to reshape some of the feed throat with a dremel to work with the bolt of my gun (not the feed ramp part but some of the side structure). I suppose you could also replace your bolt with the type from the newer guns but I didn't see any reason to do that and just made it work with the existing bolt.

Anyway it was a completely successful project and I have never had another feed malfunction. So if you have one from the 1970s and have feed problems, maybe take a look and see if you have the 2-piece feed throat and think about upgrading to the reliable 1 piece.

 

My Glenfield Model 60 disappeared from my parents’ house when I was on my first tour in Korea, along with my album collection. At one time my younger brother had substance abuse issues. I replaced it a couple of years later with an old used Nylon 66. I still have that one along with a 597 from the Walmart “purge” and a couple of 10-22s.

 

I have had two Model 60s. First one was a Glenfield I bought for $20 in the 70s in as-new condition, I shot tens of thousands of rounds through it, and a blond-stocked Marlin at a yard sale for $50 ten or so years ago., scoped it with a Weaver V7