Hey,
Has anyone loaded shorts and LR in their 39 magazine AT THE SAME TIME and run into problems?

I don't know why you would want to do it. :p But, I was just wondering if it would work. :rolleyes:

I am inclined to think it shouldn't matter.

Interesting, I don't think it should matter - but I will note, shorts are the only ammunition that I have ever had stay in the mag tube when the gun appeared to be empty.

Interesting, I don't think it should matter - but I will note, shorts are the only ammunition that I have ever had stay in the mag tube when the gun appeared to be empty.

Didn't matter, rifle chambered and fired all of it...CBShorts, HV shorts, longs, and long rifles all mixed. Deals with them one at a time, so if it works with a magazine full of them indivdually, will work with them mixed...at least in this example.

Other than CB longs, aren't likely to run across HV .22longs at most retail stores. Last big batch I bought was becasue the order was made in error...dumbo-the-sales-geek didn't know the difference.

Now I can't immagine why in the world you would ever WANT to, but the Marline seems to take that kind of foolishness in stride.
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Tube mags.: the one place where a plastic part is proably better than a steel one...if that follower is a nice bight orange or red and is visiable when looking down into the action, you can be sure it's "really" empty.

Have taken the steel tube-mag followers out of the guns that use them, lathed a ring arround their tips, and filled that ring with bright ornage paint...when it stops feeding live rounds, will LOOK down into the action to see that ornage ring...if I don't see it, know there is a round or two hung up in the tube waiting to be chambered by accidnet.

I only caught the mistake because I was pretty sure how many rounds were left, and was short 4 or 5.

Agree, plastic has a place there... can't rust, either.

Might be time to paint the follower orange. Still don't know why the gun did that.

I only caught the mistake because I was pretty sure how many rounds were left, and was short 4 or 5.

Agree, plastic has a place there... can't rust, either.

Might be time to paint the follower orange. Still don't know why the gun did that.

Paint on flat steel will just rub off and gunk up the works...better to file a groove arround the follower tip or drill a series of shallow holes...give the paint a recess to hide in so it won't rub off.


Are some versions of tube magazine sthat defy getting an eyeball on the foloower through the open action...I kind of avoid these.

Not the only one that's had a round hang up and lie in wait for the next time someone cycles the action....probably the only real condemnation of tube mags.

Have an old Marlin 27S (32-20) pump...it has a simple hole on the ouside of the magazine tube (mag. tube works like a big .22RF tube mag)...large enough to either see "brass" if there is a round in the tube, or blued steel (the follower if the tube is empty).

Ribbonstone,

Great idea on the mag tube follower. I have a couple of Rossi 62's that could benefit from that modification, especially when my teenage daughters use them more than I do! A great Idea!

"I am inclined to think it shouldn't matter."
IME, it doesn't.
One of the rifles I learned to shoot with was my father's 39A. I can recall filling the tube with about anything that would fit- shorts coated with pocket lint, longs, anything I could scrounge up.
Hey, I was a kid :)
They all fed fine, and killed ferocious tin cans quite adequately.

Gentlemen:

Tube magazine .22 rifles are not allowed on BSA camp ranges (even when used as a single shot), because of the possibility of a hung up round in the magazine.

Ralph