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Posted: 3/31/2012 5:56:54 PM EDT
I recently got a Marlin "Goose Gun" from my father, but have a question. Everything I have read says that the Goose Gun came with a 36" barrel, yet mine is 28" (does not appear to be cut down). It has a .715" muzzle which I belive is a modified choke. Also, most of the Goose Gun pics I have seen show a much shorter forearm on the stock than the one I have. Mine also has an adjustable rear peep sight. Barrel is marked "Model 55-12 Gauge". What exactly do I have here?
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A Goose Gun gunsmithed to a slug gun for deer/hogs? It does not look cut down, and I do not know how a gunsmith could constrict the muzzle down to a modified choke after chopping the barrel. Quoted:
Does it have a peep sight added at the read of the receiver? Looks like it. If so its been modded for a slug gun It does have a peep sight at the rear of the receiver, but it looks factory, not modified. |
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Also, most of the Goose Gun pics I have seen show a much shorter forearm on the stock than the one I have. My Marlin 55 has a 12 inch forearm measuring form the front of the magazine. Based on a three inch mag in your picture it looks like you have the same. Pictures you have seen may just look like a shorter forearm when they are proportional to a 36" barrel. |
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Also, most of the Goose Gun pics I have seen show a much shorter forearm on the stock than the one I have. My Marlin 55 has a 12 inch forearm measuring form the front of the magazine. Based on a three inch mag in your picture it looks like you have the same. Pictures you have seen may just look like a shorter forearm when they are proportional to a 36" barrel. This is true. I had one years ago and traded it off. The butt pad looks to have been changed or added sometime in the past. So your shotgun may have been modified in the past. The guy who got my goose gun chopped the barrel to twenty-two inches and made a deer slug gun out of it. 
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A Goose Gun gunsmithed to a slug gun for deer/hogs? It does not look cut down, and I do not know how a gunsmith could constrict the muzzle down to a modified choke after chopping the barrel. Quoted:
Does it have a peep sight added at the read of the receiver? Looks like it. If so its been modded for a slug gun It does have a peep sight at the rear of the receiver, but it looks factory, not modified. To my knowledge there was no such factory bolt gun. Pretty sure you have one that has been professionally modified |
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Here's another guess.
My 1997 and 1999 Marlin brochures show a 50 DL model that has a 28" barrel and modified choke. They probably did a small enough run of them that they just used cut down model 55 barrels and didn't bother changing the engravings. They only were offered with compostite stocks those years so someone may have swapped stocks with a model 55. Even Marlin's slug guns were offered with rifle sights so I'd be pretty sure the peep is aftermarket add on. |
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When I was 14 years old, I bought a Marlin/Glenfield Model 50 12 ga. bolt action shotgun with a 28" barrel from Woolco for $75.00. Your shotgun was made the way you see it, the barrel and the two tapped holes in the reciever are factory. The first two digits in the serial number will be the year of manufacture. Mine is 70, so 1970.
I wrote Marlin about getting a reciever sight for it and they told me it was from Lyman and were no longer made (this was 20+ years ago). I gave mine away to a friend that lives on a Christmas tree farm to deal with varmints. |
| Thanks for all of the info guys. So it sounds like this is a factory gun like the Marlin/Glenfield Model 50 (like Gregor mentioned), but marked Marlin Model 55 (like fal72con's). My serial number L212xx, so I have no idea when it was made, but I know my dad had it back in the 60's when I was growing up. |
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