Asking for opinions on my Marlin model 90

[Harold Pickens]

Wow, I carried a 16 ga recently on a few hunts in South Dakota, sure nothing like that gun.
Wonder if it was used as a trap gun.

[John Davis]

I don't know anything about Marlin 90's and I'm not much on Over and Unders, but I really like this one. What are the chokes? It looks like it might make a heck of a Doubles Trap gun.

[Tennessee Dave]

Originally Posted by John Davis

I don't know anything about Marlin 90's and I'm not much on Over and Unders, but I really like this one. What are the chokes? It looks like it might make a heck of a Doubles Trap gun.

I hate to show my ignorance in this, but I do not know. The barrels are not marked, and I don't have a choke gauge. A dime stops short of going through the top barrel by a half inch but will just go through the bottom barrel.

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by David Livesay

I hate to show my ignorance in this, but I do not know. The barrels are not marked, and I don't have a choke gauge. A dime stops short of going through the top barrel by a half inch but will just go through the bottom barrel.

Sounds like modified and full. From memory I think most dimes are .710. So you probably have more than .030 in the top, a full. That is an old-timers trick to see how tight a 12 gauge barrel was.

[Bill Jolliff]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

Sounds like modified and full. From memory I think most dimes are .710. So you probably have more than .030 in the top, a full. That is an old-timers trick to see how tight a 12 gauge barrel was.

US dimes are about 0.703" diameter. I'm one of the old timers that use a dime to determine 12 gauge chokes. It still works.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Bill Jolliff

US dimes are about 0.703" diameter. I'm one of the old timers that use a dime to determine 12 gauge chokes. It still works.

Yes sir that’s the bore gauge I grew up with for a 12 gauge , float a dime and it was full goes inside modified and if goes inside with more room improved cylinder .

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by John Davis

I don't know anything about Marlin 90's and I'm not much on Over and Unders, but I really like this one. What are the chokes? It looks like it might make a heck of a Doubles Trap gun.

I “had” the O/U you needed ! It was a Remington 32TC 30” with 38 thousandths in each barrel I got it from Feliejn a few years back . Seems to me the gun was made in 35 or 36 if memory serves .