need help indentifying
 

my grandpa recently gave me this .22 rifle and i need help identifying it. he said he got it around 1993-95. thanks for the help!

Picture's a little fuzzy for good identification. Any writing on the barrel?

Yes ... a little more info would help. What's written on the barrel, or anywhere for that matter. What kind of identifying marks on the stock? Anything written on the metal underneath the stock? A better set of pictures with multiple angles would help. Off the top of my head it looks like it might be a Marlin bolt .. but it's pretty hard to tell from that one pic.

If it's not a very old firearm, all the information you are asking about should be etched right on the barrel/action.

It appears to be a Marlin.

If I had to guess with that picture, I would agree and say it's a Marlin Glenfield Model 25 like this one.

Topgun right on.

definitely a Marlin/Glenfield #25, bolt action clip from the picture.

Note the give away on the picture is the BACKward safety. These can be very dangerous. Note: when I was backward, the safe position is forward and the rear postion is to the rear. MOST rifles have the safety opposite (the correct way, rearward is SAFE).

I never understood why Marlin would make an obviously dangerous design. Someone said that they made it of a set of drawings that were copied backwar????

If this is your rifle, you must retrain your self to thei backward design.

What makes this worse, is that After YEARS Marlin changed the safety design on this rifle to the proper configuration (safet is now rearward). What makes these rifles even more dangerous today is some are proper and others improper. I happen to have one of each. When I die, my will has the rifle with the wrong safety to be melted down and destroyed.

Like all guns the safety has to be in your head.

Yep, I noticed that when I looked at the picture I posted and wondered how any company could have such a dumb design! I have a 30-30 that looks very similar to this one, but mine has the properly designed system where safe is back and it's not a knob, but rather a very thin piece of metal that slides forward to the fire position.