There is something most people don’t know, you can take the 39A rifle with a coin.
What does that mean?
“Take down”
” ‘...There is something most people don’t know, you can take the 39A rifle with a coin.’
What does that mean?” [Hot Tabasco, post 23]
Author may be referring to the takedown feature of Marlin’s 39.
There’s a large-head knurled screw on the right side of the receiver. There’s a large slot in the head, wide enough to accommodate a coin. The slot bottom is curved to match a coin’s edge.
Takedown was a feature on a number of 22 rifles before WW2: Remington’s 12 and 121, Winchester’s 61, 1890, 1906, and 62 all sported a screw of this type. It was captive: you could unscrew it but it couldn’t be pulled all the way out.
Original article looks like another case of strange phrasing and sloppy editing.