[Lanthanaas]

I'm new to this site and I've been looking around the forums for a while trying to find this answer. There were a few older threads about these guns, but none answered my question.

I'm actually new to guns entirely as of about a year ago. My wife used to go hunting with her dad and grandpa and she has a 22LR. We were trying to find out how old this gun is.

The barrel has the following on it:
The Marlin Firearms co. North Haven, CT. USA
Model 25n micro-groove barrel Cal. 22LR only

There is also the number 02286579. I don't know if that's a serial number or a part number for the barrel.

Can anyone help?

[Vet47]

Marlin uses a weird system in which the first two digits of the serial number (in your case 02) are subtracted from 100 to give the year of manufacture. Yours would be 1998.

[TNPIRATE]

Maybe this will help.

additionalinfo/Marlin date code.htm

[big shrek]

Yerp, 1998

the 25N, 880, 925 980, & XT22 items all switch around, so if you want to upgrade anything, look for the 800/900 series stocks (like at Boyd's)
and the XT22 trigger group is currently the best OEM bolt-action trigger available

[Lanthanaas]

Thanks for the help, guys!