Tale of the $10 Ithaca 22 Rifle

[foghornl]

That little rifle cleaned up very nicely...good looking shootin' iron

My cheap rifle story isn't that good, but my OLD Marlin 99 is a $20 pawnshop rescue...

When I first got it, it wouldn't reliably cycle ANY ammo, including CCI Mini-mags. I worked the action by hand a few times, and it sounded and felt like I was stirring up a bucket of sand-n-gravel. Finally got the action out of the stock, and swizzled it around in a bucket of Mineral Spirits for a couple of hours. Let it dry, and put everything back together. Hasn't missed a beat since then, even with plain-lead Rem Thunderbolts. I REALLY need to refinish it, though...looks like it was "Krylon-ed"...home-spray painted with black hi-temp grill paint.

 

[hang fire]

Many years ago when lived in AK, I used to haunt Elmer Hightower's gun shop few miles out of Seward. He always had a barrel or two full of NDN, Aleut and Inuit guns he kept for spare parts. Some had been nice guns in their day, but most looked like rusted up badly used and abused tools, muzzles with notches cut in them, stove pokers for wood fires &c.

 

[Centurian22]

Very impressive. I would LOVE to find and or take on a project like this. Congrats on your $10 'investment'!!! Beautiful!

 

[jrdolall]

The roadster is a 1952 MG missing the engine and the bonnet. It is completely rusted out and needs a total restoration. It was sitting in the barn when I bought the place. If I decide I want to spend $20k I will get it restored and cruise around.