Well, the little rifle just came in this week and some evening chores got in the way of picking it up until yesterday evening. It’s just as ugly as the pictures lead us to believe. The good news is that the laser sight is like new, and the glue flakes off pretty easily. It looks like somebody tried to use fiberglass resin to hold a single scopemount part which is actually fairly rigid, but not appropriate so it will come off. The “sling” was a braided nylon type material, and seemed exactly like the stuff that I once re-laced a wicker rocking chair with. That has been cut off. The crazy thing though is that the “sling” “mounts” were pieces of carbon steel heavy gauge wire which were inserted through holes drilled into the stock and then folded around to meet each other and welded into place. It’s probably a good thing I wasn’t planning to keep the stock anyway.
It does shoot, and it has a much cleaner trigger break than what my other crickets ever had, likely from being polished through use. It makes me wonder what the rifle was used for... the laser and stock seem to scream coon hunter or trapper but could easily also be a hog lot gun or something similar. It will have a better life now.
I have seen this doohickey before but I can’t figure out what it is. Anybody know what it is right off hand? Laser? Light? It’s on top of a crickett 22 and would block the sights. It looks almost as though the gun has been used for coon hunting or trapping so a combo laser/light is another option. Anyways, I bought the rifle for the rifle, and this doohickey will be coming off, likely to the trash can or to the pay it forward thread depending upon what it is and if it works or not.
