Thanksgiving in NJ

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Gordon

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Back in NJ this year at my son's house for Thanksgiving. We took out and oiled his two Flinters I gave him many years ago. He belongs to a rifle and pistol club, but no black powder around to shoot them.:(
54 Caliber Pedersoli pistol that shot wonderfully for me 20 year back. And a very Thanksgiving feeling Conneticut Arms .54 Blunderbuss that is very cute and I fired 20 plus years back. The flints are Knapped and spark well, oiled and put away this fine crisp Autumn day.
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Ok tragedy !!! I confess my son in moving and a prior divorce had guns stored in a slightly damp area and some had massive rust.The Greener GP and this Armi Sports rate as hens teeth .22 revolving rifle " Remington" were badly rusted.The Greener cleaned up ok, but when I first tried to cock this neat little .22 I felt the mainspring break. It is made in Italy by Armi Sports. I would say early 80 or 70s.It is timed perfectly but no hammer return tension :( . HELP ! I am not around my big home PC and can't search for parts if any ! I presume it is a snapped leaf type main spring.I don't want to pull gun down into parts and leave back to Oregon.I cleaned and oiled it and put it together. I may have a similar to Remington clone something, main spring .it looks not that easy to access stock and bottom plate and trigger assembly have to be removed. If somebody could give me a lead to find an Army sport revolving carbine parts Id appreciate it.Or maybe an active BP gunsmith on here wants to tackle it and fab or modify something to fit.Like I said gun indexes and locks up perfectly. These are more common in .36 , but I presume main spring is the same. IMG_20211124_164737367.jpg IMG_20211124_164421697.jpg IMG_20211124_164458388.jpg IMG_20211124_164458388.jpg
 
I remember when CVA offered the blunderbuss. An interesting rendition of a famous gun.
The 22 revolving rifle is lighting dim fires in my memory. I believe Navy Arms imported or may still import a 44 caliber version. The mainspring should work, with or without modification.

Kevin
 
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