gsbuickman
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I went on the hunt for a Savage Model 6A to replace the one that I had to sell a few years ago during the O'bozo ammo drought. Unfortunately I didn't have any luck locating another 6A from Utica, NY. like I was hoping for, however I did luck into this all original really nice Stevens Savage Model 87a that was made a couple years later after Savage moved from Utica to Chicopee MA, I believe in the late 1940s. It may not be what I was originally looking for but it's a carbon copy of it so that's just fine with me. Before heading home I stopped and picked up 1580 shells to go with it just to get things started off right ...
I've had this olde' clickety clack for awhile now, but I got sidetracked with other things going on and it's been on the back burner & I haven't got around to doing anything with it quite yet. Well, I finally got caught up on things and since this has been D&T'd for optics both on the side and the top of the receiver, I finally started reading a bunch of threads and looking at options for Optic, most of which were on gunboards & rimfirecentral, I decided to do a simple flat 10/22 piccy rail on top of the receiver for now.
I had a couple piccy rails that came with a scout scope Mosin tri-rail that I ordered from opticsplanet a few years ago setting in my pieces and parts box. It had a mounting flange on it that was drilled to fit the old Tri Rail set up that needed to be shaved off, so I grabbed my angle grinder with a metal cutting blade on it and cut the majority of it off in sections to make it easier. Then I put a grinding stone on my angle grinder and used that to almost finish it off, then I used the fine grinding stone on my Dremel to grind it flush with the bottom of the rail. I measured, marked, punched & drilled the rail just to the right of the center of the rail, but leave a little bit more room for shell ejection. I found a nice socket cap head bolt that fit the receiver and ground it to the right links with my angle grinder so it wouldn't interfere with the action when it was snugged down. I was going to paint the bottom of the rail black after doing all that grinding on it, but since it's aluminum it's not going to rust and after reading about guys using black magic and Shoe Goo on Rails for their 22's, I ran a bead of Shoe-Goo down the length of the rail & stuck it in place on the receiver. I put a little blue thread lock on the bolt & got that started in the receiver, then I used my speed Square to Square the rail on the receiver and tightened the bolt down and left it to set and dry overnight. Now that the Shoe Goo has set-up and dried, the rail is rock solid and isn't going anywhere.
I was going to pull my Weaver 4X off my 10/22 & put it on this because the barrel on this is about 8" longer than my 10/22, but for now I decided to throw my Tasco Pro-Point plus #PDP5CMP red dot optic on it. I'll probably end up putting the red dot on my 10/22 and the Weaver on this eventually but this works for now ...
. I went on the hunt for a Savage Model 6A to replace the one that I had to sell a few years ago during the O'bozo ammo drought. Unfortunately I didn't have any luck locating another 6A from Utica, NY. like I was hoping for, however I did luck into this all original really nice Stevens Savage Model 87a that was made a couple years later after Savage moved from Utica to Chicopee MA, I believe in the late 1940s. It may not be what I was originally looking for but it's a carbon copy of it so that's just fine with me. Before heading home I stopped and picked up 1580 shells to go with it just to get things started off right
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I've had this olde' clickety clack for awhile now, but I got sidetracked with other things going on and it's been on the back burner & I haven't got around to doing anything with it quite yet. Well, I finally got caught up on things and since this has been D&T'd for optics both on the side and the top of the receiver, I finally started reading a bunch of threads and looking at options for Optic, most of which were on gunboards & rimfirecentral, I decided to do a simple flat 10/22 piccy rail on top of the receiver for now.
I had a couple piccy rails that came with a scout scope Mosin tri-rail that I ordered from opticsplanet a few years ago setting in my pieces and parts box. It had a mounting flange on it that was drilled to fit the old Tri Rail set up that needed to be shaved off, so I grabbed my angle grinder with a metal cutting blade on it and cut the majority of it off in sections to make it easier. Then I put a grinding stone on my angle grinder and used that to almost finish it off, then I used the fine grinding stone on my Dremel to grind it flush with the bottom of the rail. I measured, marked, punched & drilled the rail just to the right of the center of the rail, but leave a little bit more room for shell ejection. I found a nice socket cap head bolt that fit the receiver and ground it to the right links with my angle grinder so it wouldn't interfere with the action when it was snugged down. I was going to paint the bottom of the rail black after doing all that grinding on it, but since it's aluminum it's not going to rust and after reading about guys using black magic and Shoe Goo on Rails for their 22's, I ran a bead of Shoe-Goo down the length of the rail & stuck it in place on the receiver. I put a little blue thread lock on the bolt & got that started in the receiver, then I used my speed Square to Square the rail on the receiver and tightened the bolt down and left it to set and dry overnight. Now that the Shoe Goo has set-up and dried, the rail is rock solid and isn't going anywhere.
I was going to pull my Weaver 4X off my 10/22 & put it on this because the barrel on this is about 8" longer than my 10/22, but for now I decided to throw my Tasco Pro-Point plus #PDP5CMP red dot optic on it. I'll probably end up putting the red dot on my 10/22 and the Weaver on this eventually but this works for now
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