MrMarty51
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Sometime back a feller stops by the garage seeking some advice on several 22LR rifles.
Amongst the bunch is this badly abused Century Arms AR7 survival rifle.
Well, the DPO had taken and inscribed on the stock about a birthday gift with His name and date and all that good stuff, then, the second owner took some, must have been fourty grit sandpaper and tried to wipe it all off, along with taking the sandpaper to the barrel. Wjhat a mess.
I give the guy the information that He wanted to know about the rifles and what they might bring on a auction, but, I told Him I might be innerested in the AR7.
Well, a couple of weeks goes by and I finally sees Him again and offered Him 125 bucks for the AR7, We and three other people also made plans to go to "ONE OF THOSE MEETINGS".
The appointed time comes and they all come over and pick Me up and away We go.
About 1/2 ways to the town where the meeting is, He sort of reaches down and starts talking about a firearm and shoves that AR7 back between the seats, exclaiming that that is a gift to Me and that He already has enough money and if He had any more, all He would do would be to invest it and make more money. WOW, I was almost speechless, but, accepted the rifle with a mighty air of humility and thanked Him.
Several more weeks later I finally decide to do something with the AR7 so I get it out of the vault and looking it over I disasembled the receiver and action and thoroughly cleaned everything in solvent and brake and parts cleaner the blew them all dry. lubed it all up with Break Free then started swabbing the barrel, after about an hour of soaking, swabbing, soaking and swabbing the barrel finally started to come clean and i called it good enough.
Assembling the rifle and screwing the barrel to the receiver I then loaded the magazine with its eight rounds, then, pointing the muzzle at My big block of wood, I cycles the action and watches how the bullets slide from the mag, up the ramp and stovepipe at the chamber.
Unloading the magazine I start gently reshaping the mags lips and retrying and after three times I finally get it tuned.
Taking the rifle to My barnshed with the dugout under the floor, I remove the hatch, load a magazine and fire one round, Ha, success, I fire it off as fast as My finner would allow and not one stovepipe or hangup, I reloads the magazine and fires it off real fast like again without a hitch.
Now, about that ugly sand job.
I get back to the garage and remove the barrel from the action and look it over, HMMMMmmmm
I get Me a piece of 80 grit and go to work, sanding out the uneven and gouges from the DPO, sanding around the front sight base very carefully, sanding the front sight and remove any traces of black paint, I sort of like it.
The barrel is aluminum with a steel liner.
Maybe someday I might get the barrel powder coated black but for now, it`ll be sanded aluminum.
Now, the only problem I have is the pieces tend to be very hard to pull from the buttstock. A new is available and will definetely be in the near future purchases.
OH YEAH, Tubby the clown is also crowded in too.
Amongst the bunch is this badly abused Century Arms AR7 survival rifle.
Well, the DPO had taken and inscribed on the stock about a birthday gift with His name and date and all that good stuff, then, the second owner took some, must have been fourty grit sandpaper and tried to wipe it all off, along with taking the sandpaper to the barrel. Wjhat a mess.
I give the guy the information that He wanted to know about the rifles and what they might bring on a auction, but, I told Him I might be innerested in the AR7.
Well, a couple of weeks goes by and I finally sees Him again and offered Him 125 bucks for the AR7, We and three other people also made plans to go to "ONE OF THOSE MEETINGS".
The appointed time comes and they all come over and pick Me up and away We go.
About 1/2 ways to the town where the meeting is, He sort of reaches down and starts talking about a firearm and shoves that AR7 back between the seats, exclaiming that that is a gift to Me and that He already has enough money and if He had any more, all He would do would be to invest it and make more money. WOW, I was almost speechless, but, accepted the rifle with a mighty air of humility and thanked Him.
Several more weeks later I finally decide to do something with the AR7 so I get it out of the vault and looking it over I disasembled the receiver and action and thoroughly cleaned everything in solvent and brake and parts cleaner the blew them all dry. lubed it all up with Break Free then started swabbing the barrel, after about an hour of soaking, swabbing, soaking and swabbing the barrel finally started to come clean and i called it good enough.
Assembling the rifle and screwing the barrel to the receiver I then loaded the magazine with its eight rounds, then, pointing the muzzle at My big block of wood, I cycles the action and watches how the bullets slide from the mag, up the ramp and stovepipe at the chamber.
Unloading the magazine I start gently reshaping the mags lips and retrying and after three times I finally get it tuned.
Taking the rifle to My barnshed with the dugout under the floor, I remove the hatch, load a magazine and fire one round, Ha, success, I fire it off as fast as My finner would allow and not one stovepipe or hangup, I reloads the magazine and fires it off real fast like again without a hitch.
Now, about that ugly sand job.
I get back to the garage and remove the barrel from the action and look it over, HMMMMmmmm
I get Me a piece of 80 grit and go to work, sanding out the uneven and gouges from the DPO, sanding around the front sight base very carefully, sanding the front sight and remove any traces of black paint, I sort of like it.
The barrel is aluminum with a steel liner.
Maybe someday I might get the barrel powder coated black but for now, it`ll be sanded aluminum.
Now, the only problem I have is the pieces tend to be very hard to pull from the buttstock. A new is available and will definetely be in the near future purchases.
OH YEAH, Tubby the clown is also crowded in too.
