Critter183
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I acquired one of those Romanian .22 training rifles a few years ago just for the halibut, and it has been sitting around doing nothing all this time. Well last night I got the itch to make it nice and give it to the kid as a "you've outgrown your Lil Buckeroo" present.
The trigger always sucked on it, rough, super heavy pull, just plain ugly, so I took that apart and polished a few surfaces with a fine stone and got things moving nicely. Their machine work on those surfaces looked like a kid got loose with a course die grinder. Once that was done, the trigger worked smooth and now has about a 6lb pull, good for the kid, I think.
Next was getting the bolt to close smoothly. the cut on the receiver that the bolt handle follows when it is closing and cocking also looked like it was cut by a kid with the same course die grinder. I got that smoothed out and polished up, and then did a touch up on the bluing with some Birchwood Casey's Blue in the bottle. Now the bolt opens and closes nice and smooth as well.
But the real sin happened just now, when I got to sanding off the ugly, dark, crappily varnished finish on the stock. When I finally started to get down to some wood, I began to uncover one of the best looking pieces of wood I have ever seen! I mean this thing is worthy of even the finest hunting rifle. The grain is just gorgeous!
Once I get that stock finished, tossing that barrelled action in there is going to hurt. LMAO!!
I may have to go the distance with this thing and polish off all the finish, clean up all their crappy tooling marks and make the action worthy of the wood. Oy Vey, I should have known from it, that it would turn into another crazy project! I'm going to end up with a show quality M69?!!
I don't know what was the worst part. Was it all the crappy workmanship that went into this thing, or was it that they wasted a gorgeous pice of wood on it? Either way, commies are a bunch of dimwits when it comes to making stuff.
The trigger always sucked on it, rough, super heavy pull, just plain ugly, so I took that apart and polished a few surfaces with a fine stone and got things moving nicely. Their machine work on those surfaces looked like a kid got loose with a course die grinder. Once that was done, the trigger worked smooth and now has about a 6lb pull, good for the kid, I think.
Next was getting the bolt to close smoothly. the cut on the receiver that the bolt handle follows when it is closing and cocking also looked like it was cut by a kid with the same course die grinder. I got that smoothed out and polished up, and then did a touch up on the bluing with some Birchwood Casey's Blue in the bottle. Now the bolt opens and closes nice and smooth as well.
But the real sin happened just now, when I got to sanding off the ugly, dark, crappily varnished finish on the stock. When I finally started to get down to some wood, I began to uncover one of the best looking pieces of wood I have ever seen! I mean this thing is worthy of even the finest hunting rifle. The grain is just gorgeous!
Once I get that stock finished, tossing that barrelled action in there is going to hurt. LMAO!!
I may have to go the distance with this thing and polish off all the finish, clean up all their crappy tooling marks and make the action worthy of the wood. Oy Vey, I should have known from it, that it would turn into another crazy project! I'm going to end up with a show quality M69?!!
I don't know what was the worst part. Was it all the crappy workmanship that went into this thing, or was it that they wasted a gorgeous pice of wood on it? Either way, commies are a bunch of dimwits when it comes to making stuff.
