Mystery Rifle
I have a Stevens Model 87D 22 ,Stevens put out the 87D long before they were bought out by the Savage company and became Savage Stevens ,My rifle is marked stevens only,It is an awesome rifle,accurate way beyond any 22 I have ever had,I have the Ruger 10/22 stainless and ill take my old stevens hands down for reliability and accuracy anytime,I have shot this rifle for 40 years easily and it was handed down to me from my grandfather who bought it new when i was a little kid ,and I still remember the day he bought it ,and how prould he was of it then as it was a semiautomatic .Parts are drying up as savage stevens company was sold to someone who no longer supplys or does any work on any of the guns produced by stevens or savage stevens ,unless the guns were produced after they took over the company ,so for parts you have to buy used ones or if anyone is making aftermarket parts now,its a sad situation.I have shot complete bricks of ammo and more before cleaning this gun and had no jams or misfires useing winchester wildcat ammo (which is dirty fireing),All other ammo except remington has worked flawlessly ,for some reason the remington ammo I ever used jammed and I did not get consistant power out of the ammo ,it sounded like there powder load was not consistant resulting in crappy accuracy ,I have not bought any of the remington since,but i could shoot that gun untill it was filthy and it did not jam and accuracy was always top notch.the ranger gun I saw mentioned is not the same as the 87D but looks similar ,it looks more like a carbine model rather than a long barreled rifle like the 87D,there are also other models of the 87 made eariler than the d model in the early 50s,My gun was bought in the early 60s and i will never sell it,its way to fun to shoot and is very easy to clean ,the knob on the back of the reciever is how you break the gun down ,you unscrew that and the bolt,fireing pin come out,you have to remove the charging bolt out of the side of the bolt to remove the bolt completly ,then you can clean the barrel from top to bottom ,its a very simple gun to clean ,I have found the simpler the action is in a gun the more reliable and accurate they seem to be ,just my opnion ,I prefer the AK-47 and the sks to the M-16 or AR-15 as if your out in the woods or anywhere else you do not have to worrie about the little spring loaded small springs getting lost when they shoot out of the gun ,or the many other small parts you dont have to worrie about in the Sks or AK,I compare the ease of maintaining my 87D and relibility to them .Another advantage is cost for the 87D which was 47 bucks new when mine was bought ,the AK and SKs are also very ,very cheap to produce compared to the AR-15,thats why everyone in the world seems to have one,Smal
