rangervoss
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Hello All. This is my first new thread post so forgive me if it isn't perfect.
It's hard to get really good pics of a restore but I think it hits the highlights. The history of the gun. Well that's interesting. A buddy of mine bought a farm house and in the hog shed in a pile of trash was this gun. Literally it was laying in trash bags, straw, and whanot. He brought the gun to me and with a grin asked me to "fix it up for him."
As you can see it was in fairly rough shape.
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After I polished it I noticed that the pitting was not too heavy. In fact, it looked rather protected from the layer of rust it had. I spent a few more hours on it before I put it in my blue tanks and polished the aluminum receiver and coated it with Aluma Hyde II in matte black and recoated it with clear gloss. The stock just required stripping and then I refinished with tung oil finish. Not tung oil mind you, but the finish. I was hoping for a lighter finish and was not disappointed. A little work on the extractor and it worked like a charm. I did not put it on paper as we have been around zero degrees here for too long. Needless to say my friend was quite pleased and extremely surprised. The look on his face was satisfaction enough for me!
It's hard to get really good pics of a restore but I think it hits the highlights. The history of the gun. Well that's interesting. A buddy of mine bought a farm house and in the hog shed in a pile of trash was this gun. Literally it was laying in trash bags, straw, and whanot. He brought the gun to me and with a grin asked me to "fix it up for him."
As you can see it was in fairly rough shape.
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After I polished it I noticed that the pitting was not too heavy. In fact, it looked rather protected from the layer of rust it had. I spent a few more hours on it before I put it in my blue tanks and polished the aluminum receiver and coated it with Aluma Hyde II in matte black and recoated it with clear gloss. The stock just required stripping and then I refinished with tung oil finish. Not tung oil mind you, but the finish. I was hoping for a lighter finish and was not disappointed. A little work on the extractor and it worked like a charm. I did not put it on paper as we have been around zero degrees here for too long. Needless to say my friend was quite pleased and extremely surprised. The look on his face was satisfaction enough for me!
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