AStone
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Nice shot, TR. What's that scope?
Precisely.
Laughs.Jimbo said:Completely ignored by the assault rifle mob!
Precisely.
Laughs.Jimbo said:Completely ignored by the assault rifle mob!
Ilike, here's a suggestion.Ilike said:... though the lever's a bit stiffer than butter so I'll have a 'smith work on that when the $ and timing happen.
I have a Brockman lever on the 336 and the Wild West on the 1895. These bigger loops aren't as crazy as the on Wayne had in his movies. I'm happy with both styles. Just a thought. Since you wear gloves a slightly larger loop will help.^ That's interesting, Irish. Thanks for the perspective.
I think what I'll do is keep both levers in the kit. Since I wear gloves here three seasons (fall, winter, spring), I think a big one will work well since I always had a little extra trouble fitting the glove into the stock lever.
For summer, I can put the stock back on again, then back to the big 'un for fall.
Wow! Two new members in consecutive posts. How cool is that?
Welcome in ILikeOldGunsILikeNewGuns and Lerk.
(To the former, what's a 3 or 5 letter nickname for you? Ilike? )
Good thing there's no requirement that new members read the entire thread before joining 'the club'. We'd never get any new members.
Ilike, here's a suggestion.
Jump ahead in your reading to post 777. That's where I started describing my process of taking my 336 down as far as I could to do a home smoothing job. (Posts downstream from that add more of my process.)
When I started, I had no idea what I was doing, but with the help of others here, and the right tools (which I had to buy on line), I got the job done. A little sanding/emery paper here and there, with a lot of gentleness (go easy; you can take off more later, but you can't put metal back on after you've removed it), and it smoothed it up real nice. Not as good as a smith would have done, but still good.
And the added benefit: I learned a LOT about my rifle. Taking it apart that far, handling every screw (each labeled on the desk as for where it came from - each is different - so I got it all back together the right way - every odd shaped piece, that was a great experience.
That experience contributed more to my bonding with my rifle than any amount of range time.
I sent my 336 to Jim Brockman to have some stuff done to it it was at that point I had him install the lever. He might sell just the lever as well.Sheep, do you have a source for the Brockman's?
I'm having trouble finding them for some reason.
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ETA: Oh, check that. I found them here.
Holy cow. I had no idea they're so expensive!
$189 if I keep my stock lever. WT ...?
How can I tell(with out running the S/N #)? I'm supposed to go look at the rifle today. Are the barrels marked differently since the Remington merger?Unless you can establish that it is new but made before 2010