Another diamond in the ruff followed me home from the gun show today.
H&R Topper 158 in 30-30.
The wood has been horribly redone, solid but ugly. Barrel had a few areas of rust with some light pitting, Bore was dirty and looked bad.
The receiver is in good shape but the case hardening color is mainly gone and turning dark in areas.
Tight lock up, hammer spring is a little weak but still fires the primers off.
Standard square front post sight and a decent Lyman rear fold down.
Gave the outside of the barrel a quick clean and oiling, a little more work and the barrel will look very good. Ran a bore snake down the bore with some gun scrubber and wow the bore is about perfect, not much wear if any.
Kind of guessing it spent a long time as a truck gun?
Going to redo the wood, but stock was stripped of finnish, it will just need a fine sanding and a dark finnish, redo the forearm the same way.
Should be a decent little shooter.
Have a ton of reloading stuff for the 30-30. Should be a fun one with some cast loads!