Stevens Maynard Jr

[foesgth]

Danth,


PM me your address and I will trace mine and mail it to you. It should be easy to make one from an old fence board!

[Danth]

Thanks much. PM inbound.

[foesgth]

My Manyard is too small for me. However, my wife thinks it is just right! I shoot a Stevens Favorite. They are both accurate for 100+ year old rifles. I was practicing on the rimfire silhouette range today. I got 2 out of 5 rams with the original sights. I think if I got an aperture sight I would do much better. I have an addiction to old single shot rifles. The biggest problem is finding ammo they like. Standard velocity 22 are hard to extract. I have been using CCI Quiet and they will extract.

[Danth]

The Maynard project is coming along fine, but I picked up another which prompts this question. Clearly, the wood on most Maynard Jrs. is nothing more than a shaped board with rounded corners. Every once in a while one comes along with a contoured stock. This last Maynard has the contoured stock. Anyone know the history of flat vs contoured stocks for the Maynard Jr? Could this be a Little Scout stock that coincidentally fits the Maynard?

[uscra112]

The contoured one is later, but because all the Stevens records were destroyed we can only guess at dates.

[Chev. William]

My Manyard is too small for me. However, my wife thinks it is just right! I shoot a Stevens Favorite. They are both accurate for 100+ year old rifles. I was practicing on the rimfire silhouette range today. I got 2 out of 5 rams with the original sights. I think if I got an aperture sight I would do much better. I have an addiction to old single shot rifles. The biggest problem is finding ammo they like. Standard velocity 22 are hard to extract. I have been using CCI Quiet and they will extract.

You might be 'fighting' the residue from firing shorts in a long chamber. That can result in a ring of hard carbon build up in the chamber, resulting 8nhard extraction of longs, or long rifles, fired later.

Your chamber may need a very heavy cleaning to remove such a deposit.

Chev. William