I did some horse trading recently, I was selling a gun and the owner of the shop kind of sweetened the pot with an old Remington Improved #6 rifle. It needed some real cleaning up and a buttplate that I ended up finding online. The bore is excellent and the rifling very clean so I took it to the range with some CCI .22 Shorts at around 30 yards. A little playing around with the sights and it will make a nice little squirrel gun.
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Nice acquisition!
Very interesting action. Would you be so kind as to give us more revealing pics of the action, please? I have a barrel or two that I would like to build an action for and am looking for ideas, apart from just being plain interested in that action.
I have this thing about old 22's. My oldest is 1938/9 Mauser but it's actually a very modern action (in my opinion).
Also, it would be fun to see how it shoots with long rifle ammo or is it a shorts only chambering?
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Nice find, hard to beat those old remingtons. That one is from the 30's and you should be able to shoot modern/hv ammo in it if you choose to do so.
Thank you for the photos and info. That’s a nice find.
I too am a fan of old 22s and am quite fond of restoring them to preserve for future shooters so seeing others doing the same is always fun.
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The thing about .22 barrels is, if the bore is good you can clamp whatever barrel you have in a vise and hit the round with a hammer and it will shoot well!
I've seen .22 barrels that were pitted so badly on the outside shoot lights out!
Good score!!
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What , three or four moving parts? Steel and walnut. They should be building them today. Iguess everyone wants lots of moving parts. I am now looking for one.
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It is a very cool action, miniature Remington Rolling Block.
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Nice score.
I had a mint #6 that was 22short only. Original owner gave it to me. He got it when a kid as sales promotion for salve.
Cool find. I picked one of those up a couple of years ago. Sweet little rifle, and you can still get parts for it.
This thread has come around at a perfect time. There is one of these for sale locally and I am going to look at it this weekend.
If the barrel is trashed how much should I expect to pay for a relining?
Thanks,
Steve in N CA
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