KCSO
12-07-2012, 11:40 AM
55438
Another rescue job, a 1917 came in as a parts gun because the owner had tried to drill and tap it himself for a scope annd had botched the job badly. The gun was a sporter conversion originaly made in the 1950's and the recoil pad was so hard it was flaking off the gun. I ended up welding up the bootched screw holes, one with a wood screw hammered throught ehr Redfield mount in into an ocersized hole, and recontouring and polishing the action. A new recoil pad and a refinish on the stock and a crown on the barrel, (a mint two groove) and the gun is just waiting for it's new Redfield 2-7 scope to arrive. If you just consider the $50 I paid for the gun as parts iit's quiite a deal, but if you start adding up what it cost to repair it might not chalk up that way.
Another rescue job, a 1917 came in as a parts gun because the owner had tried to drill and tap it himself for a scope annd had botched the job badly. The gun was a sporter conversion originaly made in the 1950's and the recoil pad was so hard it was flaking off the gun. I ended up welding up the bootched screw holes, one with a wood screw hammered throught ehr Redfield mount in into an ocersized hole, and recontouring and polishing the action. A new recoil pad and a refinish on the stock and a crown on the barrel, (a mint two groove) and the gun is just waiting for it's new Redfield 2-7 scope to arrive. If you just consider the $50 I paid for the gun as parts iit's quiite a deal, but if you start adding up what it cost to repair it might not chalk up that way.