firefly1957
09-01-2023, 06:56 AM
This is a bit odd Nothing I posted yesterday is available today?
My first vintage scope was bought for $2 at an auction the auction was from a estate of a upper peninsula Michigan man they moved the items to Lapper county to get more for them . I went to the auction to get a deal on welding equipment but that used (well Used ) stuff went for more then it was new! There was a junk box had a double barrel 28 gauge bankers pistol I told the auctioneer it was a NFA nightmare but he sold it as junk . The only other thing I bought was a metal box with lathe bits many of them new carbide tipped.
The scope put me on a quest for a reasonably priced period gun some years later in the 1990's Leaving a gun show at the Davison Michigan K of C hall I saw a old man walking in with a single shot rifle. Talking to him I found it was a Stevens Crack shot with a terrible bore and bad chamber. I welded the filed dovetail in the action in and put a Parker Hale barrel liner in chambering it for .22 long rifle . I also filed up some mounts for the scope rings and drilled and tapped the barrel before instilling the barrel liner in the gun . I still need to work on the extractor as the "V" shape of it can allow a rim to rupture on firing but it is very rare .
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My first vintage scope was bought for $2 at an auction the auction was from a estate of a upper peninsula Michigan man they moved the items to Lapper county to get more for them . I went to the auction to get a deal on welding equipment but that used (well Used ) stuff went for more then it was new! There was a junk box had a double barrel 28 gauge bankers pistol I told the auctioneer it was a NFA nightmare but he sold it as junk . The only other thing I bought was a metal box with lathe bits many of them new carbide tipped.
The scope put me on a quest for a reasonably priced period gun some years later in the 1990's Leaving a gun show at the Davison Michigan K of C hall I saw a old man walking in with a single shot rifle. Talking to him I found it was a Stevens Crack shot with a terrible bore and bad chamber. I welded the filed dovetail in the action in and put a Parker Hale barrel liner in chambering it for .22 long rifle . I also filed up some mounts for the scope rings and drilled and tapped the barrel before instilling the barrel liner in the gun . I still need to work on the extractor as the "V" shape of it can allow a rim to rupture on firing but it is very rare .
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