This neat little rifle just followed me home Tuesday. Overall, it's in nice condition, the wood has been replaced with some genuinely nice walnut by someone who was a competent wood worker. It needs a serious cleaning and rubbing out to bring out the grain. The flat brass butt plate is "different", and I think I'll keep it. An improvement would be to get it checkered or traditional horizontal lines groves.
It locks up tight, the trigger is great, original sights are almost too fine for my eyes. It's tapped for a Lyman receiver sight, and I need to figure out which model and get on the hunt.
The metal is going to need some cleaning, polishing, and re-finishing. With a removable barrel that should be easy.
I have test fired it at 25 feet on my basement range without any prior cleaning. If I can hold the sights, it will print 1-hole groups using CCI Quiet ammo. I need to fire it again to verify as the borescope shows a rusty, pitted mess in the bore and chamber. If it is a shooter despite the bore than all the better.
To be perfect a reline or a new barrel should be in the cards. As a take down a new barrel is easy to make, I think, from a 10/22 blank. Mounting a scope on that would be a great Sunday afternoon fun shooter.
Any other ideas?