My neighbor Dathan moved away awhile back. he had this old gun case out in his shed for a few years.
i noticed it, looked it over but never opened the case. one days he moved out and left the rifle out there after taking everything else. Then a few days later i seen it on the porch so i went over and grabbed it to bring it inside for safety from thieves and called him.
He said he was taking it to the dump. i asked if i could haave it and he agreed. it sat here for over a year or so and yesterday i got bored. i went and naval jellied the barrel & reciever since it was beyond just simply cleaning it. then headed up to the Home Depot for stove paint (its a kids camping shooter not a prize) so after stripping all the rust and goo i bathed it, let it dry.
I took the stock and gave it a good look over while checking out my website and decided restaining it was going to be a pain in my backside and it was cracked, gorilla glue filled the crack.
I then hung it up and got the satin Oregano color paint out and let it fly.
The barrel was nasty to start with, after stripping it and washing, i let it dry awhile, blew it off with air and hung it on the porch.
Got the stove paint out and let that fly.
After waiting a long time, i decided to assemble it and see what i was missing in th pile of parts i had for it.
Since this isnt going to be a prized rifle for show nothing i did to it was going to hurt it beyond what its alrady been through. Just making it a shooter again.
After all the assembling of what parts i had there i found that the sights and little nutsert that holds the front end of the trigger assembly on the stock have all gone AWOL. oh well. i wont be using the sights anyhow, scopes are inexpensive for these. mayhaps if i find them somewhere in the future i will get them put back on but right now they arent important. i think the sights were in my shed during the fire and i dont feel like digging.
I have to head up to the hardware and get a nut-sert to fit inside the stock and affix the trigger properly.
Also, i tore apart the tube feeder to see why its keeping the spring compressed. someone in the past okied the thing. so i need a new spring and red tip. the tube is fine. but looks like somebody stepped on the long spring while it was previously out of the magazine tube.
oh well, enjoy my post. i was bored.
this is a 1977 rifle
