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Gots me a new/old rockchuck rifle coming
mountainman:
That’s a cool classic JD!!
JDHasty:
--- Quote from: Blacktail Sniper on February 17, 2025, 08:24:08 AM ---Will it be getting a make over like the last one or going to keep as-is?
Looking forward to seeing how it shoots and what you find out about its history.
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No way! I’m pretty sensitive about preserving firearms that have a documented provenance linking them to a rifle smith like the CC Johnson shop or have historical value as a scarce factory produced rifle in original condition.
I have a few others, one is a Winchester Model 43 in 218 Bee that is a factory slick barrel. No sights. It’s so rare that many Winchester collectors have heard of them, but never actually seen or held one. I’m pretty careful not to beat it up or alter it. I shoot chucks with it, but don’t haul it up into talus slopes. It’s in really nice shape.
My “restoration” projects are not really proper restorations. I frequently start with refugees from gun breakers or begin with an orphaned action or barreled action. I am not equipped to do a proper restoration, the the kind of work that Wyoming Armory does, but can get pretty close most of the time.
The Cinnabar YouTube channel has a lot of what they do if anyone is interested in what a true restoration consists of. If I had the capacity to I would love to do that kind of work.
The half nickels and color cased action Model 90 and 1906s I have done are not actual restorations at all, but those were options that were available. As was slow rust bluing and hand rubbed oil on the stock. So, in that regard they are kind of correct.
Very few pistol grip Model 1890s were special ordered, but they are popular with guys that like to monkey with Model 1890s. The lower tangs are bent and it’s hard to tell they are not factory produced. There were so many produced that other than documented rare factory special ordered ones nobody really has any qualms changing them around to suit the current owner.
I’m of mind to build a guide so that I can hand matt the top flat of the octagon barrels with a checkering file. Just because I think it would be neat looking. It takes a couple hours to hand checker a front strap on a Colt 1911, I imagine it will take me 16 or 20 to do the entire flat on an octagon barrel.
JDHasty:
--- Quote from: mountainman on February 17, 2025, 10:41:45 AM ---That’s a cool classic JD!!
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I feel lucky and blessed to have the opportunity to have an actual CC Johnson varmint rifle. To have one in 219 DW is icing on the cake.
Something I have read about, but never thought I’d be in position to actually own one. It certainly helped that I was able to recognize it for what it is. There were two CC Johnson rifles in that auction. The other one is a Sharps Borchard in 219 Donaldson Wasp. I think the guy that got it feels the same way.
Macs B:
Greeat Rifle! Love that classic scope, I was once instructed that you don't adjust those scopes. Instead you shift the world around them to bring it into zero.
chukarchaser:
hell yes very cool
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