I thought I'd share this one with you guys. It's nothing special besides being a rifle that was recently given to me by a buddy that I helped out by reparing and cleaning up some rifles for. He's the one with the Rossi SAC62 and the 2 Ruger 10/22s I worked on and posted all three of them here while I was fixing them up. He stopped by one day to pick up some chickens I hatched for him and told me he had this rifle and was going to give it to me for fixing the others up. I told him it wasn't necessary but he insisted. He'd already asked me before what he owed me for fixing one of them up and I told him nothing but I guess he feels like he should do something for me.
This is a Walmart mass produced cheapy semi-auto Stevens/Savage Model 62 that was probably never cleaned. He wasn't sure when they got it but thinks it was about 8 years ago. When he first gave me the rifle it had no magazine so I had one located and was about to order it when he stopped by with the family and handed me two of them through the window of the truck. Score!! I would have bought 2 of them at a cost of about $38 delivered so that saved me from having to do that. He told me one of the magazines came with it and the other was an extra they bought. He said one never seemed to work right but he wasn't sure which one it was. After pulling them apart I can see why. They're made of alloy metal and had a bunch of the white fuzz corrosion everywhere. I think I know which one they used most times because I can see the discoloration on the sides of the magazine from living in the rifle. I suspect the other wasn't used much.
Upon intial inspection the rifle was hideously dirty and neglected with the barrel clamp being loose allowing the whole barrel to move back and forth. The whole receiver area was full of residue from many tens of thousands of rounds of wax coated 22lr shells and little to no cleaning. The stock has white paint on it from a modification his son was attempting along with black paint that I found as I tore it down. The barrel receiver and even the bolt had black paint on it. I started with tearing it down almost completely and gave it thorough cleaning removing the black paint cleaning the bolt including the inside of the receiver, barrel and trigger assembly. I'm only half way through but I got it back to working condition for now and will continue with removing the scratches on the barrel the paint was covering, the paint on the stock and rebluing the barrel. I'll get it squared away and it'll be a nice varmint rifle I can knock around a bit and not worry about like I do with the Winchester Model 250 or the M69 Romanian trainer. I'll still use them but they'll get a bit more of a break now. I'll post where I am now and when I finish it up I'll post the after pictures.
Yea, this is the normal condition of .22's I find at the flea market, except the Remington 552 I found last show in May, that one was spotless inside. Nice score, and they always tend to clean up well, it's a good thing they don't clean them, cleaning is pretty much the only way to wear out a .22.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Also if you still have feed issue after you clean and oil the mags (I think you well find the one that was used most works best) take the one that doesn't feed and load it with ten rounds and put it up for a month. I had feed problems and now I don't. Or just load 7 or 8 instead of 10
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Junk Yard Dog wrote:Yea, this is the normal condition of .22's I find at the flea market, except the Remington 552 I found last show in May, that one was spotless inside. Nice score, and they always tend to clean up well, it's a good thing they don't clean them, cleaning is pretty much the only way to wear out a .22.
Yeah I think this rifle was basically a shoot it and put it up gun that the kids used when they felt like playing. The 10/22s seemed to be better taken care of and I understand that to a degree. They take pretty good care of most of their firearms actually but I think this one was in the care of the son for the most part. It still has paint on the stock and I just noticed some on one of the magazines too. I think the paint was an attempt to either cover damage or like most kids an attempt at customizing. I just wanted to get it cleaned up and safe enough to fire and see how it functions. I thing the stock may be warped at the foreend. It has a space between the barrel and the stock there. I can believe that. I'll bet this rifle was shoot extensively without time to cool. The stock is plastic but even if it is warped it doesn't look like it'll make a difference.
Celt wrote:Also if you still have feed issue after you clean and oil the mags (I think you well find the one that was used most works best) take the one that doesn't feed and load it with ten rounds and put it up for a month. I had feed problems and now I don't. Or just load 7 or 8 instead of 10
Funny you should mention that. I just loaded both magazines for the first time and the one I suspect was used most was easier to load when I got to the last few rounds than the other one. Spring is more broken in on that one. Thanks for the tip.
If its the same as my 64 then its not warped. Its a free float barrel. Just slide a dollar between and make sure it goes to the action without pressure.
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Sorry it's taking me a bit to get back, I'm picking collards and cooking up a mess of them. Um my favorite. I think there's something else going on besides the barrel being floated. Your's looks almost the same as mine but it's a newer model but look at the pictures below. See how it has a space, about 1/8th to a 1/4", between the barrel and the stock and if you look at the stock line compared to the barrel, the stock curves downward the further it gets from the receiver. The barrel channel appears to be squeezed together too. If I squeeze the foreend to the stock the channel opens up and I believe he had tape on it at one point. I put pictures of the collards below the rifles too, lol. I couldn't help myself.
Celt wrote:Yup...that's too much gap. The greens look good!
Yeah I didn't think it was the way they came. We'll see how it shoots and if it's accurate it'll stay that way for now. It's a work in progress. I only put it back together because I realized it needs a lot more finish up work then I could do in an evening so I'm going to do some shooting with it for now and pull it back down later to finish it up. It's an easy rifle to pull down especially since I gave a good cleaning.
I've been waiting for the greens to get a decent size before I started cooking them up. I use some from time to time before hand but I like to cook up a huge pot and I freeze a bunch in tupperware and yogurt containers. It's a perfect veggie to add to a dinner. Especially if all I have to do is pull the container out of the freezer and put it in a pot to reheat. I love greens. I grew these from seed I harvest every year. I have my own Kale too. I need to start tilling again and plant a fall crop.
Celt wrote:When I got mine I remember reading something about how these stocks warp in the swamp land. Can't remember the fix though.
It's a plastic stock. Don't know how being in swamp country would effect them but I'd be curious to know. I'd think plain old overheating them would do it no matter where you are. I'd bet you 50 cents his kids shot the heck out of this rifle and overheated it regularly. They're 15 and about 11 now and they've had this rifle for at least 8 years.
I wonder if you could great it with a blow dryer and put some weight on it. Shouldn't affect accuracy much as is. They make a model of the 64 with a nice wood stock but I couldn't find anywhere to buy one. Never called savage. I kind of like the synthetic for knock around capacities so I left it alone. Nice score by the way. Should still be a nice little 22 for you to play with. I also thought of an o.d. Camo job but don't think I'll do that either yet. Maybe when it gets lots more miles.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
Celt wrote:I wonder if you could great it with a blow dryer and put some weight on it. Shouldn't affect accuracy much as is. They make a model of the 64 with a nice wood stock but I couldn't find anywhere to buy one. Never called savage. I kind of like the synthetic for knock around capacities so I left it alone. Nice score by the way. Should still be a nice little 22 for you to play with. I also thought of an o.d. Camo job but don't think I'll do that either yet. Maybe when it gets lots more miles.
Well first thing is to just shoot it. If it's accurate and holds I'll probably just leave it. At least for now. My goal is to put zero dollars into it besides the ammo that goes through it and just clean and reblue it. It looked like it was run across something sharp because it had scrates from one end to the other and a few dings in the metal. I'll straighten that stuff out and just shoot it. If it's reliable and shoots straight it'll be the gun I grab when the dog has a coon or something else bayed. I've dispatched hundreds of varmints here and it was all done with either the bolt gun or the lever. It'll be a nice change to a semi to give 'em a doubletap. I'll update this thread as I go through the rifle and let you guys know how it does.
What kind of greens is that? I don't think we have them here, or at least I have not seen such.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Weldon said" . My goal is to put zero dollars into it besides the ammo that goes through it."
That's about what i've done also. I already had the scope. The sling I have on it is an sks that I bought for a dollar. I just can't see dumping a bunch of money in a22.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
Junk Yard Dog wrote:What kind of greens is that? I don't think we have them here, or at least I have not seen such.
They're Georgia Collard greens. Well the seeds were originally. Now they're Mike's Weldon Collard greens because any hybrid traits are lost now. I grow a crap load of them every year. That pot on the stove was eventually filled to the brim with them. I usually pick them earlier than this or plant them later and let them winter over. The live through the winter believe it or not. I have pictures of them with snow on them. Tough plants. These are a bit tougher then usual and a bit smaller them I usually harvest because it's so late in the season. When they winter or if I can get them started early enough in the spring I get leaves that are about two feet long. I put smoked pork of some type and/or ham, bacon, onion, garlic and seasonings. I just put them in the freezer and got 11 containers of it. I absolutely love greens and they're damn good for you. I swear I feel better after I've been eating them for a while. This is the first I've had of these since I ran out earlier this year.
