Last gun of 2019...
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:53 pm
Here’s my final acquisition of 2019:
Got it for under $700 locally. Only thing that appears to be non-OEM is the Redfield front sight. Stock has been sanded, so no cartouches visible. Barrel throat has severe erosion-swallowed the no-go gage and barely passes field. It is a low serial number and as such, the barrel and action were pulled and each subjected to several heavy blows with a steel hammer on various areas. No negative effects were observed, so twenty rounds were put through it-all of them hand loaded at minimum starting loads. Only noticeable result observed was that some of the fired primers were slightly pushed out of the primer pocket on extraction. However, the brass used has been reloaded multiple times and I observed that several primers inserted with minimal resistance, so the primer pockets might not be as tight as they should be. Anyways, this is principally a wall hanger.
Can’t tell if the stock is original to the gun-it has two cross bolts. The barrel appears to be original to the receiver as it is dated 1-10 and the receiver is a low 400 which dates it to 1910.
Got it for under $700 locally. Only thing that appears to be non-OEM is the Redfield front sight. Stock has been sanded, so no cartouches visible. Barrel throat has severe erosion-swallowed the no-go gage and barely passes field. It is a low serial number and as such, the barrel and action were pulled and each subjected to several heavy blows with a steel hammer on various areas. No negative effects were observed, so twenty rounds were put through it-all of them hand loaded at minimum starting loads. Only noticeable result observed was that some of the fired primers were slightly pushed out of the primer pocket on extraction. However, the brass used has been reloaded multiple times and I observed that several primers inserted with minimal resistance, so the primer pockets might not be as tight as they should be. Anyways, this is principally a wall hanger.
Can’t tell if the stock is original to the gun-it has two cross bolts. The barrel appears to be original to the receiver as it is dated 1-10 and the receiver is a low 400 which dates it to 1910.
