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Yeah, I saw that about those erasers and ran out and bought some. I didn't care for them as they were a little too fine of a "grit".

Details re: the above rifle. I bought the bare rusty receiver at a gun show for a pittance.

After lots of filing and abrasives backed by elbow grease it became what you see. Parts were accumulated from a myriad of sources, a minty barrel was found, some nice straight grained walnut came my way (but the fore arm is a factory original). Everything slowly came together, and she will put 5 into 1/2" at 50, 1 1/4- 1 1/2 at 100. Grip cap is solid ebony- I like the round knob look, especially with a schnabel fore end. All the steel bits I rust blued myself.

I got a factory letter based upon the serial number on the receiver, and lo-and-behold it had started out life as a .22 Hi Power originally, in November 1913. Kismet that I had made it into a .22HP myself.