Any of ya all got anything lined up.
Find a gem in the rough in vg or better mechanical condition anywhere yet???
Pawnshops around here should be getting good real soon.
Lost pawns from people pawning rifles for christmas money.
Pawning em from dead relatives estates.
People pawning handed down guns for the need to feed vices.
keep ears open for dudes selling guns outa desperation
Looking in the local peddler for sale paper every thursday
Ect ect ect
1 mans loss is anothers SCORE!!!

Got kinda burnt out last year myself.
Did 4 or 5 ....
Cant really remember.
Wheeled and dealed in alot of guns over the past couple years
Have kept several that have made it to Core group guns to be kept and hunted
Most others get sent down the road.
Gonna limit my focus on 2 max this year.
I got hemmed up time wise during the winter lull between end of deer and start of turkey and vice versa end of turkey and start of deer.

Gonna be hitting gun shows

Looking for a win 94 in 30- 30 or .32 spl
Might try the eastern carbine thing again.
Looking for a pre safety marlin 444

Maybe another mauser if I can find a rare one again.
Even looking for a russian tula sks with a blade bayo maybe.


I just dunno....

Price and mechanical condition are driving factors.

Just dunno............
Give myself a time line of end of 1st week of February to find something for a winter project.

Cleaning bores down to metal as of late. Getting ready to send some rounds down range this winter. Also have some Dyna Bore Coat arriving tomorrow and plan to test it out on a few rifles and see if all the reviews are accurate.

Front to back-

99R 243 stock repair

38-55 special order carbine, stock repair, fitted an extra 410 barrel to the frame, refinish

99DL stock refinish (experimenting with stain streaking) waiting for it to dry to smooth and seal.

30-30 made from parts, reshape buttstock from an aftermarket club

Replace broken extractor (2 years ago). on 725. Still, it took 2 bull caribou last August as a shake-em-out single shot .

Fire and tweak as necessary the slightly used, very good shape 70xtr (81 vintage it appears) in 7x57 that I picked up a few months ago.

Will absolutely replace the hard recoil pad, at least. Probably I will glass bed it, possibly full length unless it is MOA as is. Doubtful, but won't know until I wing a few rounds out there. I know that there are several random pressure spots along the barrel channel. That can't be good, and will go away before I fire it.

It was -27 this morning, never got above -12 all day. It will wait. At least a week, as the forecast ain't changing much, more likely a few months. or as I can incrementally for a "fun" break.

Buy a couple more scopes and put them on the rifles that are currently nekkid, and shoot them in.

Possibly replace the Stub's 17" 30-06 bbl with an untried take-off .270 barrel I have on hand. Just for chits and grins. Might be a bit easier on the ears. Then put the stubby back on if the takeoff doesn't work out.

First, I have to finish a couple other repair projects and set up my gun-work bench and area.

Hopefully by spring I will only be hopelessly behind.

Renegade,

I like the way you think. My biggest problem is time, second would be a real depth of gun knowledge & value. Sure I could do ok on more popular, but may miss out on more discreet deals. I’m more of a car guy, but there to, it’s time.

As far as what’s on my plate, I picked up a .350 Legend upper I need to mount up and shoot, I’m still waiting on my local Smith for my 6.5 SAUM, and I also need to build two ARs with my son. We have all the parts collected.

My offering would be to say to hold whatever you might be selling until tax refund time.

Good thread.

a few on the front burner:

chopping a Lyman GPR into something handy. 6" off the bbl, 1 " off the LOP. Cone barrel and some other stuff.

DIY work on a Pietta 1851 Navy 44. Trying to turn basically an assembled box of parts into actual gun.

and some Liposuction on a pre 64 70 stock....so it feels like holding a rifle and not a 4x4

Found a used and abused Rem 788 in .308 for $150.

Mostly dirty. I mean dirty. I doubt the bore had ever been cleaned.

After 2 hours of soaking and scrubbing, the bore looked great. The exterior turned out better than expected. No deep pits, most of the surface rust came off, only leaving some freckling.

The stock is fugly and had been painted. An old recoil pad was added at some time, and LOP is a perfect 14". I may repaint the stock, maybe not.

I reassembled and mounted up a scope.

Five rounds into about 1.5" at 100.

I just finished bedding, free floating, and removed the front and rear sights.

I'll see if it will go sub MOA with the bedding and perhaps some load development.

Bought a Kimber 84M Montana in 223 from Whittaker Guns.

Ordered a Mod84M 1-9 twist 17 caliber barrel from Lilja.

When the barrel lands everything will go to Alberta Tactical Rifle to be put together as a 17 Remington.

My "light" coyote rifle.

The "heavy" is a Kimber 84M Varmint 22-250 in a Wildcat stock.

Clean some bores, maybe buy another 99F

I'm building a 35 Whelen on a VZ24 donor (ex-Bubba) and putting a new stock and scope on my favorite old Swedish Mauser Sporter.

That's a familar project. Can't wait to see yours.

Ran into one bout 2 weeks ago at a pawn america here in town
Was really tempted at intial look
Looking at it on the rack abour 10 ft away.
Looked like an aftermarket syn stock on it and a nice semi matte finish.

Granny ffl holder handed it over to me after jarring 3 other rifles with it taking it out of the rack.
I made comments like
That was a 20 buck scratch just put on it.
Oops their is a 10 buck gouge in the stock
She wasnt even hearing me, totally oblivious to the planet.
But other employees were hearing the clanging and banging and my comments and doing eyerolls watching her.
Someone had spray painted the entire rifle with that textured coating spray paint and the price was $299 ( lmfao inside myhead)
Asked to remove the trigger lock so i could check function, the bolt face for signs of recession and the bore.
Nope she wouldnt do it.
Company policy....
Im like well thats funny cause all the other pawn america shops in town have no problems letting me in depth examine guns. Hell they have even let me pull bores with a boresnake when i run home and get one and have even let me disassemble guns to take pics of marks.

She just clams up and is giving me the rainman look while i am " examining" it.
The crown looked semi decent at least......
But the 1st half inch of bore angling it to the lights looked like a peruvian copper mine...

Another employee on the sly told me come back on wensday when granny wasnt their and i could examine it like I asked too.
Never went back...
Specially at $299 and it just coming out of pawn for sale.
I have dealt with this granny before and her careless handling of guns in the rack.
And her numbnuts full blown retail sale valuations.

Told her no way i would buy it at 299
175 to 200 otd would be my best offer and that was after i was allowed to examine it.
Nope cant look at it like you want.
Told granny
Would you buy jewelry or shoes without checking em out or trying em on

She looked at me like a bitter old hag and said this is a gun being sold As Is.

I chuckled at her a little and said As Is based on a condition examine or As Is based on what you think about it.

Once again got the rainman look briefly and she said are you done looking at it.

Yep I sure am I geuss.....


No sale.
LOL...
she clanged and banged it back up in the rack...

Gawd.....
Hahahaha!!!!

Other employees in the place have said to me in the past she should not be allowed to handle and deal with the guns and their sales in guns are way less than the other shops in town.
But the FFL is under her name and when she is their it is her little world for her and only her to deal with in her mind.


I have at times been tempted to call corparate and ask WTF is up with this one shop.

Their are 4 pawn america,s in town.
I dont remember ever doing a transaction in this one shop over the years.
Their inventory compared to the other shops sucks for selection and condition also as a whole.

Lots of time guns from this shop get transferred to the others to sell
Per corparate directive after x amount of time.

Cause granny is hardheaded.


Lol!!!

I have an old Douglas XX premium.40 caliber barrel, 42", 13/16 AF; out in the shop that needs to be stuck in a piece of wood. Also a large Siler flintlock that is missing a part or two. Would look good with that barrel. I’m thinking either a schimmel or a southern poboy basic, frontier trash rifle might be in the makin’.

If renegade is on the lookout for a winter project, then I guess it's not going to do me any good to hit those Ft. Campbell and Clarksville pawn shops looking.

He'll have already beat me to any bargains.

Im gonna take a shower and go check inventory.
Guns come out on mondays and fridays.

Something to do for a couple of hours...

Look for some Remmy 700's for me.

Hoptroppolis shops are too far for me to roll man .

Thats your ground dude.



No telling what joes old lady has brought in the shops down here on the way to nashvegas for a weekend with her boyfriend while joe is deployed and she ditched the kids to a baby sitter.

Sorry joe...
You lost your marlin 36g
Your customized k98 done by sako after ww2
Your early winchester 1400 MK II with no plastic parts.
Those are core group guns to be held onto.

Many others have moved down the road.




Lol!!!!

Always got an eye out for ya on those.
Aint forgot.
Older ones espeically.

You can address the potential trigger issues .


P.S.

I can always go to lowes and look for waaaaaay better tomato stakes if ya want me too.


Lol!!!

When I walk into a gun/pawn shop with a laptop and a fiber optic borescope, it makes for some interesting negotiations on used rifles! One place that happened was in one of those Clarksville pawn shops. The price came tumbling down, and I walked out of there with a very nice rifle with a minimum of haggling.
Jerry

Not a rifle. Double 12 LC Smith made in 28. Youngest son found for me. Had busted buttstock and a few issues inside I’m working on now. Should be a nice light load paper hull gun when I get it together.

Am buried, guess happily?, in piddly projects. Recent purchases that need going thru. Bedding jobs awaiting me. Daunting backlog of reloading.

Family bought me a flintlock muzzleloader kit, very grateful, am stoked; challenge will be making the time, but i shall.

New stuff: Put back together browning safari (sako) 22-250, awaits different rings from conetrol. Paul Jaeger mauser ‘06 back together now. Still in the clean-up queue: win 1873 44wcf and 22long; 1892 32-20; MAS 22lr, mauser 340 22lr.

Laid in a few mauser actions. Something to dream about, anyway.

I may not get to it this winter but picked up an Ithaca 16 gauge SxS that belonged to a deceased friend. It just needs a stock refinish and to have the checkering recut. I plan to use it in his memory.

Gonna get a laminated benchrest stock from Richards Microfit for my 40X. They have some really flashy colors, not yet decided on that.

Used to frequent a shop with an old hag exactly like her 15-20 years ago. Did a few transfers there. The last one she says "That'll be $40". I say "Waaaat?". She says, "Yep, 'cause we aren't making anything on the gun since you bought it elsewhere". I look at p_dubbed husband and he just bows his head. Haven't been in there in years.

Luckily, I got Midsouth shooters supply down the road about 3 miles.

15 buck useage fee and 10 buck background check for transfers.

Most everyone has heard of em or they are already set up online with places drop down menu.

Just roll down their
Tell steve at the counter the info and shipping #
Gives ya a call for a 2 hr heads up when it gets in for pick up.
Stay away from the chubby guy at the counter, dude cant even remember a 7 digit ph# when ya repeat it to him slowly 4 or 5 times.

Anyone that has been to midsouth local customer office and pick up knows what I'm saying about the chubby dude.

Lol!!!

I had a hunting bud up at Llano Tx. Helluva gunsmith. Wood, metal, the works. Taught me lots. He used to take thos MAS 45’s (22 LR) and when he got finished with one it looked like a Win model 52 Sporter deluxe! I do miss him.

Renegade50: I have a BUNCH of winter gunshows coming up and have done several in the last couple of months already.
Purchased several cool Rifles of recent - about 50% of them I have scoped up and brought online with good loads or accurate factory ammunition. The other half I purchased as "investments" or for quick re-sale (profit!).
My first love in the "gun world" is and always has been Rifles, especially Varmint Rifles and collectible pre-64 Winchester Model 70's.
Have a gunshow in northern Idaho coming up right away and will be travelling to Livingston, Montana and then Billings, Montana in the next month for gunshow's and gunshop's therein.
Long live the Second Amendment.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Going to re-model the "gun room" under the stairs. I went from having my dream shop in my machine shed on the farm to having a cubbyhole under the stairs...feeling sorry for me yet? Anyhoo, the challenge is getting my reloading stuff and my gunsmithing stuff into roughly 200 sq ft. Kind of looking forward to it actually. Won't be any project guns until next year.

Hey Roy, is the streak stain method what was used on those stocks that look like McWoody's?
Very cool looking from the photos.
Maybe you would do a tutorial on that for us? I'd love to see how you did that.

Skinner peep tomorrow on crescent plate Model 14 in 35 rem

Dunno how much taller front it will need

Hey Roy, is the streak stain method what was used on those stocks that look like McWoody's? An idea I've been pondering and thought it would work so I finally tried it.

Very cool looking from the photos. Thank you, I hope it finishes out like I'm hoping, but it's been slow drying so far.

Maybe you would do a tutorial on that for us? I'd love to see how you did that.
If I did that on the open forum I'd have 7 people call me names, 13 tell me it can't be done, 22 tell me I'm doing it wrong and this method X,Y,Z is 100 x better, and the rest would just mock and throw spitballs LOL. If it works out I'll post some photos when I'm done, if not I won't so I don't have to hear all the above!

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I just put a .570 williams on my 36g saturday to calibrate to the redfield 70m receiver sight bristoe sent me.

Needed about .048 of height to get my rounds down where they belong
Was about 4 inches high at 100
Previous front post was right at 15/ 16ths around .485 ish in height.

So with the .570 i have room to file if needed.

That big of a williams is basicallly a big rectangle shaped eyesore IMO.
Installed it.
Did a rolling front slope profile with the dremel intially and left the rear 1/4 th inch portion with 1/16th brass bead intact.

Had ta do some fine filing on the face of the bead to get rid of some uneven mushrooming of its shape from where they press em in .
Gave the top 1/3rd of the bead a very slight slope to catch light hopefully a little better.
If it dont work very well , just file it flat again

Did some final filing on profile degreased it with some acetone, hit with some q tips with bluing.

Need ta get dailed in and zeroed now.







WTF is up with the image gallery.

Wont load images over 2 mb...

Used ta be 8mb IIRC????


Ok I unfugged myself....

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You are 100% correct dude.

People would armchair QB you for sure.


Types that never post pics of " their work" ...........

You think that stain underneth is not dry yet and the finish on top of the darker areas is still kinda soft.

Likes like a pretty cool technique to try.
Are you highlighting dark grain doing it or light grain
Or just going over the grain in a random or some thought out image in you mind???

Just a suggestion with the streak staining.
Hit the darker areas with some mineral spirits with q tips maybe before putting on the finish?
Give some more evaporation/ Vo2 ability to dry????
But it might dull or dilute the effect you have on the wood ????

Or mix the darker stain area (if oil based stain) with the mineral spirits 1st before applying for same evap/ v02 drying next time

The mineral spirits seem to help me with intial penetration of finishes I use. Tru oil and spar urethane.


I would be the last person to hammer you on your work with 99,s
You are the guru of those.

I bought a "Bubba'd" Marlin 336 in 30-30 that had the barrel damaged inside and rusted outside. I had it bored to 35-30 , and now I'm in the process of refinishing the stock and re-bluing some of the metal parts. Whoever had this gun must have let a heathen drag it through the woods and put it up wet. It looked like they had jammed a screwdriver in the bore and hammered on it. I must say it is 100% better now and I want to deer hunt with it next year. Figuring out how to reload for it has been fun too. It is a wildcat chambering and I have to learn on my own to some degree.

Pretty good thread for a buncha general forumites

Lol!!!

Not political.
No cake pans.
Or discussion hijack about stool softeners.
Aint even had a squabble erupt yet.


Yet.........



Lol!!!

Mmmmmm, hmmmm

I was just eyeballing a couple Model 700 stocks I've had laying around for a while now. May have to pick up a barreled action and put one of them together again. Something in a quarter bore. Maybe a Bob, or a 25-06.

Your a fugging jackwagon dude!!!!


Lol!!!

Went to Cabelas today, was out that way looking for door hardware n chit anyways so.. Wandered around checking out the deeply discounted baskets of junk. lol. Not that bad really and there were some decent deals but I'm getting to the point where I don't really need anything so just passing time really I guess.

Lets try a change of pace I think and head over to the used gun section. Oh excuse me. . the gun library Like this thread topic I was only maybe interested in something older and cool and needing love for a decent price. Another waste of time. They had a couple real nice BRNOs for 15 hun. A couple older m 700s for 7-800?! Other than that it was used Axis', Americans and such for too much. Been a while since I tried the ahem... gun library.. now I remember why.

Its all good I've got an FN Husqvarna sporter that I've been packing around for too long without getting it going. And a couple others with no optics or plan so maybe good I didn't drag another cause home.

Clean off my reloading table, there’s a project.

It’s covered in project rifles.

Ya when you're working on a gun on top of several other guns you may have a bit of a hording issue..... lol

Took me 2 hours to clean off my main 12 foot by 2 foot work bench in the garage before Christmas. It would probably take me a good 15 minutes to clean it off now. dafuq?

Another gun head text me earlier today and said he picked up a Mauser 98 barreled action in 300 Savage and should have a Fajen stock laying around somewhere.

Yeah no schit huh? Not seeing any pitchers from them guys!

Oh yeah, that too someday.

Guy brought in LC Smith SXS metalworks for stocking and blueing. Told him I needed 50% up front for the wood. He said "next week payday". Never saw him again.

That was about 30 years ago. I REALLY have to get some wood for that thing! . And blue it.

Also have a single 12 guage - "Spencer" - I believe. Also needs new wood, but I have enough cheap blank for that. Similar deal on bead and blue, same time frame. The bluing has been done for decades...

A Brazilian knock off of the Rem66 that needs a new part - I don't remember what - I robbed it to use it in a real Rem66 many years ago. It's not very accurate anyway.

As I said, someday I may get to the point where I am only hopelessly behind.

For many years, I used to do barreling and chambering for guys that wanted to do the bulk of their own work and build Mauser sporters. But, that all went away with the advent of tactical, stainless and plastic. So I decided to clean out the shop this winter, came up with three '98 actions, and some Brownells generic sporter barrels,oh boy, I'll get these to test fire stage and haul them to a gun show this spring. Might even make a small profit. Well the actions were stripped, with just bolt body and nothing else. Well, I got a brutal reality check on the prices of Mauser parts, they have tripled in ten years. Not that long ago you could buy all the gingerbread for 40 bucks. Fortunately, I had enough odds and ends of parts to put one together, I'll give it to a grandson, but the other two would just be throwing good money after bad, so much for winter projects. I'm going to take up needle point.

If you put it in the Gunsmithing forum, maybe those who love to jab on people won't see it.