Thank you all.
I posted several pics a few months ago :
http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... er#p502880
It's a totally unmarked, un-numbered, black powder #1 size Rolling Block, with a RF breechblock conversion, a rebarrel, and a RB carbine rear sight.
But, briefly, I stumbled it in an LGS on my home from a funshow for short money, & bought it because of the funky looks & because I was told it had been rebarreled to .22 Short.
Right.
After I got it home, the logo "Savage 982 DL - .22LR" was on the barrel bottom when I removed the forend, and while the bore was pristine, the chamber was crusty - leading me to a chamber scrub & feeding in a LR shell.
Evidently, somebody fired a lot of Shorts & never cleaned the fouling ring from the forward portion of the chamber. DOH.
I got tired of the gray paint soon enough, and looked into woodgrain dipping - a spinoff of hrdrographic camo film dipping.
(15 years ago, I had Bell & Carlson camo dip a black synthetic Remington 7 stock in Realtree with great sucess)
As luck would have it, Borreson Outdoors (
http://www.filmdipping.com ) was having an online "special" ($75), so I called the proprietor, Jon - who promised a 2-3 week turnaround. I USPS Priority mailed ($7.95) the stock set w/MO ASAP in March, after selecting one of the woodgrains on his website.
I just got the stock set back (8 weeks), and he's done an excellent job - I just wish he would have told me up front that, where camo dipping was a snap, woodgrain alignment was fussy, often requireing a redux or two.(before I got P.O.'d at the long delay)
For those interested in the process, if you google "camo stock dipping", there are a few websites with videos & how-to's for those so inclined.
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