Remember about a month ago my son Sixgun Jr. bought this 1892 32-20 for $379? Anyway, he shipped it home from Colorado to me, here in Pa.The gun was a disaster but mechanically excellent. The receiver was heavily pitted, reblued, the last 10" of the octagon barrel was near round from what, I don't know, and most edges were rounded but......(once again) the wood was excellent as were all stampings.
I hate to do this but I gave the gun the "full Monte". I got the flats on the barrel octagon again. (only had to take off .015 from each flat) got all the pits out of the receiver and polished the whole thing up the old fashioned way. (about $40 worth of sandpaper in 5 different grits) The wood was excellent so I only had to strip it and add the proper Winchester stain and oil.
I gave the entire gun, sans lever, hammer, locking bolts, cartridge guides, carrier and forend cap my premier rust blue job, just like they did 100 years ago.
Then, after 40 hours of hard, tedious labor, I slapped it all together and added a new Marbles Tang Sight and gave it a workout today with 4 grains of Unique and a 115 NEI gas check bullet traveling 1150. To put it mildly, I was AMAZED
After shooting 3 or 4 groups and knowing it was not a fluke, I got a fresh target and fired a group for score and pictures. This group was like the rest--as good as a regular bolt action rifle with a scope on it. All under two inches with my 54 year old eyes.That boy of mine is gonna be one happy dude and as I am headed out there in a couple of weeks, I had better expect a coffee brought to my bed every morning, along with a five course breakfast. I will do NO driving and will relax in the passenger seat of his Dodge diesel. And at night, I will have my toes rubbed and my dirty underwear all washed each day. And the "racing stripes" had better be gone.
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