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About a year ago a friend gave me an old 39 Marlin. The original owner had fallen with it, broke the stock and bent the receiver and worse yet had welded scope blocks to the barrel and warped the barrel. The bore was good. A couple of weeks ago I decided to re-do it since it shot fairly well. I put a buttstock from a 39A on it and a crescent buttplate, and cut the pistol grip to an S pattern, put an oil finish on the wood, parkerized the receiver, put a 600 grip polish and blue on the rest of the gun. The target shows 6 shots freehand at 25 yards. The gun will shoot 3/8 inch 5 shot groups at 25 yards. Other pictures show how crooked it is, I can't believe that it will still shoot this good. They don't make them like this anymore!
Heck ! In the shotgun world, one pays big bucks to a specialist, to get a gun like that ! It's called "cast off" - to allow the face to get behind the boreline/sights.
If you think about it, the bullet should keep going exactly the direction of the last part of the barrel; unless there is recoil directing the barrel laterally due to stock/shoulder not being along bore axis, you truly COULD shoot around a 90 degree corner, as long as the bend in the barrel did not deform the bore significantly (a non-'rifled' oval bore would negate rifling effect, and even in the .22 LR might raise pressures.
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Pete,
that's zactly what I was thinking when I saw it.
I had a buddy of mine I grew up with that has his grandfather's old .22 bolt action single shot. Somewhere in it's history it suffered a similar accident. The barrel on his was bent so bad that when you looked down the bore you couldn't even see daylight. But shoot it he did cause it was a tackdriver.
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