Crooked Rifle

stinkycat · Post by **stinkycat** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:15 pm

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!

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:17 pm

And to think it still shoots a group.

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:13 pm

did you shoot that group around a corner?

Sorry couldn't resist.

You did beautiful work and it looks like you have given new life to a shooter. well done.

Jaguarundi · Post by **Jaguarundi** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:16 pm

Nice salvage

!The crescent buttplate gotta luv it

!Nice groups...amazing.

Bruce Scott · Post by **Bruce Scott** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:26 pm

Truly amazing...

...!

Is there any left adjustment remaining in the rear sight?

stinkycat · Post by **stinkycat** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:30 pm

No adjustment left, even had to drift the front sight to the right.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:34 pm

Wonder if there is any way to put that back on the straight and narrow?

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:03 pm

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.

Old No7 · Post by **Old No7** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:54 pm

Glad to see it groups well -- and looks good too!

Got the same sights on mine -- red fiber-optic front, and Williams rear with the "twilight" peep -- 'course mine are a little closer to center...

I'd say have some fun with it, and go out to find some crooked squirrels!

Old No7

Nate Kiowa Jones · Post by **Nate Kiowa Jones** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:05 pm

Looks like the majority of the bend is there in the barrel between the rear dovetail and the forend cap. Take it apart and bead it back.

shawn_c992001 · Post by **shawn_c992001** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:14 pm

Dude, I'm not sure if you know this or not, but yer shootin' arn is bent.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:16 pm

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.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:16 pm

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.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:43 pm

rjohns94 wrote: You did beautiful work and it looks like you have given new life to a shooter. well done.

+1 - you did an awesome job. If you know where the bullets land, who cares about a slight bend. At least it's pointing RIGHT and not LEFT!!!