Reassemble the rifle with dry-firing firing pin. Remove DL number, polish and refinish lower tang. Remove the surface rust from the barrel and lever. This rifle is not really going to be a shooter, although it could be.It’s mostly for display purposes so I plan to reassemble it so it cannot be fired.However, since I have it apart I’ll do some basic work to it if I ever want it to be a shooter.Ĭompletely disassemble the rifle and check for internal rust/damage. I scrubbed the bore with Remington Bore Cleaner and fortunately, the bore looked fairly clean and sharp.The lands were nice and sharp at the muzzle, indicating to me that the rifle was not used much, nor cleaned very often.There was, however, some surface rust in the bore. I think the worst case of abuse I found on this rifle was the front sight.It looked like someone had tried to replace the front sight with a higher one, which did not fit into the dovetail, or they may have removed the front sight to mount a scope, then tried to re-install it when they sold the rifle.Most of the scope mounting hole plug screw slots were buggered.In the photo above you can clearly see the gap below the bottom of the sight. The fore end had about 1/16 inch play forward and backward as you can see in the above photo. It looked like the wood had been replaced and had some nicks and scratches, but was in otherwise excellent condition.The original Sears butt plate did not fit properly as you can see in the above photo.Because the end of the butt stock was wider than the butt plate the stock was prone to chipping.
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