dokcop
03-29-2015, 07:53
I just acquired SA #482476, bbl date 4/11, and would very much appreciate an SRS check.
To my eye the gun is untouched, probably out of someone's attic. Metal is unmolested and crisp, J1 bolt, crisp JFC stock and plenty of bright nitre blue peeking out from underneath original grime and what may be either/or hardened crud or very light speckled corrosion. The bore is bright and crisp with muzzle of zero and throat of 2. Not a screw has been turned. The only possible departure from the descriptions I have read about guns of this era is that mine has what appears to be a smooth rather than a serrated trigger.
I'm wrestling with cleaning it (most carefully) to expose the lovely bright blue and removing the crud vs leaving it alone, which I would prefer to do. The deciding factor will probably be the pristine but frozen rear sight. I hate having a nonfunctional piece. With a lesser gun I would carefully inject Kroil in the base, tape absorptive paper around it to try and prevent drips with the gun upside down in a vise, and wait a week, but because of the 104 year old gorgeous, deep reddish patina on the stock I am reluctant to get anywhere near it with any kind of solvent. I have made that mistake before.
Can anyone suggest a non-solvent approach to the frozen sight without dismantling the gun? Low heat followed by very light lateral pressure perhaps? All suggestions sought and gratefully accepted. Dokcop.
To my eye the gun is untouched, probably out of someone's attic. Metal is unmolested and crisp, J1 bolt, crisp JFC stock and plenty of bright nitre blue peeking out from underneath original grime and what may be either/or hardened crud or very light speckled corrosion. The bore is bright and crisp with muzzle of zero and throat of 2. Not a screw has been turned. The only possible departure from the descriptions I have read about guns of this era is that mine has what appears to be a smooth rather than a serrated trigger.
I'm wrestling with cleaning it (most carefully) to expose the lovely bright blue and removing the crud vs leaving it alone, which I would prefer to do. The deciding factor will probably be the pristine but frozen rear sight. I hate having a nonfunctional piece. With a lesser gun I would carefully inject Kroil in the base, tape absorptive paper around it to try and prevent drips with the gun upside down in a vise, and wait a week, but because of the 104 year old gorgeous, deep reddish patina on the stock I am reluctant to get anywhere near it with any kind of solvent. I have made that mistake before.
Can anyone suggest a non-solvent approach to the frozen sight without dismantling the gun? Low heat followed by very light lateral pressure perhaps? All suggestions sought and gratefully accepted. Dokcop.