More 22lr goodness

Rafterman

Stevens Model 70 Visible Loader. Dates to 1920 - 1934 after Savage bought the company. Haven’t been able to shoot it yet. Bore is rough and I was never able to get a clean patch no matter what I tried.

Wambli Ska

That’s a really cool gun.  Always loved that design.  When I get rough bores like that I’ll wrap some pure copper pot scrubber sponge material (I buy them on Amazon) around a bore brush and go at it.  Can’t hurt them anymore than they already are but at least I’ll get them as clean as possible.  

Some of them will surprise you.  Some are beyond gone like my old Marlin 1894 in 30-30.  I tried every trick I knew and never got it to shoot better than palm sized groups at 50 yards so I sold it to a collector that just wanted it because it was all original.

With a .22 you can always get it sleeved easily enough.

Big Al1

Cool old rifles!! Shoot standard velocity in it.  MIne looks like crap but still shoots great!!

Zee

That’s pretty neat. 

Diver43

Great find

sakodude

Always had a thing for that rifle. had one for a while but could never get it to function properly. It would cycle rounds out of the tube and eject then so long as you didn't fire. Pull the trigger and it would lock up requiring dis assembly to remove the fired case. Never solved that puzzle so it went down the road. 

Bigslug

NICE!

One thing I love about the .22's is that since you don't have to contain the force of a 50,000 psi bomb, a lot of engineers were able to approach the project with a little whimsy.  That's a unique one you got there.

Gene L

A relining will cost about $100 or so.  You might get it cheaper or more expensive in these uneasy times.  I bought a Meridan .22  pump and had to get it relined.  Got more money in it than it's worth.  Any old .22 likely used BP .22s or "semi-smokeless powder.  There's no saving them.  I won't own a gun with a trashed bore so I don't regret having it fixed; I'll take it as an expensive lesson learned. 

Wambli Ska

sakodude said:

Always had a thing for that rifle. had one for a while but could never get it to function properly. It would cycle rounds out of the tube and eject then so long as you didn't fire. Pull the trigger and it would lock up requiring dis assembly to remove the fired case. Never solved that puzzle so it went down the road. 

Rough chamber.  I had an old .22 that I could only fire CCI CB Longs in it because they didn’t get stuck in the rough chamber.