kuduae
(.400 member)
26/10/15 01:00 AM
Re: Grandfather's .22

It's your rifle and you can do what you want. If it were mine, I would refrain from "restoring " it to "as new" condition, reblueing and heavy sanding of the stock. It's an old gun, showing it's (family-) history. I would diassemble the rifle and clean the metal parts of rust and gunk, using WD40 and fine steel wool. The stock wood doesn't look so bad at all. I would merely clean it with water and some detergent. Oven cleaner spray is usually doing a good job here. Again, use fine steel wool on the smooth parts and a toothbrush to clean the checkering. Let it dry thoroughly. Then apply some linseed or other good stock oil. Keep the oil out of the checkering. Reassemble. That's all I would do.
But, I would mount a more period 2 1/2x 7/8" scope with more period mounts. Such scopes may be found on ebay or German egun for modest prices. I may try to find you such things, if you want.



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