I started this thread a while ago but realized I never finished

>>35081026

Looks like a Savage bolt.

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>>35081026
A couple months ago I get a call from someone needing some electrical work. Something about the name seems familiar, and then I realize it--it's that woman.

So I told her the story and asked her if her dad ever had a rifle. She takes me into the garage, we rummage around in the scrap wood and garden tools, and pull this out. Says her dad would have wanted it to go to a good home.

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>>35081067
It's a Mossberg model 40 from about 1934. Dirty, rusty, and generally pretty gross.

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>>35081089
The real question is, did I actually have the bolt for her dad's gun?

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>>35081101
YES

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>>35081116
But obviously work was needed.

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>>35081128
Much steel wool and various solvents later and here we are. It'll never be pretty but it has character. Hope her dad would approve.

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>>35081139

>>35081139
>that 940
Noice

You should call the lady and ask if she'd like to see it and maybe shoot it, who knows maybe she'd like that considering it was her father's

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>>35081160

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>>35081170
>>35081169
Not a bad idea but I doubt she'd do it. Not anti but super liberal middle-aged women who has no interest in this stuff.

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>>35081189

>>35081026
Thats pretty fuckin cool anon.

>>35081026
Do you post this every couple months or something? Why?

>>35081399
Like I said in the OP, I posted this once when I got the rifle. That was before I cleaned it up.

Nice gun and even better story. God bless anon

>>35081139
>>35081160
>>35081170
>>35081189
what an absolute beauty

>>35081139

Good job. The previous owner is proud of you. And I don't mean his wife.

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>>35081026
Looks like what happened with my granddad's gun, OP. Mine was a Sears model 41.

Bolt was received second, though. And yes, that rust you see was just as bad on the rest of the gun.

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>>35081759
All cleaned up.

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>>35081745
OP here. Nice you could get that.

In the old days they'd take the bolt out and put it in a drawer for safety with kids in the house. This isn't the first time this happened to me. A few years ago the kids of an old friend who died gave me a Remington .22 they found in his house. The bolt never turned up so I bought one online.

Fuck I wish I could find a gun like this

I wish I owned a gun

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>>35081768
Better view of the metal

>>35081771
It makes more sense to remove a bolt now that you explain it that way, but for the first three months I didn't have a bolt and was actively searching for it, but there really wasn't a "Sears" gun model I could easily find. Apparently, it is too damn similar to a few other guns, like the one you posted in the OP.

>>35081772
What's your story, anon?

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doing the lords work op, good on you

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>>35081808
Final view i have, of the bore this time. How the outside had turned to shit rust but the inside was left this CLEAN is beyond me. All I did was send a boresnake down a few times.

I mean, this is the background pic on my phone. I fucking love this pic.

>>35081829
I'm too poor for a gun
Also about to get rocked by Irma.

>>35081854
You're gonna be just fine, my man. And when you get back home after Irma wanders her happy ass away from you, just dig a bit into Gunbroker for a simple .22

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/691249095

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/691854326

>>35081844
Idc what anyone thinks of her, I'd go balls deep in that child murdering broad.

>>35082471

At least you wouldn't have to worry about child support.

I remember this story

>>35081139
>steel wool
Well, you're a shithead.

>>35081189
Is she a hot?

>>35081116
dat nugget-tier safety

>>35081853
so many fucking lands

>>35081026
stale pasta, happy pasta, but stale.

Well done m8

Thank God she didn't turn it in to a buyback

>>35083815
>stale pasta, happy pasta, but stale.

>Literally posted once before on 4chan
>By the same person
>pasta
>stale

>>35081808
I have that same rifle. Bought it used for 125$ and use it to shoot grey squirrls

I have a Mossberg 35 single shot .22lr, that I bought at a gunshow when I was first starting out as a gunnut. It doesn't look so much like yours, having a bull barrel and heavy stock. It came missing the two extractors on the bolt head, so I (like a budding bubba) decided to replace them with a one-piece extractor that required that I grind away part of the bolt head. You may now mock me for doing this, though it did cure me of doing any more out of spec "improvements" on old guns. WTF was I thinking. Otherwise in good condition and shoots pretty well.

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>>35083402
I counted 16.

>>35083915
>bought it used
I don't think you can buy any sort of Sears gun NEW anymore...

>>35081139
Looks great OP, I've been up to a little restoration myself though the ones I was given were quite a bit worse.

>>35084716
Well he could be older and bought it from Sears himself.

>>35081399
So fucking sick of aspies who have to point out everytime they see a thread om a repeated topic.

It's so new faggy. Anyone who's been here more than a few weeks would realize anything worth talking about will come up again.

>>35084647
like an artillery barrel