I also installed a left-hand safety button. I took it completely apart (I left the trigger group intact), carefully removed the rust, stripped and lightly sanded the stock and forearm, cold-blued the steel and treated the wood with Dutch Oil. Even though I have never repaired a firearm before, I decided to try refurbishing this gun.
The exterior of the barrel and receiver were badly rusted, and the finish on the wood was ruined. The gun had suffered water damage after a tree broke through the roof during a storm years ago. I recovered the gun from his attic after he passed away in January 2018. This is my father’s Remington Sportsman 58. After taking it completely apart, he sanded and refinished the stock, removed the rust and cold blued the metal.
Remington Model 58 The reader refurbished this Remington at home. On its first day afield in south Georgia, with sharp golden sunlight streaming through the pines on a cold, crisply-beautiful November morning, with world-class dogs pointing wild quail, that damn gun tumbled every bird I shot at. 7 ½ loads, as the game strap in the photo will attest. The old girl made a nice showing using RST 2 ½-inch No. It came back looking great, and today I had the pleasure of taking it out on a preserve hunt for chukars. I bought it to shoot, and so I didn’t mind having the stock rubbed-out, checkering re-cut, and the barrels and trigger bow re-blued. This one showed lots of honest use with faint case colors remaining in the protected areas only, and the scratches, dings, and rubs usual to field guns-but it was all original and tight as they come. A couple of months ago, I picked up a nice old Parker VH 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun on a 1 ½ frame with 28-inch tubes choked Modified and Full. Like Charlie Brown and his forlorn-looking Christmas tree, you might even think it needs you as much as you might think you need it. Reader PhotoĮvery now and again a piece turns up that tickles your fancy in a way that you can’t explain.
Parker VH Good as ever, this old Parker didn’t disappoint on a chukar hunt. It was my only shotgun for many years, but eventually I sold it as I began a career as a Michigan conservation officer and moved to northern Michigan.Ĭheck availability here. In 1963, when I was 15 years old and growing up in Lansing, Mich., my Uncle Jerry had me do a few odd jobs for him, and as payment he presented me with a Stevens Model 94 16-gauge-an old single shot shotgun with a Tenite synthetic stock. Stevens Model 94 This vintage Stevens single shot still does a number on the grouse each fall. What follows is a list of some of our favorite Blasts From the Past. Without question, though, the best and most priceless guns in this collection are the heirloom rifles and shotguns that have been in families for generations-passed down from fathers to sons to grandsons-and are still used in the woods during hunting season every fall. If you were to gather all of the firearms together into one massive gun safe, you would arguably have the greatest, most enviable collection of guns in the world, including classic rifles, fine shotguns, and even a couple truly rare guns (the Fly Gun?).
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For more than two years on The Gun Nuts, readers have been sending us submissions for our series of vintage firearms, Blast From the Past.