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Look what some idiot did to this gun

select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2006 in General Discussion
I have a 99% gun with a Lyman supertarget 25x.


http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=57149374
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think his training in gunsmithing included a 6 pack.
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    [:D]
    Half of the lives they tell about me aren't true.
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some of my Mauser conversions started out looking like that, but after welding the "bolt" handle I bent the "bolt", ground down and polished the weld marks an put a knob at end of bolt etc.
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That bolt is not even welded, its brazed.
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bet that there Bubba uses a rope as a belt. THat is one redneck repair job! There is no way I would show that job in public.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here is a recent pic of mine. Remington did not make a lot of them.

    DSCN0051.jpg
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  • Glock23ExpertGlock23Expert Member Posts: 1,031 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll take it for $5.14. [:D]
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "I think his training in gunsmithing included a 6 pack."

    Your making fun of drunk gunsmiths has hurt my feelings.
    Sixteen years ago I bought a couple of Swedish Mausers for $100 apiece. The gun store had 150 of 'em on the rack, and they had another 350 in the back room.
    I fired them a few times, I really didn't know anything about Mausers.
    It got to bugging me that they had that straight bolt.
    One night, I had drunk a six pack, I think it was Heineken, but it may have been Budweiser. I decided to fix that bolt on one of the rifles.
    I took the bolt all apart. I got two pair of vice grips, and a propane torch. Heated it up and bent it. I knew a blacksmith who quenched newly made chisels in oil, so I quenched that hot bolt in oil.
    Hell, it worked great. The gun still shoots fine. The curve of the bolt is not quite the angle a gunsmith would do, but it is ok.
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  • jbw1776jbw1776 Member Posts: 3,056
    edited November -1
    Quote: "The work is actually pretty decent and very secure!"

    Are we looking at the same gun???[B)][:0]

    I do beg to differ with ya'll though, even Bubba could have done a better job than that!!

    By the way.....VERY VERY VERY nice setup select![8D]

    Ben
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I started out doing mauser converisons by bending the bolt with a propane torch and a hammer. Then I got brave and cut the bolt handle off and tried to weld it with one of those oxygen pellets mini welders and I messed up a couple of bolt bodies. they I got a big welder with big tanks that could melt anything. I filled the bolt body with heat absorbing paste and got to be pretty good at welding on new handles.

    Then somebody told me i could buy a commercial bolt body for about $30 with a nice bend and a checkered knob.
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    "I think his training in gunsmithing included a 6 pack."

    Your making fun of drunk gunsmiths has hurt my feelings.
    Sixteen years ago I bought a couple of Swedish Mausers for $100 apiece. The gun store had 150 of 'em on the rack, and they had another 350 in the back room.
    I fired them a few times, I really didn't know anything about Mausers.
    It got to bugging me that they had that straight bolt.
    One night, I had drunk a six pack, I think it was Heineken, but it may have been Budweiser. I decided to fix that bolt on one of the rifles.
    I took the bolt all apart. I got two pair of vice grips, and a propane torch. Heated it up and bent it. I knew a blacksmith who quenched newly made chisels in oil, so I quenched that hot bolt in oil.
    Hell, it worked great. The gun still shoots fine. The curve of the bolt is not quite the angle a gunsmith would do, but it is ok.



    Those Swedish mausers are probably worth 400.00[:)]

    As long as the bolt hasn't been bent[:0][:o)]
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    That bolt is not even welded, its brazed.


    Actually I think it has been bubberized. Not many can do work like that. Has a certain rustic charm. About $8 worth.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    That bolt is not even welded, its brazed.


    Actually I think it has been bubberized. Not many can do work like that. Has a certain rustic charm. About $8 worth.


    This is what makes it a true one of a kind Custom gun. All it needs now is some handy dremel work, and a little stock carving.[:D]
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  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey, I kind of like the idea of being able to take down my gun with a impact wrench and running on down to Home depot for gun parts.
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  • shoff14shoff14 Member Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where's zippers O jezze when you need it.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Those Swedish mausers are probably worth 400.00

    As long as the bolt hasn't been bent



    You are right. I have since learned the error of my ways. I have bought two more Swedes, have a couple books on them, and have given up gunsmithing.
    I wouldn't dare post this on the Swede forum, they would ride me out of town on a rail.
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Glock23Expert
    I'll take it for $5.14. [:D]


    Is that how much change you found in you couch?
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by select-fire
    Here is a recent pic of mine. Remington did not make a lot of them.

    DSCN0051.jpg



    Anytime you need a shootin buddy, jest holler.
    Half of the lives they tell about me aren't true.
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  • Smokeeater 38Smokeeater 38 Member Posts: 2,735
    edited November -1
    [:0] [:(!] [V] [:(]
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  • SXSMANSXSMAN Member Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remington M540X Target 22 lr 540X BOLT Accurate!

    Shouldn't that read Remington M540X Target 22 lr 3/8ths X 18 X 2.5 BOLT Accurate! ? [;)]

    Or is that 5/16ths ?
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by SXSMAN

    Remington M540X Target 22 lr 540X BOLT Accurate!

    Shouldn't that read Remington M540X Target 22 lr 3/8ths X 18 X 2.5 BOLT Accurate! ? [;)]

    Or is that 5/16ths ?

    You could also add whether it is metric or not?
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you look closely the idiot did use a hardened bolt. 3 Marks on the bolthead.
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd give the guy a hundred bucks and fix the bolt myself and refinish the stock. Does started at $275 mean that's his minimum price? How much would one of those be worth if it looked like the one select has?

    Wonder what else is wrong with the gun?
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by hughbetcha




    Wonder what else is wrong with the gun?


    If you run a straight edge along the barrel in the first pic it seems to be bent. I wonder if the barrel was bent when he clubed something hard enough to break the bolt off. And why didn't he just have the original bolt handle welded back on and finished properly?
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The barrel looks bent down if i am seeing things right..
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by hughbetcha


    I'd give the guy a hundred bucks and fix the bolt myself and refinish the stock. Does started at $275 mean that's his minimum price? How much would one of those be worth if it looked like the one select has?

    Wonder what else is wrong with the gun?


    hughbetcha, Remington did 5115 guns thru their custom shop. Numrich's does not have any bolts.
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