1915 Stevens Favorite- long winter project

chris8X57 · April 10

A long time ago, I got this Stevens receiver for mere pennies after some backyard welder blew a hole in the side of it. I threw it in a junk box for a number of years, and then decided to work on it last fall.
First, I dovetailed in a repair plate in the bad side, and then re-drilled and tapped the breech pivot hole. Now the breech and lever pivot on 6mm diameter shoulder screws, and everything is re-bushed or replaced.
The internals are a mix of 1894 and 1915 Favorite parts, with scratch built extractor and links from O1 tool steel. The receiver had many years of rust, so it took a bunch of draw filing and sanding, and ultimately, I ended up nickel plating it.
The barrel is a Green Mountain stainless steel 1-16" twist, chambered with a PT&G reamer in 22LR with SAAMI sporting specs. I turned the barrel blank to a straight taper .937" dia. and used a 15/16" ball cutter to mill the forearm barrel channel.
The gun is resting on what's left of the maple blank I made the stock and forearm out of. I chose maple because I have a couple of chunks laying around in the shop, and I like the light blond color.
The scope manufacturer is not known ( I think Mossberg, but it's unmarked ). I stripped the black paint off of it to reveal the brass body. It was missing the ocular lens cap, so I turned down a brass plumbing pipe and set-screwed it onto the scope tube. Not sure who made the Unertl type rear scope ring, and the front ring is a new Hi-Lux Leatherwood.

I've successfully test fired it for function, and now I just have to take the old girl out and see how that Green Mountain barrel shoots!

Hope you all like this project- it was a lot of fun bringing it back to life.