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View attachment 19748I have a blast fixing up old 22s that have been been forgotten. I have not had the time or space to do any in a while. Also doing the refinishing with such things as gun coat or any oven hardened finish is not happening with in my house as long as my wife is here.....

My Camera was on the flitz so no before pics. Lets just say it was a good sheen of flaky red with some minor pitting from fron sight to rear. Wood was the standard old redish brown paint/stain that covered up the wood grain pretty well on this. I already bead blasted with aluminum oxide.
Firearm: Sears model 25 22cal 22short HV only(I didnt even know the made High Velocity 22shorts) 22l and 22lr. semi auto tube fed. Made by High standard

Going to finish with a primer and paint, I plan on useing Dupont A-4115s primer its self etching and thin. I migh do a parkerize if I can find a big enough stainless steel pan for the barrel.

Wood is going to get Tung oil and bees wax

and yes it did function, bore was leaded to death and clean as chrome can be after deleading
 
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sounds like quite a project to work on, I wish you the best of luck on it and I cannot wait to see the pics. I have the same problem I can never go near my shotgun with my chick in the house lol, she is here to make sure I "don't shoot my eye out" haha little christmas story reference. hope goes well and as always, live free
 
that thing is gonna look sweet. I used to do that a lot when I was a kid, take the old .22's and restore them then the people that gave them to me would want them back when they saw how nice they looked. I never got to bead blast them clean though.. nice work
 
Rancho usually I can get away with just sanding and slight filing. This particular barrel had some pretty even pitting and just a lot more work than worth it. I was going to parkerize or blue it. Again this was a added cost as Im out of blueing and do not have a tank large enough to fit the barrel and small enough not to need more parkerize chemicals.
I like to do these on a budget. No sense in spending 50$+ on a rifle that I could most likely find for <100.00 in better condition.
Part of the fun is seeing just how little money you can spend on it.
Everything else primer/sandpaper/bead blaster/solvents/tung oil is all left over from other projects. The paint did not come out as well as I liked. after cureing for several days you can almost see the bead blast look through the paint. going to wet sand it and apply a finish coat and be done. In the future I may order some duracoat in clear to finish it off......but thats another project. I will be done with this in a few more days.
 
back together

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Well I took advantage of the calm before the storm and assembled the Sears Model 25( high standard 1041) came out pretty good.
This gun has been around and looks to have been taken apart several times.
1. safety spring was on backwards
2. mismatched retaining clips on the trigger,lifter pins. ACE Hardware actually had these little clevis type pins.
3. a few stripped screws
4. Boat load of powder fouling.
5. rear sight is bent pretty bad.
I polished up the inerds with flitz and 1200 grit paper. I will say the trigger sucks on this beater......lots and lots of take up/creep/slop ect ect also a noisy little trigger with the springs makeing noise and such
I left the trigger and bolt handle the rough brown/crusty patina for a reference, I dont know why I do it. I always leave a part or two in the condition it was before.
I can only imagine how nasty this little gun could get with out the little vent ribs. I don't think it was ever cleaned. Also the only reason why I think the barrel survived so well.
I have a handful of these older scopes so I thought I would toss it on there. I have other scopes that would do a better job just no 3/8 mount rings.
I like doing this to the old and forgotten shooters.
All that's left to do is give the stock a good waxing after the tung oil really sets up, and zero the scope
 
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Looks beautiful. There's definitely something special about berating new life into an old, forgotten shooter.
 
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