Winchester Model 12 fresh refinish. Pics Heavy

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I seem to have misplaced the original pictures of the gun. I have stripped the complete gun, blasted and re blued everything on the gun. Stripped the stock and stained it. It took me about 4 days to completely do.

When I got the gun the original owner bought it off of his friend who was a plumber and found this along with 4 other gun wrapped up in a blanket up in a attic. The gun was refinished a long time ago then someone put it away without oiling it. It had some rust and the stock was a little beat up. I got the gun a few months ago then never got around to re-finishing it.

Now here's the finished product.

Let me know what you think

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Looks Fantastic I think the bluing needs some fine polishing with some 0000 steel wool.

Nice, I'd pay more for that than 1 in original dead bluing... but I m not a collector.
 
I used Blackfast 181 bluing solution. A co-worker gave me a little to try on a few guns. Seems to work pretty good. Kinda the same sort of thing as Belgium blue.
 
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Nice project gun. That is also IMO the finest pump action shotgun ever made. If one has any mechanical background, taking one down completely is a wonderful journy.

All parts machined from high quality steel and made to last several lifetimes with proper care, maintenance and a few simple adjustments now and then. No wonder Winchester went t!ts up!

Some will rip ya a new butt hole for "altering" an original M12...more so on some rediculous US forums...but those dudes do know their stuff. Field grade M12's up here in Canada are cheap and readily available with little searching. So for 200-300 bucks and a bit more cash for the "makeover" ya can own and shoot the finest repeater ever made.

I have several that have been reblued...I would recommend a professional job...chokes opened from traditional full to light modified or IC. A few bucks more one can have semi fancy lumber fitted and a trip to the US for factory original rib installation should a guy completely loose his mind.

Again, nice job, enjoy!
 
Thanks, I love these guns and I bought this gun and plan to keep it for a long time. I paid $175 for it so its not a huge deal to re-blue. Its a shame the way they found it. Someone paid a lot of money to have this gun look really nice then put it away with no oil. It has some very small pitting all over the gun so there is nothing you can really do to make it look any nicer. It was either let it continue to rust or save it. I like keeping my guns as original as possible but if they are rusted.....i do this. If anything it adds to the value of this old gun.
 
struff55 said:
Actually you don't have to know how to spell you just have to learn to click on spellcheck.
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This forum has spellcheck? or is it spell check, spell-check or spellchecker? If it has one I do not know how to activate it. I just wait for Win/64 to point out my error;) Now I see that alanb is here to help him:rolleyes:
 
Covey Ridge said:
This forum has spellcheck? or is it spell check, spell-check or spellchecker? If it has one I do not know how to activate it. I just wait for Win/64 to point out my error;) Now I see that alanb is here to help him:rolleyes:
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Why must you always try and bring me into your petty arguments?
 
M12shooter said:
Nice project gun. That is also IMO the finest pump action shotgun ever made. If one has any mechanical background, taking one down completely is a wonderful journy.
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+1 on this. I cleaned up a neglected one for some in-laws a couple years back. I remember the moment when I realized just how much machining had gone into the lifter. Holy [bleep].
 
Thanks guys. I was playing it tonight and cycling some dummy rounds through it and found it had a cycling problem. Pulled the mag tube apart and found it was just completely rusted. The follower was grabbing on the rust. I went over it with steel wool and oil to get the rust off the follower and used a barrel brush to clean out the mag tube. Cleaned of the spring, oiled it all up and now it cycles great. Funny thing is someone pinned it with half a chair leg and a wooden dowel.

Actually today I did another resto for a Ithaca model 37 16 gauge that was all beat to s**t. I didnt end up getting any pics on this ones resto. The stock was all beat up and the checkering was messed up so I sanded all of the marks out and completly sanded all of the checkering out. Sanded the receiver to remove most of the heavy scratches and then bead blasted it and the same on the barrel. I had to cut 1 1/2' of the end of the barrel because someone severely messed up the bead. They tried getting it out and heated it up and melted the bead. There was no way to fix it but cut it off. I didn't remove enough barrel to remove the choke so it is still full choke.

This is what it looks like.

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This is the barrel.

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