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My dad bought this new and it survived 6 kids and who knows how many rounds. I`m the youngest (41yrs old). Couldn`t believe the shape its in. Its a Lakefield Mossberg Repeater with a 6 shot clip.
Does anyone know what year this would be?
What were they like as a shooter?
The slits in the barrel, is this for mounting a scope? If so, what type of base/rings would fit???
Thanks for looking!
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Savage bought Lakefield. That same rifle is currently produced as the Savage Mark 2 with some updating.

Hard to tell in your pictures, but that could be a 'tip off' mount.
 
Nice ! I think my step-father has the same rifle (circa early 1970's). Except he can't find the bolt ! LoL

I'd put a light coat of grease on her & throw it in the safe for when your grandkids are old enough.

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if there is no serial numbers, it was made pre 1968, when it became mandatory to have serials . Excellent gopher guns and the slots are for scope mounting. The mag also can be purchased from Savage Arms in a 10 shot .
 
Winnipeg Toymaker said:
if there is no serial numbers, it was made pre 1968, when it became mandatory to have serials . Excellent gopher guns and the slots are for scope mounting. The mag also can be purchased from Savage Arms in a 10 shot .
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I`m glad you mention the serial number thing, I was just thinking that. There is absolutely no serial number to be seen on it. As for storing it, NO WAY....this little gun is going to see some use thats for sure!!! Have no kids, never will.
I cleaned and oiled it this morning. As for the clip, yes I thought about the 10 shot. Seen one hanging in the store made by Savage, it looked very similar and I was going tomorrow to see if my luck was that good that it would fit!!!!!
Last night when I started this post, I guess I shouldn`t have referred to the "grooves" as "slits in the barrel". A scope would be nice, but I was thinking: there isn`t nothing more impressive as getting real accurate using the old sights!!!!. Can someone tell me why the rear was adjustable? Was this for sighting in at a given distance? I won`t mess with it till I get quite a few rounds shot through it.
 
ginnz said:
its a "dovetailed" receiver. And what do you mean "Can someone tell me why the rear was adjustable?" ?

the rear is adjustable for elevation!
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Thats what I mean`t. Just didn`t know whether a guy would play with the adjustable to be accurate at a certain yardage, or leave it alone.
 
Best plan is to adjust the rear sight, to get it to shoot where you want it to shoot. Sighted about thirty to fifty yards is about right for iron sights. If it has the usual litle notched elevator, one notch may be too low, while the next one may be too high. If that is the case just file down a bit, the one that was too high.
If it is out sideways, tap the sight in its slot, in the direction you want the bullets to go.
Scopes designed for 22 rimfire rifles will fit the mount. Canadian tire have scopes suitable for it for about 30 dollars.
A really excellent rimfire scope is the Scorpion, designed and sold out of Winnipeg. The 4x, which I prefer over their variable, is about $60. I have one mounted on a Winchester 69A rifle and it is a very clear, solid scope.
Google Scorpion scopes.
I notice your rifle has "Mossberg" on it, indicating it was made by Mossberg. For many years, including up to about the mid 60s, Mossberg pretty well dominated the lower priced 22 sporting rifle class in in competetive shooting in north america. There were many different grades of Mossberg out there, but even the lowest priced ones were strong, reliable rifles and fairly accurate. The best Mossbergs had much better aperature sights and better triggers and came close to the Winchester 69A in quality.
I would place yours as one of the lower priced Mossberg's.
 
Thanks H4831 for the info! Took it out today and shot 26 shells through it. I think it just needs to be used often again. I cleaned and oiled it, but the little arms on the bolt that extract the shells don`t do their thing all the time. There were maybe 4-5 shells, I needed to dig out of the barrel. Sometimes it would extract, but not let go of the shell. These little arms I talk about, they do move freely and I oiled them good, I think they just need a good work-out. I was quite surprised, it is a fairly straight shooter!
 
its the extractor your referring to. make sure there clean, and the edge's on them are sharp. they should be "hooked" to grab the shell's edge. examine them and how they work, if need be, you can remove them and file down an edge a tiny bit so they can clamp down a bit better on the rim fire's lip..... if you look closely at them, you'll know what i mean, and i think you'll be able to figure them out. :)
 
ginnz said:
its the extractor your referring to. make sure there clean, and the edge's on them are sharp. they should be "hooked" to grab the shell's edge. examine them and how they work, if need be, you can remove them and file down an edge a tiny bit so they can clamp down a bit better on the rim fire's lip..... if you look closely at them, you'll know what i mean, and i think you'll be able to figure them out. :)
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Thanks. Yeah thought if it doesn`t smarten up with oil....I`ll take them apart and make sure they are clean. I just want to make sure "roll pins" are available before I drive the old ones out. Knowing me, one will go flying and not be able to find it lol.
 
be sure the extractors channels are clean and the nitches where they fit on the action end of the barrel. These get plugged up with residue and stop the extractor from gripping the casing.
 
I think I might have this "glitch" narrowed down.
Bare with me here as I try to explain:
- If I take the bolt out of the gun and manual insert a shell into the extractor arms, I can reinstall the bolt and close it/re-open it multiple times and it does what it is suppose to do.
- If I manually load one shell and close/open the bolt, it does what it is suppose to do.
- Now, if I load the 6 shot clip and insert it fully, once I cycle the bolt....rarely will it pull the shell out maybe 10% of the time. Out of the six shells, 1....2 if I`m lucky will the extractor grab the shell.
Now if I go back to: No clip, load manually...it will work fine.

It has to be something with this old clip. It slides in very nicely and clicks once installed. This problem only happens when the shells are loaded in the clip.
 
darcy32171 said:
Thanks. Yeah thought if it doesn`t smarten up with oil....I`ll take them apart and make sure they are clean. I just want to make sure "roll pins" are available before I drive the old ones out. Knowing me, one will go flying and not be able to find it lol.
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Do it in a big plastic bag.
Kim
 
Sounds like you may have a burr in the chamber since the extractor works fine except when chambered and fired.

Dry firing that rifle can cause that and it can be easily fixed by filing it out.
 
The extractor springs are known to be weak on those rifles, if you double them up if really helps, just get two new springs and double them up, bet it takes care if the problems, this is after you clean out the slots of course. Yes the 10rd Savage mags will fit.
 
I just phoned a gun parts place in Edmonton. They tell me that there is a extractor guide and a chamber guide for the arms on the bolt. To me they look identical. If this is true, I have no problems chambering a round, just extracting it....which one is the extractor arm???? I want to try and clean/file it before paying the $25/plus shipping for a new one. Sorry for the last pic being blurry.
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Well I ended up driving both rollpins out. I cleaned the arms and filed both the best I could. I didn`t want to go over board with the filing. It seems to work alot better! I tried 20 shells and all 20 came out. I had about 4-5 that the arms would not let go and extract the shell out of the gun, but at least its grabbing them now!! It also seems to work much better with the new 10 shot clip I bought today. Thanks for all the help and suggestions guys!
 
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