Hi,
I wanted an inexpensive .22 for small game, the range, and teaching my kids. CGN forms were an awesome resource during this process. I was split between a Cooey or a 10/22. I decided against the 10/22 because I didn't think it would fit the last two of my aforementioned criteria.
I went to Ellwood's (for the first time) after checking their online list, and calling ahead to verify their selection.
Great guy pointed me towards several Cooeys and Lakefields. We tried to size them up on my young shooter, only to realize that the stocks were throwing him off. The salesman told me to hang on and proceeded to pull out a Lakefield Mark I that had been transformed like this: pink, cut stock, checkering sanded away, and very gunky.
The darn thing fit my younger shooter perfectly - like a glove.
The price was right, and it came with a Tasco scope and iron sights that were intact.
How could I resist right?
If you've ever adopted from the pound, you know what I mean.
I took it home and took it apart.
Cleaned out the gunk with Hoppes Solvent, patches and Q-tips.
Ran a brush down the bore twice after a solvent soak, and then dry patches and then oil.
All iron was wiped clean, then wiped dry, then wiped down with Hoppes Oil.
With the butt plate and the trigger guard off, I sanded the pink varnish off. I then asked my junior shooter to choose a stain from one of the spare cans....
The two of us used a rag to apply it
This is it after 4 coats of minwax polyshade
While it cured, I took a bore brush to the bolt which I could just not clean. It was black in all the wrong places. Some solvent and some brushing fixed that.
Here it is reassembled , minus the butt plate
It's not as glossy up close, and a bit of its character has been altered by the missing checkering (I didn't do that).
We took it to the range and here's what she did with Remington .22LR Gold bulk, at 25 yards, without adjusting the scope that I found on it at all:
then,
then,
I wanted an inexpensive .22 for small game, the range, and teaching my kids. CGN forms were an awesome resource during this process. I was split between a Cooey or a 10/22. I decided against the 10/22 because I didn't think it would fit the last two of my aforementioned criteria.
I went to Ellwood's (for the first time) after checking their online list, and calling ahead to verify their selection.
Great guy pointed me towards several Cooeys and Lakefields. We tried to size them up on my young shooter, only to realize that the stocks were throwing him off. The salesman told me to hang on and proceeded to pull out a Lakefield Mark I that had been transformed like this: pink, cut stock, checkering sanded away, and very gunky.
The darn thing fit my younger shooter perfectly - like a glove.
The price was right, and it came with a Tasco scope and iron sights that were intact.
How could I resist right?
If you've ever adopted from the pound, you know what I mean.
I took it home and took it apart.
Cleaned out the gunk with Hoppes Solvent, patches and Q-tips.
Ran a brush down the bore twice after a solvent soak, and then dry patches and then oil.
All iron was wiped clean, then wiped dry, then wiped down with Hoppes Oil.
With the butt plate and the trigger guard off, I sanded the pink varnish off. I then asked my junior shooter to choose a stain from one of the spare cans....
The two of us used a rag to apply it
This is it after 4 coats of minwax polyshade
While it cured, I took a bore brush to the bolt which I could just not clean. It was black in all the wrong places. Some solvent and some brushing fixed that.
Here it is reassembled , minus the butt plate
It's not as glossy up close, and a bit of its character has been altered by the missing checkering (I didn't do that).
We took it to the range and here's what she did with Remington .22LR Gold bulk, at 25 yards, without adjusting the scope that I found on it at all:
then,
then,
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