NAACO Grizzly .22 Project

[Goosehunter82]

So I rescued a NAACO Grizzly from Bubba who had painted the whole thing camo then clear coated it. He also did a home made thread job and marred the barrel pretty bad with a vice.

I picked it up cheap so I've been using it to work on some skills.

For the stock, I stripped, sanded, steamed out the dents and practiced my checkering and did some wood inlay. Next I plan to do some silver wire inlay around the wood inlay to make it pop...and hide some errors I made.





For the metal I stripped and sanded everything and had to cut the barrel back to 18" to get rid of all the marring. I filed off the marks and sanded it and while I've got the cut close to 90 my eye can still see its off. Does anyone have any tricks for squaring up the muzzle face? I don't want to have to buy the tool from Brownells if I don't have to, there must be something at local machine/tool shop I can use?



I'll do some cold bluing to finish it all up and will post some pics when I've got a finished product.

Thanks for any comments/insight in advance.

GH82

 

[marshall]

Easy way with the crown , find a lathe guy and have him do a clean up cut and a bit of recess.
If that is you first checkering job, you did good, thou I would have run the lines different.

 

[Goosehunter82]

Thanks, I was hoping, if possible, to do it a in a way without having to pay someone for any work. I’m not opposed would just prefer not too.

Second ever attempt at checkering. I’m interested how you would have laid the lines and why?

 

[marshall]

If you want to do the crown your self, and have GOOD files, try clamping two straight hardwood blocks to the barrel, at end and file till to the square blocks , or use a good square and mark the hi spot, file that off, recheck with the square, and repeat, I did say a good clean file? I will admit, I have never done it this way, but should not be hard if the barrel has not much taper , and you take your time.
If you have a long drill press, you could use a small round stone and clean the end of the rifling up, just enough to take the sharp edge off, but if end is not square, that is first
I usually lay out my lines so they are at the same angle to the center line of the pattern, hard to explain, usually 30 degrees from the center= 60 degrees pattern.
Some where I have a book I got years ago with pictures and different styles and suggestions, most of the time I just winged it if it was my gun.
I find it to hard on the old eyes now, I can sit for about 20 min at a time or less these days.

 

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[Goosehunter82]

The wood block trick worked great for the end of the barrel.

I'm keeping my eye out for a book on checkering. Right now I'm just practicing on my guns or old ones kicking around the farm like old Cooey's.

 

[marshall]

when I get done a couple projects, I will have a look for it in my boxes of books ,that the wife complains about and see if I can tell you what it is, it is a small booklet I think

The wood block trick worked great for the end of the barrel.

I'm keeping my eye out for a book on checkering. Right now I'm just practicing on my guns or old ones kicking around the farm like old Cooey's.

 

[Dogfish858]

Cinch a small pipe clamp down on the barrel? Should self-center.

 

[tiriaq]

To finish the actual end of the bore, use a round head brass screw in a drill with some lapping compound. This does a nice neat job.

 

[Goosehunter82]

Yeah I've heard a brass slot screw or a stainless steel cap nut with valve grinding compound does a great job. I'd love to get a few chamfer tools but they're damn expensive and I'm not interested in sinking a lot of money into this .22 project.