New life for a stevens favorite

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Here is a pre 1915 stevens favorite that I built this winter. It has a new green mountain barrel #1 taper turned to half round, CPA stevens stock blank, marlin ballard buttplate, rust blued barrel, nitre bluesd block, hammer and screws and wood/bone charcoal casehardend action, lever and buttplate. All in all I am pleased with this little rifle but it did take alot of work to build.




 
Thanks, this will definately be a shooter. A 12 year old will be competing with it at Selkirk. I built one for me on a 44 action and that is the most accurate 22 I have ever owned. It will be interesting to see how the two compair. Here are some pictures of the favorite action and buttplate.



 
Beautiful work! I have been looking for a project like that myself for my grand daughter. I'm not really handy with wood thou.
Did you do the case hardening yourself?
 
Thanks, i would encourage you to build one for your grand daughter. Stevens favorite is an inexpensive action and relatively easy to work on. This project was a bit harder because of the pistol grip so I had to bend the tang and make a new main spring but if you stick to a straight grip it is a pretty easy gun to stock. I have built a few from CPA and treebone precarves and that simpliefies the wood working but it still takes patience. My advice is get some sharp files and use them and leave the sand paper until the very end. For bluing I prefer rust bluing using the Belgium Blue from Brownells.

I did the casehardening but I have been playing around with that for 18 years and I am still learning. Unless you plan on doing a bunch in the future i would suggest getting Oskar kob to do it for you, his work is amazing and much cheaper than buying a muffle furnace and all the supplies. I ahve a lot of fun playing with casehardening but it has not been a money saving venture.

Good luck with your project.
 
Some might say " All that work for a Favorite?". But to me it looks just right. You Sir, do nice work.

I've got a couple of Favorite receivers with no internals that I got from a gun show. The plan was to use the other Favorite that is all together for patterns to make up the new parts needed to get these two receivers going. I think I may need to raise my sights a little and see if I can reach for something more like what you've shown us.

Thank you for the inspiration to do better.
 
Thanks, I am happy with how it turned out. I have accumulated a number of actions and parts as well. Not sure why there are frames out there with out internals but I have a couple as well. I hadn't thought of making the internals but there is no reason not too. Not sure what I will do with all of mine but we will see. Occassionally I think I should caseharden some and sell them for people to build projects on but so far I seem to be better at accumulating them than completing them.
 
Here is another teaser, I built this one on a 44 action about 3 years ago.
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