I really enjoy taking an old gun that is still serviceable and bring it back to itself and then taking them afield in the fall. Every winter I do so with at least one. I bought this Savage-Springfield 18D shotgun on EE a month+ ago and tore it down and began working on it as a shorter barrelled version of my Marlin 55 that I use for ducks/geese out of a boat (that I also built myself)...
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...stock stripping (beechwood), barrel painting (pigmented epoxy), mechanism clean-up, butt pad added yields this (bottom pic)...
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...will ream and tap for choke tubes some time over the summer...nice pair to have for ducks...one long distance and the other for close/cripples. (The Marlin 55 was in rough shape as well when I was given it last fall.)
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...stock stripping (beechwood), barrel painting (pigmented epoxy), mechanism clean-up, butt pad added yields this (bottom pic)...
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...will ream and tap for choke tubes some time over the summer...nice pair to have for ducks...one long distance and the other for close/cripples. (The Marlin 55 was in rough shape as well when I was given it last fall.)
