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Posted: 4/7/2004 10:16:44 PM EDT
| Well I have had my C&R for around 2 months I finally broke down and ordered stuff I got 2 M44 2 91/30 and 3 1938 mosins and a CZ52 ordered. |
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Woohooo!!! The BBT brought my first C&R today! It seems like I've been trying to order a gun for a few weeks without any luck. Aztec didn't have my C&R due to their ghetto-assed post office, trying to find a 98k has been difficult, and my M1 Garand has been held up at CMP. This one is a '42 Izzy from Aztec. The barrel is virtually brand new. A couple of swabs and I was done. Excellent rifling. All matching parts with the usual lined out/renumbered floor plate. No electropenciling - just the diminutive rolled on marking on the receiver with the "proper" serial number. The stock was in pretty good shape - the shellac had been really gooped on thick on the front handguards, so I decided to refinish it. Old, thick shellac tends to get really darkand brittle. The upper handguard was the worst, so I started sanding, thinking that I would just take some of the finish off but not all. I cut through too much, so I sanded the whole upper handguard down and stripped the stock. The upper handguard was still too light, so I wiped on some gel stain - just a little bit to make the colors match better (a light coat of stain on the stock as well to make the huematch better.) I didn't make the stock look pristine by any stretch of the imagination - it just wouldn't look right. It still has a lot of volor variations and patina. I'll let the stain dry overnight and shoot on a couple of coats of catalyzed lacquer in the morning followed by a light steel-wooling. I'm very excited about the gun - just what I was hoping for, and what a steal for $50! |
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