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Gun procastination?

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Anything you guys got overdue gun wise? Gun needs a scope, repair work, finishing a project?

Got a flintlock I need to dial in well. Probably more a shootign competition piece than for hunting, bt itll go out with me every now n then.

Still got to camo paint a few guns. I have small 22 range for practice at home. Wanted to cut back into the woods a bit more. Want to get 35 yards instead of 25. Practice target is a self healing targert a little bigger than a cherry. Offhand and have a chair with a rest to act like a treestand.

What are you guys lazy on?
 
Countless things to finish load development on. Lots of things along that line.

Otherwise, some of the most egregious sins would be...

I have a Savage shotgun I took apart to work on.... just looked at an online post where I mention it.... looks like October of 2024. It's still in pieces. I would have sworn it was Oct 2025 when I did.

I took a Ruger No.1 apart to take a Jard trigger out of it, put the factory trigger back in and sell it. That would have been 2021. It's still in pieces.

I have a Mossberg SSI shotgun that I took apart to add a better recoil pad to. Cut the stock and never went any farther. That was probably 2004? It's still in pieces.

I have a muzzle loader that's been apart for probably 30 years. I've slowly pieced it all together over time, but there's still a barrel band missing.

And when I say in pieces, I don't mean together waiting to go back together, I mean scattered here, there and everywhere.
 
I have 1927 Winchester 1894 I need to get around to figuring out how to scope without drilling holes. When our herd bounces back I’d like to drop the hammer on one with it.
 
I need to get my new range toy tonthe range. Alas, it will have to wait til May.

Super stoked about it, though.
 
I bought a circa 1911 LC Smith SxS two years ago. Had it reblued and case hardened and intended to refinish the stock myself. It was in much worse shape than I realized and decided to restock it. Not willing to spend $2500+ to have it done professionally, I thought I'd try my hand at doing it myself. Project is way above my skill level. It's been sitting idle for a year now.
 
Yep....bought a pristine early 80's Ruger 77 in .257 Roberts two years ago and mounted it with a vintage Leupold 2x7. Have yet to get to the range with it...which is ridiculous as my range is my back 40 and really I just have no excuse. Pathetic.
 
I also need to clean my silencer. I've never cleaned it, and there are bits of white fouling rattling around inside.
 
All of a sudden I feel much better about myself, I only have one gun in pieces. 🤣
 
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I was hoping for at least the magnification of an old Weaver 2.5 scope. Give me a little zoom but keep it old school.
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You should have bought a Marlin!
 

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Bill said:
I was hoping for at least the magnification of an old Weaver 2.5 scope. Give me a little zoom but keep it old school.
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I took the lyman 66 peep off my glenfield model 30 (marlin 336) and put the swift scope on it. I used to have a fleet of gun with lyman peeps on them. Only have a marlin 22lr bolt gun with a lyman 90 and a lyman great plains rifle 54 cal flintlock with a 57gpr peep on it.

Put the scope on the 30-30 because I wasn't shooting the 450 marlin for a few years. Might put a peep back on her because the 450 in manageable now with 45-70 trapdoor recipe.

I got several SKS I haven't shot in years, just too busy. At least Im back in the groove of using the backyard 22lr range again. I got a small fleet of 22lr's and only shoot 2 really.
 
Speaking of guns in pieces. I have a Remington nylon 66 black diamond .22 semi.

Took that apart to give it a good cleaning and spring loaded stuff shot out where I couldn’t see where it came from. Took 2 years to get that figured out. Never again….
 
The internet has made them a lot easier to work on. I've had people tell me to never take one apart. Another described it like rebuilding an automatic transmission. I took thet as challenge accepted and bought the first one I ran across. Never did take it apart though.

I have watched a few videos. Didn't look too bad, but certainly not intuitive. As I said, the internet made it easy.

First gun I took apart was a Daisy BB gun, an NRA commemorative. Something my grandfather had bought and my grandmother had given to me years later. I took it apart, and my mother kept calling me to come down for dinner. I finally had to relent go on down. After dinner I couldn't remember what went where. That was 1980, it never did get back together. 😥

The next was a Ruger Single Six. I got that back together with just a minor bit of fuss, not knowing I should have caputred the hammer spring before hand. That made it a bit harder. I think I was 12.
 
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Bill said:
Speaking of guns in pieces. I have a Remington nylon 66 black diamond .22 semi.

Took that apart to give it a good cleaning and spring loaded stuff shot out where I couldn’t see where it came from. Took 2 years to get that figured out. Never again….
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I've never heard of anyone cleaning a 66!
 
Had a marlin 60 apart for almost a decade. PPut it back together last year, shorten the stock and inch or two, and put a burris fastfire red dot on it. Put the same red dot on my wife's SKS. Knock on her door first and dont complain about her cookin'.............
 
Started building an AR about 10 years ago it’s still about half done I had built many AR’s and I guess that’s just where I was in the process when the AR building bug finally wore off. I do need to at least finish that one though I was building it as a dedicated long range rig but now I’d rather have a shorter 16”- 20” barreled utility style rifle. I had been waiting for a 26” barrel to come back in stock from White Oak Armament but now if I get around to finishing the project I’d likely order a shorter barrel probably still a bull barrel but a much shorter one maybe in 20 practical caliber.
 
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Started building an AR about 10 years ago it’s still about half done I had built many AR’s and I guess that’s just where I was in the process when the AR building bug finally wore off. I do need to at least finish that one though I was building it as a dedicated long range rig but now I’d rather have a shorter 16”- 20” barreled utility style rifle. I had been waiting for a 26” barrel to come back in stock from White Oak Armament but now if I get around to finishing the project I’d likely order a shorter barrel probably still a bull barrel but a much shorter one maybe in 20 practical caliber.
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What parts are you missing. I just built one and tried to price everything super cheap because it's just a range toy. There are some deal out there as long as you don't need tungsten.
 
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