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An old friend of the family dropped off a "gun" to my Mom's house last week and asked if I'd take a look at it to figure out what was wrong with it, determine some value for it, make him an offer, or basically whatever.... he didn't care or want the gun. I won't go into details, but I knew more about the history of that gun than he did, and he had lived with the lady that originally owned it for nearly 20 years (she died about 5 years ago).... I knew her since 1957. Her former husband had bought the gun for her in 1978-1979, and I'm sure she had probably only shot 5 "hardball" rounds through it before it was loaded with shotshells and tucked away. That's how it came to me last Saturday morning. The cylinder was totally locked up, the action was immovable, and it was stoked full of plastic capped shotshells.. The nickle finish was pristine, there was no sign of raccoon eyes on the cylinder face, and looking into the barrel you could still see the machining marks in the lands and grooves. That gun had been set back with those same corroded shotshells, and original factory "goo" since 1979. A few shots of GunBlast solvent on Saturday, then again on Sunday, and a bit more this morning and I was finally able to unglue the crane from the frame and use a dowell rod to hammer out the shotshells. I could tell the innards were locked up just about as bad as the crane, so I called him this afternoon and told him what to expect, which would include a trip to a gunsmith to make it "operational". He let me know that he really didn't care about the gun, and I offered him $125, to which he countered with $100
. I told him there would be an envelope with $125 at my Mom's house for him when he stops by to visit her on Friday. So....since it was mine, I knocked the side plate off tonight, stripped it, degunked, re-lubed and re-assembled. SCORE
I had forgotten how stiff the Model 36 trigger was in DA. If this is going into mrs surv's collection, I'm going to have to replace all the springs with reduced power springs. I had breifly considered using it for trade for reloading tools and components, but the "history ties" are probably gonna cause this one to stay around. (and I don't like the fit of j-frames)
surv
. I told him there would be an envelope with $125 at my Mom's house for him when he stops by to visit her on Friday. So....since it was mine, I knocked the side plate off tonight, stripped it, degunked, re-lubed and re-assembled. SCOREI had forgotten how stiff the Model 36 trigger was in DA. If this is going into mrs surv's collection, I'm going to have to replace all the springs with reduced power springs. I had breifly considered using it for trade for reloading tools and components, but the "history ties" are probably gonna cause this one to stay around. (and I don't like the fit of j-frames)
surv
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