"Hey Rob, can you.......

[Handsome Rob]

....take my rifle to the range & sight it in for me? I just got it given?"

 

Edited February 4, 2019 by robtattoo

[Handsome Rob]

[Handsome Rob]

"Nnnnnnnnno. No I can't.

Did you get this off of a dead a Somalian poacher?"

 

To be fair, it is fixable. I mean, not by me (safety doesn't work, bore looks like mice have been using it as a bathroom since '79, firing pin is broken, missing bottom metal & all internals & there's that stock) and it really wouldn't be financially viable to do it, but it 'could' be done.

[MP5_Rizzo]

If I'm reading it correctly as a Model 273 dot something, this rifle was made by Winchester for Sears.

[Handsome Rob]

Model 53. Winchester mod70 made for Sears in the sixties & seventies.

[Quavodus]

Woah. I don't think I've ever seen one like that.

[Handsome Rob]

I'm not 100% sure the grade 5 hex bolts are factory original.....

[Chucktshoes]

19 minutes ago, robtattoo said:

I'm not 100% sure the grade 5 hex bolts are factory original.....

I’m no gunsmith, but you might be right about that. 

[KahrMan]

29 minutes ago, Chucktshoes said:

I’m no gunsmith, but you might be right about that. 

Not so fast.  If they are Craftsman bolts they could be original.....

[Ronald_55]

Lil' but of WD-40 and it will be fine... 

By the way, I think "Hey Rob can you..." should be a weekly column. @robtattoo

Edited February 4, 2019 by Ronald_55

[gregintenn]

I'm really digging the custom trigger guard and floor plate assembly. Did he beat them out of a garbage can lid?

[Handsome Rob]

13 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

I'm really digging the custom trigger guard and floor plate assembly. Did he beat them out of a garbage can lid?

I'm guessing carpet edging strip.....

[Garufa]

19 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

I'm really digging the custom trigger guard and floor plate assembly. Did he beat them out of a garbage can lid?

I was wondering if they were galvanized.

[Capbyrd]

I'd take that on as a project.   But I have an unhealthy love for Sears branded items.  

 

[TomInMN]

2 hours ago, robtattoo said:

Model 53. Winchester mod70 made for Sears in the sixties & seventies.

So then does it have the Sears lifetime replacement warranty? Or is that program kaput with the recent implosion?

[Handsome Rob]

23 minutes ago, TomInMN said:

So then does it have the Sears lifetime replacement warranty? Or is that program kaput with the recent implosion?

I think it's been altered from factory specifications, invalidating any warranty (specific or implied) I'm not positive, but I'm reeeasonably sure.....

 

[Ronald_55]

29 minutes ago, robtattoo said:

I think it's been altered from factory specifications, invalidating any warranty (specific or implied) I'm not positive, but I'm reeeasonably sure.....

 

Sadly, I would love to have this just for shiggles...

[Fourtyfive]

8 hours ago, Ronald_55 said:

Lil' but of WD-40 and it will be fine... 

By the way, I think "Hey Rob can you..." should be a weekly column. @robtattoo

This ....

[Quavodus]

Kinda reminds me of pics of guns that have been confiscated in the middle East.

Edited February 5, 2019 by Quavodus

[gregintenn]

It is classic "Bubba" if I've ever I saw an example.