788

[hops2899]

I posted a while back that the gf wanted to hunt and that I gave her a 788 fixer upper. Well here it is, not professional but a fine job for a first timer. She stripped, dyed and oil finished the wood using Rit fabric dye and tru oil. She also cleaned all metal parts except for the trigger. This gun only looked like a fixer upper, but was truly a basket case. I suspect the previous owner sprayed it with WD40 and let it varnish up, nothing functioned properly. Now, we are no longer an item but I will be taking her to the range and the possibly the woods. Topping it off will be a Weaver K4. I think she has something to be proud of, what say you?

 

[Animalguy]

Fine gun. I've got a couple.
What caliber?

 

[hops2899]

This one is 308, mine is a 243.

 

[cmshoot]

Nice!

I've got rifles that cost me over $5000 and my go-to deer rifle is my old Remington 788 .308. I recrowned the barrel and bedded the action, floated the barrel but bedded the last inch. She'll put 3 rounds of 165grn NBT's in a dime and has been doing it for 17 years with absolutely no shift in POI. I haven't adjusted the scope in 17 years and she's still dead-nuts on.

 

[Henry Bowman]

I've got a 243 and 308 too. I had the 243 on the range for the first time yesterday and I think I have some work to do to wring out the best in her.