There was a little metal work that needed to be taken care of too and I knew my friends at C. This rifle would have far more value to me as a shooter in restored condition than as a relic from the past that looked like it should have had better care.
Sharps Arms to have the barrel reblued and the action color casehardened. BUT BEFORE MOUNTING the Marble’s tang sight on the rifle, I boxed up the gun and sent it to C. Stevens Favorites were take-downs the longest part is the 22-inch barrel. Peep sights are my favorites and I’m quite happy that CPA Rifles had a sight in stock for this favorite to wear. To fix that, a new Marble’s tang sight was ordered for the old Favorite from CPA Rifles (). The rear sight on the barrel was just a little too close to my eye for me to see it clearly. This old rifle was too far gone to be considered a collector’s item, so relining the bore was a completely positive move it brought new life to the old gun and made it serviceable once more.Īt least, it would be serviceable for younger eyes. That was inexpensive and it gave me a Favorite with a brand-new bore. The pitted chamber was quickly cured by simply relining the barrel. When the gun was fired, those pits in the chamber made extraction of the fired case rather difficult. 22 wasn’t that bad, but the chamber area had some disturbing pits in it. Actually, the bore of this old, well-used. And on my gun, the outside of the barrel was in better shape than the bore.
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Other Favorites had either round or full octagon barrels. This one has the part octagon barrel, which I do prefer. A friend looked at it and, having a well-studied background in the details of Stevens Favorites, told me my gun is a “parts gun,” made up from parts on hand, which is just fine with me. THAT IDEA LED to my search for a used old Stevens Favorite Model 1915 and I found one for just over $200. 22 shooting.Ī left-side closeup view of the action. A restored Favorite seemed to me a perfect way of getting well-equipped for more good. Others in our group were buying used Favorites, mostly the Model 1915, and using them as-is or having the old guns restored. 22 that I have admired for several years.
One rifle I had never owned is a Stevens Favorite, a. That rescheduling simply gives us more time to iron out any details, in addition to getting some fine. We still hope to have it, perhaps later this year. Although we did have one match scheduled, it had to be cancelled because of the virus shutdown. 22 matches are still a subject of thought. Shooters would be awarded with meat or other prizes, similar to what we give out as prizes in our more common black powder cartridge or muzzleloader matches.Īt this point, the old-style. 22 Long Rifle ammo and it shouldn’t take more time than just the morning. For our little band of shooters, this match would consume 40 to 50 rounds of. The paper targets would be followed by another 10 or 20 shots, taken offhand again, at various gongs and clangers for a plinking portion of this informal match. The bull’s-eye target would absorb another 10 shots. Then we’d move to 50 yards for a bull’s-eye target, which would be shot at from the sitting position while using cross-sticks for muzzle support. Five or 10 shots would be taken at each of those targets. Our plans included two novelty paper targets (a “turkey” and a “beer can”) to be shot at from just 25 yards, shooting offhand. 22 match.” We talked, and then set about putting such a match together. WITHIN OUR SMALL clan of black powder cartridge shooters, one of the guys thought about putting on an “old-style. Here’s the same rifle, restored and with the tang sight added. If I do get to use one of those reloading kits, a report is likely to follow. I have not tried one of those yet, but now I’m thinking that I should. 22 Long Rifle used 5 grains of black powder and the only real difference between those two cartridges is their bullet weight, usually 29 grains for the Long and 40 grains for the Long Rifle. 22 Long followed within a few years, and in 1885, the greatest cartridge of them all was introduced: the. 22 Short is our oldest self-contained metallic cartridge, appearing in the first Smith & Wesson revolver in 1857. 22 rimfires can be considered black powder cartridges. 22s are being focused on in this black powder column is simple: most. 22s would rise in the near future, and our feelings and interests certainly follow what that friend had predicted. One friend of mine said he thought that the popularity of shooting. The guns we like the most are the old single-shots, such as those made by Stevens, Remington and several other makers. 22 match’ leads to an adventure in restoring legendary Stevens single-shot.Īmong the guys I shoot with, there is an increasing interest in old or old-style.
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