minni
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Post by minni on Aug 17, 2020 22:15:21 GMT -5
I’ve come to own a Remington number 4 takedown .22 and was wondering if anyone has seen a rim fire of this age with a decent period correct scope? I know I know, I shouldn’t be messing with it since it was made in the 20’s but the gunsmith I bought it from had already refinished the wood and to be honest it’s a great little gun. The iron sights aren’t bad, but they’re far from good. The front has such a round ball on top that if I have considered filing it to a point or trying to find new sights. I will be using this gun for tree rats this winter.
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Post by stevein on Aug 18, 2020 23:31:51 GMT -5
One of these scopes would look great. Probably worth more than the rifle though. montanavintagearms.com/scopes/Probably an old Weaver would look ok. Dad's 22 had an old prewar Weaver on it. His 25-20 had a weaver back end and a power mutiplier that screwed onto the scope. Getting the correct mount would be the challange. Also they are dark compared to todays scopes. They had a lot of scopes back then. There are a couple of places that rebuild them. |
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minni
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Post by minni on Aug 19, 2020 4:49:29 GMT -5
One of these scopes would look great. Probably worth more than the rifle though. montanavintagearms.com/scopes/Probably an old Weaver would look ok. Dad's 22 had an old prewar Weaver on it. His 25-20 had a weaver back end and a power mutiplier that screwed onto the scope. Getting the correct mount would be the challange. Also they are dark compared to todays scopes. They had a lot of scopes back then. There are a couple of places that rebuild them. I was hoping since it was an octagon barrel that a gun smith would be able to just drill and tap a mount onto it. I recently moved and haven’t found one near me yet but does that sound possible? |
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Post by bullseye69 on Aug 19, 2020 7:02:22 GMT -5
One of these scopes would look great. Probably worth more than the rifle though. montanavintagearms.com/scopes/Probably an old Weaver would look ok. Dad's 22 had an old prewar Weaver on it. His 25-20 had a weaver back end and a power mutiplier that screwed onto the scope. Getting the correct mount would be the challange. Also they are dark compared to todays scopes. They had a lot of scopes back then. There are a couple of places that rebuild them. I was hoping since it was an octagon barrel that a gun smith would be able to just drill and tap a mount onto it. I recently moved and haven’t found one near me yet but does that sound possible? Should be possible. |
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Post by stevein on Aug 19, 2020 7:49:39 GMT -5
I drilled and tapped a lot of TC barrels for Weaver bases. Had a Bridgaport to wo do it on. I think I used a Marlin 336 base.
Never vented one either. That Remington probably has a tapered barrel the Smith will need to take a little longer to set up.
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Post by bullseye69 on Aug 20, 2020 6:42:41 GMT -5
I have never seen a tapered octagon barrel. Is there such a thing?
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Post by stevein on Aug 20, 2020 11:31:13 GMT -5
I have never seen a tapered octagon barrel. Is there such a thing? You need to get out more. There are several forms of octagon. Straight parallel flats Tapered wider at the breech tapering at a constant rate to the muzzle. What you will see on breech loaders. Swamped these start widest at the breech and taper to somewhere past center then change to a lower taper towards the muzzle where the barrel flares out to the muzzle but not as wide as the breech. Most of the high end custom muzzle loaders will have a swamped barrel. The tapered and swamped barrels take advantage of thicker breeches where the pressure is higher. They also place weight closer to the breech. My Marlin 25-20 1894 made in 1895 with a 24" barrel starts at .840" at the breech and .730 at the muzzle. |
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Post by bullseye69 on Aug 20, 2020 11:43:22 GMT -5
Probably have seen one but I don't have any interest in octagon barreled guns and just pass on by them so have not paid attention to them. Plus I have never had to work on any either.
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