clean yer gun

[Soundguy]

I got to work this am, and there was a browning 22 semi auto rifle leaned up against my file cabinet. the style that you pull a spring tube out the back, and can then load in some LR shells thru a hole inthe stock, then reseat the magazine tube spring, and then the cocking piece is underneath.. don't know the model number.

gun belongs to my boss's nephiew, and he said fire pin must be broke as it will only fir once about every 3-5 shots. I'm the 'gun guy' at work since i collect C&R guns and other things.. etc.

Took 10 seconds to see the inards of the gun looked horribly dirty. Took another 30 seconds to figure out how to strip the gun down and seperate the action .. ( I don't really work on guns.. I just collect as a hobby and ... so i pat myself on the back for figuring stuff like this out.. though i have had my hands on just about every kind of action and take down style out there..)

Owner was leaving to go out of state and wanted to get it fixed fast.. I had a can of electrical cleaner and wd-40 ( yuck ) with me... that and a few qtips and a jewlers screwdriver set and i had it back together prety quick.

Took it out to our lime rock mine at lunch and boy howdy.. it shoots great.

The owner was surprised I 'fixed' it so fast and asked what was wrong. I'm not sure he liked my answer which was " I've bought guns from the 1800's that were cleaner."

Soundguy

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

things that make you go "hmmmm"

i work every now and then at a stihl dealer and i can't believe how many people pay 300+ for a new brush trimmer or chainsaw and leave it out in the rain or just flat out abuse them.......crazy

 

[Egon]

Gee, I cleaned a single shot .22 Cooyee Once!

Then I graduated to a bolt action .22 Cooyee tube magazine repeater.

After that I cleaned a semi auto .22 French make that fired from an open bolt position. Wasn't too successful on that one as after my ministrations it only worked on full auto mode!

 

[Skyco]

Wow! How nice it must be to find a gun at work for you to work on.
My employer is so anti-gun/paranoid that we are supposed to be reported to HR if we even discuss guns at work Seriously

 

[jimg]

SG...LOL, your boss sounds like my dad. Almost the same scenario he thought his 22RF rifle was broken but in the end it just needed an eon of built up crud cleaned from it. Sad isnt it!

 

[CurlyDave]

There are many reputable people who will tell you that most of the barrel wear on a .22 comes from overly vigorous cleaning.

I would much rather buy a .22 that suffered from a serious crud build-up than one that had been cleaned every day. Obviously this can be taken to an extreme.

 

[bigshovel]

We shoot alot of iron man competions 100 targets of sporting clays, 50 targets skeet, 50 targets trap, 100 targets interactive steel with 22 rifle and 100 interactive steel targets handgun. My Kimber svt 22 rifle only likes to be cleaned after about 500 rounds, shoots better dirty with standard velocity ammo. My Smith and Wesson 22a pistol seems to want cleaned after every 10 rounds, it hates to be dirty. Funny how that works.

Brad

 

[Soundguy]

This thing was so dirty the bolt couldn't even travel reliably into battery... gobs of dirt.. probably was cleaned at the factory after being built.. and that was it..

shot like a dream once I got the 3 ounces of grey gritty crud out of the action..

soundguy

 

[Podunkadunk]

Tell him the "charge" for "fixing" it is to be first on the contact list when he decides to get rid of it. Sounds like a nice piece.

Podunk

 

[Soundguy]

It's spreading now.. ARGH! Bos's son walks in with a marlin .22 tube feed loader, and a 410 single shot that need work.

.410 only needed the forewood reattached, and a screw identified so he can buy another.. the marlin 22 onthe other hand has a damaged spring .. now I gotta lookup a exploded diagram of it from numark and figure out what the spring is.. and where it 'went'.

I gotta quit letting on that I know about guns.

I remember last hunting season all the company bigwigs brought their deerkillers to me to check with my boresighter, and then take to the company dirt pit to site them in.

Not that it bothered me.. you know.. target practicing and getting pais for it and not having to buy ammo.. but as someone who is also a hunter... I like to site in my own guns... is this -not- a common feeling among other hunters?


In any case... my 'settings' were dead on and got me plenty of deer and elk meat at the end of the corporate hunting trips.

soundguy