Sportster dissassembly

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I've had my .17hmr Sportster for several years.  AWESOME gun.  My only complaint, it rusts the moment you even look at it.  I'm tired of dealing with the rust.  Recently I began shooting Duracoat on several firearm and archery projects and had great results.  So now it is time for the Sportster to get Duracoat on the barrel and receiver.  My question is ... before I start driving out pins ... is there a disassembly process that I should follow?  Can anyone give me a break down on how to remove the trigger group and hammer workings.  Then an tips on putting it all back together?  In the end I only want the barrel and receiver duracoated in a Coyote Mat Brown Finish.  The pins, trigger, trigger guard, hammer, and action release will remain black as accents.  Also will be doing the scope mount in brown with the scope black.  Stock shall remain black.  Should look pretty cool when I'm done.

Any tips on tear down and re-assembly would be great!

[quickdtoo]

Read the trigger hone info in the FAQs and Help sticky. 

Tim

[dec]

Thank you.  That is what I was looking for.  I never would have thought about driving the pins only from the right side.  I like the plexi template idea as well.

[quickdtoo]

Might as well do a trigger job while you're in there. Just out of curiosity, what gun oil do you use? I've never had a problem with rust on any of my forty-seven H&Rs stored in my 55-60% humidity basement, only two are painted, did that cuz they're turkey guns, one is bright nickel finished.

Tim

http://www.6mmbr.com/corrosiontest.html

http://www.thegunzone.com/rust.html

[dec]

I'll probably leave the trigger alone.  I've grown accustomed to the gun.  It is a tack driving - woodchuck killing machine as is.

As for oil, I've tried many, Rem Oil, Tri-flow, and other gun oils that I've picked up.  I'll be honest, I'm a slob when it comes to my guns.  I shoot them, put them away, and expect the next time I pick them up for them to be as I left them.  Probably why I own so many dipped guns (next to no finish maintenance).  Most of the time my Sportster gets grabbed on a humid day to thump the woodchuck that I saw out back.  I'm sweating, I grab it, let the gun do it's thing, then I go back to what I was doing; meaning the gun gets thrown back in the case "as is".  Then it rusts.  I hate grabbing an oily gun as well.

I thought about film dipping it.  But I've been doing a lot of duracoating myself as of late.  Duracoat seems to be an almost no-maintenance finish so far for me, so that is what I'm going to do with the Sportster.  It will give it a different look that has the durability that I don't really have to think too much about.

Like I say ... I'm kind of a slob with my guns.

[quickdtoo]

If you like dry, try Eezox, after a couple days, it dries to non-oily, dust free film as long as you don't put too much on, the more you put on, the longer it takes to dry.

Tim

[dec]

Thanks, I'll have to try some of that on my other guns.  Where can I get some of that stuff?  Is there an online source for it?

I tore the Sportster down last night ... hope I remember how it all goes back together in a few weeks.

[quickdtoo]

Here's a dealer list, I get mine from Midway since the shop that sold it here closed. 

Tim

http://eezox.com/dealers.html

[dec]

And here is the assembled result after the Duracoat application to my Sportster.

[quickdtoo]

Lookin good!! 

Tim