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Offline Gun Runner

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« on: March 10, 2005, 01:27:14 PM »
A mod 61 came into my ownership today. About 65-70%. A lot of surface rust (already cleaned off). On each side of the rec can see spots under the blueing, dont want to have it reblued, any ideas. BBL is nice and clean now that I got the spider webs and dust out of it. Have tried 0000 steel wool and hoppes, and that cleaned up all the surface stuff. Wood is in good shape with just a couple of bumps in it. Checked on date of manf via the ser# and it was made in 1956. Price was right, marked down from nothing to free.  :grin:  (no I dint steal it) It had a J.C. higgins scope on it which is now in the round file. (scope was dead). Wont get a chance to shoot it for a couple weeks, but the slide is smooth and its clean inside the  rec.  Can always use another .22 around the place, grand kids are starting to grow real fast.

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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2005, 05:05:20 PM »
OK you cleaned the rust the right way and now leave it as is. Any attempts to restore it besides a good cleaning will ruin any value it has. A Collectable older Winchester even with some rust pits is worth more than a reblued one. Jim
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Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use it.

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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2005, 05:57:03 PM »
jh, reblueing wasant gonna be an option.   I did what I knew how to do (done it more than once) and its just gonna have to have the spots under the blueing. Ifin it shoots good or even fairly good it gonna be a keeper.
I'am not a collector but know a little about guns, even ifin I decide I dont really like it, it can still be passed on to the grandkids.(if they can keep their mother (my daughter) away from it, she's a shooter and likes old guns also). Dont know where she learned anything like that.  :eek:

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« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2005, 10:04:10 AM »
Was not trying to be critical just letting you know that these types of collectable guns the less done to them the better. Cleaning the rust off to protect it is not a problem. Congrats on the nice find. Jim
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« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2005, 02:01:35 PM »
My brother was given one of them thirty years ago by an old lady he did some yard work for.  I wonder if he still has it, and more important I wonder if he took care of it.  I always liked that gun.  Now you got me thinking that I need to start looking around...
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« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2005, 10:13:51 AM »
Gun Runner,

Go to http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catalog.CFPage?appID=36&viewMode=list&catID=23&direction=DESC&gunid=472&mode=viewGun to view the data that Bass Pro Shops has on one.  May give you an idea what they ar bringing price wise.  My ex-brother in-law has two firearms that I want to get my hands on.  One is an almost unfired Win. Model 21 12 ga. with two sets of barrels.  The other is a similar condition Model 61.  He admits to shooting less than 500 rounds thru it ever since his mother gave it to him as a young teenager.  One of these days I am going to catch him at a weak moment(needing money) and those two guns will be mine.  Lawdog
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« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2005, 04:00:21 PM »
Gun Runner:

Hang on to that model 61, they're great little .22s.  I still have the one my Dad gave me (used) for Christmas of 1955.  It was built in 1945, I later learned.  One feature of 'em is, like the model 12s, you can hold the trigger down and rack the slide and empty the magazine fast as a semi-auto.  Was fun on running jackrabbits, but ate ammo pretty quick. :oops:
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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2005, 05:28:38 PM »
Dennis, when I go to the great hunting lodge in the sky, it is stipulated that it goes to the youngest grand son.
I have one of the old rossys. You can do the same thing with them. Stunned my son i law when he saw me do that, said ifin he hadent seen the pump would have thought it to be a semi. And your right, you can go thru a "BUNCH" of ammo shooting it that way.

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« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2005, 05:31:07 AM »
You got the real deal, I'm embarrassed to say what I paid for a 95% mdl 61. But I must say it is the most fun 22 I have to shoot. Love those old classics, shoot'em and pass them down to the young'ins later.
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