I have had a old beat up Springfield 84C 22 rifle for ever. Its a std long barrel clip fed 22 with a hard wood stock.
dark no figure it was before. When I was about 20 years old, I refinished the stock. Being its is just hardwood, it came out very blond/yellow. But allot nicer then before. That has been fine. Now move forward to last week, nearly 30 years later...
I pulled it all appart, cleaned up the parts stripped the abbrasions for the steel, a couple coats of 44/40 cold blue. Looks good. This gun (being old) doesn't have scope mount holes or grouved receiver. So not wanting to scope this one, its open sites only. That's fine by me because its 27" barrel will make excellent candidate for peep sites.
I then added a lo Lyman globe front site.
I drifted out the old rear site and replaced it with a slot blank.
For a rear site I found a old side mounted 22 peep. This gun was drilled and tapped for a side mount scope. Using one of those holes set the side perfectly in position between the bolt slot and feed/ejection port. I drilled and tapped one hole in the side and finished mounting the peep. The cut the stock relief for the peep.
On this gun, I need a light, so I picked up a barrel clamp weaver mount off Ebay. I installed that infornt of the stock along with a Surefire light.
Fineally, I scuffed up the finish and sprayed it with Duplicolor Truck Bed Coating. I have used this stuff dozens of times and the finish cones out with a tooth a bit more than shark skin. Looks just like a syn stock and wears like iron on a firearm!
I just zeroed the sites with Calibre no powder bullets in my air gun trap in the basement. Three shots and its good!!
CW
