When it comes to gun activities, lately I've been test firing, cleaning, and putting troublesome guns aright. I've been losing context on the fun part. Today, I helped reverse that course. One of Dave's guns that came my way is a Remington Model 582. That's a bolt action, tube fed .22.
This rifle started out as one of the first of the problem guns I encountered early in the process. It didn't take long for me to discover the rifle was inoperable. The trigger mechanism was frozen up due to lack of activity for decades. This part is a little assembly in a die cast housing; I'm sure it was intended to be replaced as an assembly and not taken apart and repaired. Since they are no longer available, I didn't have any choice but to take it apart and make repairs. Which I did successfully. As part of that repair, I removed the scope and rings. Later, I put the scope back on but didn't get around to re-zeroing it until today.
This was the refreshing part. Once I got it zeroed, I just sat there at the bench and plinked away at 50 yards, seeing how many shots I could get in the bull's eye. This is the part I haven't been able to enjoy much lately, the sheer fun of it.
This gun dates to 1970. The action is somewhat different from the immediately preceding comparable rifles in the low numbered 500 series. It mounts a Bushnell Banner 3-9x. The scope and the mounts are marked, "Made in Japan," before China took away all that business. I wonder if President Nixon could've known the monster he unleashed when he "normalized" US relations with Red China.
This rifle started out as one of the first of the problem guns I encountered early in the process. It didn't take long for me to discover the rifle was inoperable. The trigger mechanism was frozen up due to lack of activity for decades. This part is a little assembly in a die cast housing; I'm sure it was intended to be replaced as an assembly and not taken apart and repaired. Since they are no longer available, I didn't have any choice but to take it apart and make repairs. Which I did successfully. As part of that repair, I removed the scope and rings. Later, I put the scope back on but didn't get around to re-zeroing it until today.
This was the refreshing part. Once I got it zeroed, I just sat there at the bench and plinked away at 50 yards, seeing how many shots I could get in the bull's eye. This is the part I haven't been able to enjoy much lately, the sheer fun of it.
This gun dates to 1970. The action is somewhat different from the immediately preceding comparable rifles in the low numbered 500 series. It mounts a Bushnell Banner 3-9x. The scope and the mounts are marked, "Made in Japan," before China took away all that business. I wonder if President Nixon could've known the monster he unleashed when he "normalized" US relations with Red China.
