Augie
Ultimate Member
Did my once every couple month check on the local pawn shop Saturday and found a well worn standard A5 looking pretty forlorn against the wall. Normally I avoid guns like this but the price was reasonable for condition. I could see the wood had all the checkering sanded off, the metal was an even brown but the engraving was very shallow and soft like it had been reblued.
Did the deal as I was looking for a full choke solid rib barrel and took it home. Took it apart and the barrel and receiver serial number match. Started cleaning it and found all the metal was covered with some sort of dried on thick preservative, under the preservative the engraving is good and the blue/brown finish is decent.
Wood is trash but is usable as is
Took it out to the trap range for a function check, ran 25 straight smoking the bird with the fixed full choke, apparently gun shoots right where I look.
Guess I'm going to order some new springs for it and strip it down for a good cleaning, I can see 60 years of crud in the receiver. I will probably keep an eye out for an appropriate wood set.
I love the way these guns shoot.
Did the deal as I was looking for a full choke solid rib barrel and took it home. Took it apart and the barrel and receiver serial number match. Started cleaning it and found all the metal was covered with some sort of dried on thick preservative, under the preservative the engraving is good and the blue/brown finish is decent.
Wood is trash but is usable as is
Took it out to the trap range for a function check, ran 25 straight smoking the bird with the fixed full choke, apparently gun shoots right where I look.
Guess I'm going to order some new springs for it and strip it down for a good cleaning, I can see 60 years of crud in the receiver. I will probably keep an eye out for an appropriate wood set.
I love the way these guns shoot.
I have plenty of high brass and magnum loads to waste.
