Ian
Notorious member
Got it back together, minus quite a bit of crusty, 100 year old grunge that had been ignored by the last few people to take it apart. I can now say with authority that the action and most of the barrel had been cold-blued. The lever still has some vestiges of color case-hardened finish on the curved part that goes up inside the action. I sweated on the front sight base....backwards. Oops. Next time I should wear my reading glasses. It's coming off again anyway so no big deal.
The buttstock has the correct SN, as does the butt plate (hand scratched on the butt plate), but it's broken in three places and been super-glued together. Couldn't find the SN for the forearm, but it looks to have been cut from the same piece of wood as the back. The wood was just finished-over with some kind of varnish, the original finish wasn't even stripped. At least the barrel channel in the forearm wasn't gooped up with over-run.
One more thing, the stock bolt was 5" overall length. I didn't write it down so I'm posting it here while I'm thinking about it, will be necessary to know when ordering a new stock.
The buttstock has the correct SN, as does the butt plate (hand scratched on the butt plate), but it's broken in three places and been super-glued together. Couldn't find the SN for the forearm, but it looks to have been cut from the same piece of wood as the back. The wood was just finished-over with some kind of varnish, the original finish wasn't even stripped. At least the barrel channel in the forearm wasn't gooped up with over-run.
One more thing, the stock bolt was 5" overall length. I didn't write it down so I'm posting it here while I'm thinking about it, will be necessary to know when ordering a new stock.