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This will go over like a fart in church. As someone who lives in Blairstown I gotta say I honestly dont know a single household in town that doesn't have a gun. Firearms are a way of life out here.

I brought it over to a friend who is a real gunsmith and he borescoped it. There was no copper or any wear evident. The bolt head has no ring from primers and it doesn't appear to ever have a screw turned. It was his opinion that condition wise and all parts are savage and not swapped around his opinion is it was unissued. There aren't even scratch marks on the feed ramps.

I picked this up the other day and figured I would share. Unfortunately it is designated to be a safe queen because of its unissued condition. So here she is, not bad looking for being 70 years old. All parts are 100% Savage, hasn't been refurbed (FTR'd for the Enfield types)

I was at sarco yesterday and they had a couple on the shelf

congrats! now grease 'er up and give us a range report

your regular mosin will just end up sitting in the corner as you will be shooting your M39 all the time. The old saying is "the Russians made the Mosins, the Finns made them accurate"

Alright my regimen is a bit more involved than many others so here I go. I use only a 1pc rod with corresponding jag and brush, the jointed rods will wear your bore and the snakes dont do much. I do this cleaning about every 5 range trips. I get home and disassemble the gun completely. I go over to the deep sink and turn on the water and get it going as hot as i can stand it. Put some joy soap on the brush and start scrubbing the barrel. Flush with water and scrub again without soap. I normally do this a couple of times. Then get a old tooth brush and scrub the receiver with soap and do a detailed scrubbing. And yet again rinse with hot water. Go to the air compressor and blow everyting out nicely and patch out the barrel. I oil the receiver and outside of the barrel. Then follow up with some gunslick foaming bore cleaner, sometimes letting it sit over night. Wake up in the morning and patch out the dissolved copper and run an patch with ballistol down the bore. Clean all the small parts with Hoppes and reassemble the gun. When I oil I use an old school shaving brush and put some Ballistol on it (try it you'll love it). Just rub it into all the lettering and stamping and do a quick once over of the gun and follow up with a wipe down with a microfiber cloth. Before putting in the safe the gun will sit in a corner muzzle down on a few paper towels folded up to catch the excess oil from the bore. This avoids what is called oil rot, where oil impregnates and softens the wood of a stock. Look at an old gun and normally around the receiver tang the wood is a hair darker than the rest of the gun, that is oil rot. For normal cleaning between range trips I use Hoppes for cleaning and Balistol for preservation. All moving parts get either Mobil 1 synthetic or just plain old bearing grease. If it slides grease it, if it rotates oil it. And yes I said it, I clean my guns in the sink with water

Wow, I will call some family and see whats up there, my Grandpa is a lobsterman out of Bar Harbor and my Uncle has a lobster boat out of Bucksport. If you go up to Bucksport at all send me a PM, my family owns some interesting property with Indian carved murals of Captain Buck and depicts the story of his boats coming ashore.

You will find that old guns often shoot better than the newly manufactured ones. Modern guns are made with the motto of "how cheap can we make something but have it be reliable enough to not destroy our reputation." Hence the reason you are seeing more plastic on guns now, easier to injection mold a part rather than mill or stamp one out.

It comes down to stereotypes, I live in the north and live in the middle of nowhere. When I think of the south all I think of is episodes of Jersey Shore. It is all how you perceive things.

you can put the barreled receiver in the freezer if you got one big enough. It normally is enough for the barrel to shrink just a hair and it helps sometimes.

well what do you expect. they are hack jobs, every time i hear on the show "get it into paint" I cringe.... you dont paint guns! ugh friggin tactitard recruiters.

I mix the rit dye with alcohol in a water bottle. I coultn't even come close to telling you my ratio's because it is a "eh looks close enough" recipe. To make the finish look like it has been there for a long time do a full stain on the wood and let it dry, then buff with 0000 stell wool. The first coat of BLO I use steel wool to put it on. Wet the wool and scrub away and for the first coat I remove it almost right away after finished and let it sit for 24 hrs. After the first coat do another quick stain on the wood. This will give you an aged oil finish look. After the stain is dry (almost immediately since it is alcohol) follow up with another coat of BLO with steel wool. After that It is just a matter of applying once a day, let sit for half an hour and then wipe off the excess. I tend to get a little involved when oiling the stocks. The more you work it and massage it in the better it comes out. So I normally put a movie or music on and start oiling and working it up. Good luck and remember rags and steel wool that have BLO on them should be disposed of outside. BLO can spontaneously combust when drying so I take my rags and set them in the lawn over night, just to be safe. As for the TE, ME, and handguard pliars you are more than welcome to borrow mine.

for me MW i look for 2 or less. TE I go for 3.5 -4 or less. The throat is the heart of the barrel so it is the most important.

OMG Jon you have just said what a bunch of us have been talking about. With all this new stuff coming down the pipeline and important battles in our future, people are still obsessing with CCW. That fight is in our future, but now lets focus on what will directly effect all of us in the near future. Completely wrong time for a CCW battle, focus resources on other things.

Let it dry on its own away from any kind of heat source. I just let it sit in the basement for about 2 days. It normally takes two scrubs

TNW M3hb .50 is ordered.... ┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐ 18 week backlog though

for handguards I like to use CS glue that is available in hobby shops. I have fixed about 20 handguards that way and holds up good. There are members on here that actually have some of my fixed handguards on their guns and they couldn't find the cracks until i showed them. A little glue and wrap in surgical tubing and you are good to go.

Also if you are anywhere near north west jersey give me a shout and I'll walk you through it.

I recommend going to walmart and getting some dawn power dissolver, it is a dish soap in a spray bottle. Spray it on and scrub immediately with a soft scrub brush, and rinse. I keep scrubbing when i am rinsing. I use the hotest water out of my deep sink and it does a good job of removing dents and dings. Then sand the raised grain with no coarser than 220 grit sandpaper, and finsih with a steel wool rub down. For stain I like using Rit clothing dye. I think my mix is chocolate brown with some crimson. Mix it up with alcohol and it comes out nice. Then Use some boiled linseed oil. A coat a day for a week minimum, then top it off with some gunny paste and you're done. Remember GI wood is 10x better than repro wood any day.

shoot I'd shoot it in my backyard. There is a benefit of living in the middle of nowhere

I am soooooo on the fence about ordering a barret right now...... there is one in the shopping cart of a dealer right now.. AHHHH the descisions in life.

after shooting corrosive i mostly use dish soap and water from the sink. Scrub away and rinse good

also if shooting surplus you take a very good chance of contaminating the snake with the corrosive salts and possibly transferring them to another rifle. Brush and 1pc rod is the way to go.

I collect Tikkas and the early ones were stamped with A, B, or C which is the bore diameter. Your barrel was made after they stopped stamping them. It doesn't have the "d" stamp which means the throat wasn't opened up to handle the "D166" cartridge which is the common Russian surplus round. I honestly would not shoot standard surplus ammo out of it. Although it shouldnt do any damage, it will put a lot of wear on the throat of the rifling which is the heart of accuracy on a barrel. If it were mine, it would be handloads only with more than likely a .308 bullet. All my tikkas slug out to .308