Another junk project

[Snakebite]

I think this is a great story, but then again I'm a little quirky. I was baby sitting a smolt acclimation tank on the Siuslaw about 12 years ago, and my brother came over and camped out with me for a weekend so he could go fishing and use my drift boat. Well, there at the campground one afternoon My Brother decided to go water the flowers in the bushes, and while he was doing that, he realised he was peeing on a rifle. It turns out that he found a Savage 37E .22 semi auto. The stock was in five pieces but wrapped together with that old sticky cloth electricians tape. He let me have the gun, and after rinsing it off (he pee' on it) I took it apart. I literally had to pound on the bolt with a hammer to get it apart, but I managed get it loose, tear it down and put it back together. Tied it to a tree, and with a string about twenty feet long fired it. IT works!. The weird thing is that the barrel and rifling are immaculate, even though the outside of the gun is trashed!




All I've done so far is glue the stock back together because the magazine tube spring was missing, and I've not yet been able to find one. Until then, it's a single shot freebee gun that I won't waste time restoring. No serial number anywhere on the thing. They probably sold many thousands of these for less than $30 way back when. So, anybody know where I could look for a mag tube spring assembly?

[pythonwill]

I was gonna say E-gunparts.com but they only had a stock listed as available parts
http://www.e-gunparts.com/products.a...89Zz37&MC=

[baltz526]

i might have one that will work, if you measure it, i'll check the one i think i have. i'll look tonight

[boone]

You might try Brownell's on the web. I found a firing pin for an old 22 rifle I had from way back when.

[oregonoutdoors]

My dad has that same gun. It was his first gun. I hope it works out for you.

[myra]

if i were to find a gun in the woods i would take it to the cops to see if it was involved in a murder

[BrianMaguire]

if i were to find a gun in the woods i would take it to the cops to see if it was involved in a murder

No offense, but what good would that do? Say after the umpteen years the crime lab actually found time to compare the ballistics they found something. The only suspect is now you - yeah sure you found it. No good could come of that IMO.

[Ryan Pultz]

Ohh hey by the way nice socks rp

[Bugle4em]

if i were to find a gun in the woods i would take it to the cops to see if it was involved in a murder

I think only good could come from it. If it was a critical link in a murder case and a family member of mine were involved, I sure would hope if it was found it was given to the authorities. Maybe there isn't any evidence, but maybe there is. After all, at this point we are only speaking in hypotheticals. If after inspection the gun was cleared and could not be traced to anyone, then congrats for peeing on your new gun.

It seems alot easier to me to explain finding a gun and not touching it versus explaining months or years from now why your in possession of the gun and your fingerprints are all over it.

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