I didnt buy anything but here is a 1963 savage 24J-DL rifle/shotgun combination gun in 22 mag over 20 ga that i just got done semi restoring for a buddy, he got it from a friend of his that took it in on some trading and he didnt want it. Had the wrong stock on it, it was cracked and split with electrical tape wound around it and the receiver and had the wrong length stock bolt with about 7 or 8 multiple sized nuts as spacers. The stock bolt threads were pretty rough on the receiver, barrel had some places where the bluing was worn down and it needed a good cleaning. Got it all disassembled and started off by cleaning the receiver and barrel in a parts washer at work. The receiver was originally threaded for a 1/4-28 stock bolt but the threads were on the verge of being stripped so i ran a 1/4-20 tap through it and cleaned them up pretty good. Both bores on the barrel appeared to be in good shape just dirty, cleaned them with hoppes #9 and a copper brush followed by patches until they were clean. Both barrels are shiny and riffling in the 22 mag bore looked really good for the gun being made in 1963. The ejector for the 22 mag and 20 ga were a little sticky so i took them apart and cleaned to get them free’d up like butter. Once i got both bores clean i stripped off all the bluing and cold blued the barrel using birchwood casey cold blue then soaked it with gun oil for about 10 days. It was my first time ever cold bluing and pretty happy with my first time, there are some streaks you can see in the right light but not too noticeable. I cleaned the receiver and internals and used some silver enamel to touch up a few marks that were noticeable. I found him a new boyds stock for the savage model 24 on ebay and ordered it wondering how well it would fit. When i got the stock in i did have to do some fitting to match it up the best i could with the receiver, it doesnt fit 100% perfect with the receiver but i think it mates up to it pretty well. The boyd stock was already finished but the fore end didnt match at all, it was too dark and more red than the brown boyd stock, i sanded quite a bit on the fore end as much as i wanted to try and lighten the color. I initially put 5 coats of wipe on poly in clear satin on the fore end. Then i moved onto the stock, i had to stain the receiver end of the stock were i had sanded through the finish for fitting, i had some minwax oak colored stain that matched up pretty well, one the end was stained i put 4 coats of wipe on poly on the stock and my plan was to have been done, but once it dried the stock was still noticeably lighter than the fore end, so i mixed some of the oak colored stain with the wipe on poly and put two coats on the stock and one on the fore end. After it set for 24 hours the stock needed to be lightened up slightly to
atch the fore end. Once i got the colors pretty close i applied 2 more coats of the wipe on poly without the stain. After allowing about 4 days for the stock and fore end to cure i finally got it assembled back together. he was pretty happy with the end result.
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