Yesterday's Weapons Forums

I like my Gahendra so much, I scored a 577 Snider from IMA and am WAY happy with it!!! My greatest concern was unfounded - I was concerned the breech block would be incomplete - no firing pin, for example, but it's all there.

The stock is sound with no cracks or missing chunks - one big compression dent, but I figure that's small spuds. The breech block won't completely open - like there's a cleaning rod in there or something. Well, I ain't getting mean with it until it's soaked a couple days.

So off-a to Wally now for more spray paint remover & engine degreaser. Get the lock & breech block off & let them soak in gas a couple days.

First thing I got after I saw the box? Rubber gloves!

These are the "before" pics.

Happy in Nebr,

SW

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....Naj puška govori!....
.............deplorable typical "bitter clinger"....

Believe it or not, yak fat turns BLACK on your hands and is the very devil to get off. I wound up using straight acetone.

Got the breech block open - backed the firing pin out - it was stuck forward from solidified junk, crud & "stuff". Now to soak the action parts for a couple days while I'm at work.

I LIKES it!!! SW

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KEEEEWL !!!!

I thought about a snider myself

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It's 5 o'clock and it's watermelon time.....................
because you can't drink beer & load rockets - TXPete

This one looks as if he was just told where he'd end up

Congrats on the new to you rifle! Lookin forward to the "after " pix...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

Yuk! ... I mean yak! Kinda fugly. Cabelas sells yak burgers in their cafe but I've never been brave enough to try one. I'll stick to kow. SW

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Seeing that pic, I haven't had kow tongue for a boo koo bunch of years.

Rad

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cool , be sure and post the after photos - i need one of these me thinks

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....Naj puška govori!....
.............deplorable typical "bitter clinger"....

I did not too long ago YUM!!!

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It's 5 o'clock and it's watermelon time.....................
because you can't drink beer & load rockets - TXPete

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....Naj puška govori!....
.............deplorable typical "bitter clinger"....

Biftek brain comes highly under-rated- especially as good head cheese. Preferred it over pork head cheese myself. Like everything else, it's gotta be done right, though. With the recent BSE scares, and other spongiform related illnesses- not really a good idea these days. A definite risk...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

Brains-n-eggs? Sounds like scrapple to me = NASTY!! And people think I'm nutz when I say I like fried bull 'nads.

I had the Snider lock & breechblock parts soaking while I was away playing trains - I'll get them spiffed up in the AM and try some spray paint remover on the stock. I looted more rubber gloves from 1st aid kits & am ready for all the corruption to come off the stock... and not onto me.

I got everything off but the brass buttplate - couldn't see boogering the screws so I'll just spray it with engine de-greaser.

More pics when I get it put back together. Should have brass, dies & a bullet mould this week. SW

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Brains-n-eggs? Sounds like scrapple to me = NASTY!! And people think I'm nutz


first - this sounds about as enjoyable as wood ticks in yer beard or leaches in yer nether regions ,

second - i never thought it , but i might have if youd been in favor of this dish

Halfway there!! Being compulsive, I cleaned it just enough to shoot as described in the BPCR reloading forum.

So when I took it clear apart for cleaning, I hosed the stock down with Easy-off oven cleaner ( blue can) again and got the majority of the yak fat & grease off.

I'm going to leave well enough alone & steam the two bigger dents near the lock - wipe it down with min-wax a few times & hand rub with BLO until the pores of the wood fill.

And shoot it! It might be a bit, but I'll post pics of the finished rifle.

Forgot to mention I really wanted the buttplate off but the screw slots were pretty well obliterated. Like I couldn't get any screwdriver I have to turn a screw. So I used the biggest cut off wheel I have for my Dremel and carefully deepened the slots so I could use a substantial screw driver.

Twisted in just a bit - then twisted out... added a little liquid soap into the gap. Did the in & out bit until the screws backed completely out. Ta-daaaaaa!

I also scored a can of Brasso & will use a felt bob on the Dremel tool to polish the brass. Man, the military memories sure flooded back when I took a whiff of the Brasso! Boot camp all over again!

What a cool old rifle!!! SW

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Amazing work. Amazing old guns. Glad someone can do it. riceone

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certainly amazing what a bit of elbow grease and cutting agents can do to improve the looks of one of these

...to get a compliment like that from the infamous riceone is a true testament to your restoration work...attaboy..

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....Naj puška govori!....
.............deplorable typical "bitter clinger"....