On the topic of doing up old .22's....

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Yeah, it feeds OK. Not often used however.

I've just been doing up an old Sportco repeater for a mate. He paid $50 for it - rifle, 4x40 Nykron scope and a set of mounts and some ammo. Rifle was a typical old well used .22. Stock had a worn, flat sort of varnish finish on it. Barrel bluing mostly gone, with shallow pitting and a bit of fine rust "fur" here and there. Wish I'd taken a pic of the before.

I've stripped the stock back, got rid of all the marks and given it a very light jarrah tinge and finished with 50/50 BLO-turps mix. The stock has come up pretty good.

Gave the barrel a rubdown with a fine scouring pad to clean the fine rust off, degreased and then coated with Birchwood Casey cold blue. It came up quite good I think.

Pics when it's all back together.