preynspray

Thanks for all the kind words guys,I am thinking REAL hard about a butterknife bolt handle and I still need to replace the front sight and rear with a ramp and peep.The sights are only secured now with epoxy and will be easy to heat and remove,It needs another coat of Guncoat and that will be when I do the sights...

.Finished....

It started as a Century Arms 5 for $70.00 PI "poor incomplete" purchase I

made before I knew what PI stood for :-) .

The stock was shattered and all I got was a 1955 Romanian barreled

action with no bayonet lug and a slight bend at the end of the barrel

that I suspect happened when whoever or whatever removed the bayonet lug.It had a

barrel obstruction and a coat of rust over the entire gun....The barrel

obstruction turned out to be a rolled up piece of paper the length of

the barrel and the rust was from no bluing what so ever..After I ran a

few patches through the barrel I was rewarded with what appears as a NEW

barrel...

So I cut it to 16 1/2 to get rid of the bent part and recrowned with a

carriage bolt and grinding compound.Draw filed the lath marks off the

barrel and action,and redid the front sight with a blade from a scrap of

metal.

I really like the mannlischer style stock so I ordered a stock from

Boyds along with a extra piece of walnut for the stock extension.

The front nose cap is a Yugo Mauser bayonet lug without the lug and the

barrel band that hides the splice came from the same rifle,The butt

plate is a flip flop glued to a piece of aluminum .So far I have 4 coats

of Lin-Speed oil on it and 6 more to go.I Painted the metal with

Dura-coat and The magazine and "Boltman" bolt came from my other Mosins

[Yes it headspaces just fine].Any it also shoots just fine in spite of

the short barrel,I use Czech hollow core ammo in it so as to keep my

shoulder in joint..And it DOES have a fireball!!!

I am sure I forgot some more steps that I did but I sure had fun

rebuilding what many would concider a "Dumpster" gun....

Thanks for Reading!

Keith

Thanks everyone for the replys and ideas and especially to roscoedoh who offered me some dye,

What I did was mix some black printers ink into it [i am a printer] and it seems to work just fine...

Anybody have any ideas on what I can use to color gray epoxy black?