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Greetings gentlemen!
Long time listener, first time caller here on the site.
I have here a brand new 1895 CBA shorty cowboy from my local corporate firearms buying facility. I purchased it based on feedback that the cowboys are a cut above the usual Remlin schlock and those advisories proved true.
That said, it needed some help, just like any rifle made after the Reagan administration (or FDR administration, more accurately, as I am a lover of fine blued steel and walnut).
Being a lazy man, I only took it down to a field strip situation and went to work according to the directions found here and elsewhere with 1200 grit wet/dry and a few fine stones to polish and smooth out the hard edges of our post industrial reality.
After spending an afternoon trying my best to make the action look and feel more akin to my prewar model 39 I set about to breaking the edges of the lever, trigger, hammer et al. and found the project to be a worthwhile labor, though in need of more work later when I could devote the time and headspace to dig deeper into guts of the machine.
Finding fault with the contrast between the polished barrel and the off the rack 336 reciever I decided to lightly touch it with the wet dry as well as taking the edge off the grain of the stock with the same abrasive. At some point this winter I will devote the weeks required to peel the marshield off the wood and perhaps even brown the receiver but, for now, I was content to Johnson paste wax the whole thing and call it good. Overall it feel good for a gun not made in the glorydays of American firearms craftsmanship.
This is to be my "subaru gun" as it is the closest to a truck I could manage and it dissapears well behind the cargo rubber in the back, wrapoed lovingly in old woolen hiking socks for protection.
Initial loads by way of a lee loader and a hammer are 405 cast from my neighbor, Maplewood bullets, over 2400 in Starline cases at around 1300 fps. They shoot to the sights and cut fearful large holes in the target.
If anyone is interested I am happy to expand on my journey as I go if you're contemplating a Remlin 1895 CBA with the 18.5" barrel.
Don't let your boits get too close to the fire.
Long time listener, first time caller here on the site.
I have here a brand new 1895 CBA shorty cowboy from my local corporate firearms buying facility. I purchased it based on feedback that the cowboys are a cut above the usual Remlin schlock and those advisories proved true.
That said, it needed some help, just like any rifle made after the Reagan administration (or FDR administration, more accurately, as I am a lover of fine blued steel and walnut).
Being a lazy man, I only took it down to a field strip situation and went to work according to the directions found here and elsewhere with 1200 grit wet/dry and a few fine stones to polish and smooth out the hard edges of our post industrial reality.
After spending an afternoon trying my best to make the action look and feel more akin to my prewar model 39 I set about to breaking the edges of the lever, trigger, hammer et al. and found the project to be a worthwhile labor, though in need of more work later when I could devote the time and headspace to dig deeper into guts of the machine.
Finding fault with the contrast between the polished barrel and the off the rack 336 reciever I decided to lightly touch it with the wet dry as well as taking the edge off the grain of the stock with the same abrasive. At some point this winter I will devote the weeks required to peel the marshield off the wood and perhaps even brown the receiver but, for now, I was content to Johnson paste wax the whole thing and call it good. Overall it feel good for a gun not made in the glorydays of American firearms craftsmanship.
This is to be my "subaru gun" as it is the closest to a truck I could manage and it dissapears well behind the cargo rubber in the back, wrapoed lovingly in old woolen hiking socks for protection.
Initial loads by way of a lee loader and a hammer are 405 cast from my neighbor, Maplewood bullets, over 2400 in Starline cases at around 1300 fps. They shoot to the sights and cut fearful large holes in the target.
If anyone is interested I am happy to expand on my journey as I go if you're contemplating a Remlin 1895 CBA with the 18.5" barrel.
Don't let your boits get too close to the fire.
