How to revitalized this old gun

[Honky Lips]

Helping a guy clean out a lien two and found this over under 22:410 shotgun.

Address and cleaning and oil I think I got it functioning. Now I just need some 410 shells which are impossible to find

The outside of it is in rough shape though. What should I do with it? Wire wheel it then gun blue? Wire wheel spray paint it? Leave it as is because nothing else is going to help?

 

[Texas97]

pull the stock and wood, then do electrolysis to remove all the rust. then re-evaluate.

 

[Clb]

Stevens 410/22
I'll toss up a pic if I can find it...
Brb
Well my media storage aint workin right now.
So I'll snap a pic of the engravings on mine later.
With the 3" shells its a " it flies it dies " go to on the ranch...

 

[Aisin]

Nice. My grandpa had one of those. As for .410 not being available you aren’t looking hard enough. The problem is slugs start out at $1.30 per round.

 

[Lee]

I've got an uncle that collects the Savage 24, he claims to have at least 1 of every caliber combo they made. Last time I saw his collection he had over 20 of them.

So there are folks out there that are really into them.

 

[Pony_Driver]

Steel wool it and oil it. Blue it if you must.

 

[Honky Lips]

So we are going full retard resto. The boy is really liking the process.

 

[Aisin]

Awesome

 

[TrikeKid]

I would look into rust bluing it like the factory would have if you're restoring it.

Probably could've carded what was there back to being acceptable but you're past that point now that it's in that tank.

 

[Honky Lips]

I would look into rust bluing it like the factory would have if you're restoring it.

Probably could've carded what was there back to being acceptable but you're past that point now that it's in that tank.

Part of its just for fun and learning for my boy.

 

[Honky Lips]

We have 2 coats of tru oil applied. And got the barrel blued. Probably do 6 coats of oil before we wax it.

 

[Leadfoot21]

Hoppes #7 will blow your mind at removing rust on a gun . I brought a model 94 like that back to life that had been behind a truck seat in a chore truck for 30 years with nothing more than some hoppes 7 steel wool , paper towels and some rem oil to finish .

 

[Honky Lips]

Hoppes #7 will blow your mind at removing rust on a gun . I brought a model 94 like that back to life that had been behind a truck seat in a chore truck for 30 years with nothing more than some hoppes 7 steel wool , paper towels and some rem oil to finish .

This one was a little far gone for that results from the electralasys tote

 

[Clb]

Now that yer almost done...

 

[Honky Lips]

Now that yer almost done...

That’s fancy. My buddy does laser stuff on guns and anything else’s. Amazing what they can do

 

[Clb]

Yep
the old guy did this via old school engraver
look into the rear ramp sight system, mine sux...

 

[ridenby]

sweet gun op

 

[Honky Lips]

All put together and ready to test out next weekend.

 

[[486]]

little late
but whenever you see something that's blued with rust disregard everything else; boiling water to convert the red oxide to black oxide, then steel wool to card it back

 

[Notstock]

The Birchwood Casey tru oil finish works best out of anything I have used. I have been sanding to 800 grit with the last ones I did, seem to finish up nice that way.

 

[DavidVanVorous]

The Birchwood Casey tru oil finish works best out of anything I have used. I have been sanding to 800 grit with the last ones I did, seem to finish up nice that way.

Old and new...TML is my 20 yr project, needs barrel browning. "Modern" is my Yugo I did this last summer.
Both are nothing more than boiled linseed roughly 20 coats and "massaged", then buff with steel wool every 5 coats for a total of 20ish.
TML is an old school finish to bring out the curl via homemade iron nitride (steel wool dissolved in 50% nitric acid)
Modern is BLO directly on both a Fore cap made of birds eye maple and stock is a cheesy piece of walnut from Brownells with no stain.