Usually on the 31st Dec, or at least around that date, I give the guns a birthday. Today was that day.
It kinda happens in batches over a few days but actions are removed from stocks, scopes removed to assess mount screw threads and woodwork gently palm fed some boiled linseed oil. As ever, the foot rest and living room seems the best place to do this. It is not like it isn't already enough of a tip in there.
One of the rifles has possibly swelled ever so slightly in the forend as there is the tiniest bit of resistance for half an inch of so when a thick piece of paper is passed around the barrel and down the stock channel. So some sand paper wrapped around a piece of dowel and a quick scrub to relieve that before applying some oil there as well
Offered it back up and problem gone. Good.
Gave the whole thing a good feed of BLO and it's now hanging from the beam. By the morning it will have eaten the oil and will be glistening with pride as the 2024 sun pours through the window. If there is sun. If it really has soaked it all up with barely any residue left, I will give it another coat but one application tends to be fine.
Put the .222rem back together and thought I would go for a walk over the fields to put a bullet in a target to make sure the mounts had returned to zero ok. Brother in law has left a trailer in the boggy field, so fortunately I had a nice dry place to get a decent rest. Lined it up, bang. Yep, that will work. S&L slide and lock mounts are bloody awesome.
As I hate reloading and therefore wasting bullets, that was enough ****ing around on paper, so I went for a trek up the hills to sit out for a muntjac and the possibility of a late afternoon fox as numbers now seem to be on the increase again since the badger cull.
It's a nice view with winter colours spread in to the distance.
Sat there for an hour getting chilly. Not much about apart from non muntjac deer. Typical. Take a shotgun, you see Muntjac aplenty. Take a rifle, the sky is awash with birds, take a deer rifle, rabbits everywhere. We all know the score.
Anyway, the roe and fallow will keep for next week and the roe at least was skylined which was a small blessing I suppose. Fallow were 485yds away but got a semi decent pic through the scope.
Just about to head back to the yard and a fox appears from the hedge at the bottom of the field. I'd already ranged the hedge from my position at 245yds, so dialled a quick 0.7mils and it just sat there broadside looking at something on the ground. That one will not be seeing 2024.
Happy new year to you all. Fingers crossed it is a good one.
It kinda happens in batches over a few days but actions are removed from stocks, scopes removed to assess mount screw threads and woodwork gently palm fed some boiled linseed oil. As ever, the foot rest and living room seems the best place to do this. It is not like it isn't already enough of a tip in there.
One of the rifles has possibly swelled ever so slightly in the forend as there is the tiniest bit of resistance for half an inch of so when a thick piece of paper is passed around the barrel and down the stock channel. So some sand paper wrapped around a piece of dowel and a quick scrub to relieve that before applying some oil there as well
Offered it back up and problem gone. Good.
Gave the whole thing a good feed of BLO and it's now hanging from the beam. By the morning it will have eaten the oil and will be glistening with pride as the 2024 sun pours through the window. If there is sun. If it really has soaked it all up with barely any residue left, I will give it another coat but one application tends to be fine.
Put the .222rem back together and thought I would go for a walk over the fields to put a bullet in a target to make sure the mounts had returned to zero ok. Brother in law has left a trailer in the boggy field, so fortunately I had a nice dry place to get a decent rest. Lined it up, bang. Yep, that will work. S&L slide and lock mounts are bloody awesome.
As I hate reloading and therefore wasting bullets, that was enough ****ing around on paper, so I went for a trek up the hills to sit out for a muntjac and the possibility of a late afternoon fox as numbers now seem to be on the increase again since the badger cull.
It's a nice view with winter colours spread in to the distance.
Sat there for an hour getting chilly. Not much about apart from non muntjac deer. Typical. Take a shotgun, you see Muntjac aplenty. Take a rifle, the sky is awash with birds, take a deer rifle, rabbits everywhere. We all know the score.
Anyway, the roe and fallow will keep for next week and the roe at least was skylined which was a small blessing I suppose. Fallow were 485yds away but got a semi decent pic through the scope.
Just about to head back to the yard and a fox appears from the hedge at the bottom of the field. I'd already ranged the hedge from my position at 245yds, so dialled a quick 0.7mils and it just sat there broadside looking at something on the ground. That one will not be seeing 2024.
Happy new year to you all. Fingers crossed it is a good one.
