Now that the rifle is back together and home with its owner, I thought I'd post a pic and talk a bit about what I did to it. First off I wasn't that familiar with Savage 110 rifles when I offered to help with this one. When it came to me, it was already the second day of elk season and he was just now dealing with changing the scope. Since he was already someone I knew, I loaned him my M70 Winchester and a box of my best hand loads and sent him on his way. Thinking I would have it done by the end of elk season.
Originally I thought one of the trigger guard screws was stripped out but on this rifle that was the hole for the rear action screw and it was missing. To make things worse, the front action screw was one for a plastic stock not a wooden one. All the usual places I buy gun bits were out of these screws. I managed to find a pare of stainless ones on fleabay so I nabbed them 12 bucks. A member here graciously donated a steel trigger guard so the project was on...
The bluing was gone on most of the barrel and it was beginning to rust between the stock and barrel. I cleaned up the rust then wiped down the barrel with paper towels and acetone. I didn't have approval to spend more than the cost of the screws so I sprayed the barrel with molybdenum lube then went over it with a heat gun. This gave it a good looking (if not permanent) finish to protect it from rusting.
I was getting ready to button it up when I discovered it had about 1/8th inch of slop in the bedding. So I used 5 minute Gorilla epoxy to glass bed it in. I also before I did the job, I epoxied in a nylon bushing between the stock and the action and ground it down to clear the trigger group with a die grinder. The bushing was about .003" proud of the stock after I sanded it down to the shape of the underside of the action.
I used a set of Weaver stepped rings to mound the new scope and the project was done.
This is a bit long winded for about an hour and a half of real work. All the other effort was gathering the stuff up to do the job...
I'm having problems with the pic but I'll have it up soon...
Tony
