Deaf Smith
Member
Well at a pawn shop and there was this H&R 760 'Sahara'. It's a little .22 single shot 'blow back' (yes blow back as the bolt flys back upon firing with only the hammer spring and a ball indent in the bolt's cocking knob to stop it.)
It was there for $49 buckos. The proprietor had a set of cute Colt 1877 Thunders in .41 LC, and needed ammo. Lucky me I had picked up a 50 round box of that very ammo, Remington and 1/2 box of Winchester, at a estate sale for, get this, $6.
Yes the rifle cost me 6 dollars.
Went to the range. Gun functioned perfectly. Shorts and LRs fined fine. Good group at 20 yards but it shot 5 inch high and 2 inch right.
No problemo.
Went home and disassembled. Using a file I bought at another estate sale (1.5 bucks) I unscrewed the rear sight and filed it down by pressing the sight against the file as it laid flat. Used an old small triangle file to re-do the notch. Used 20 year old cold blue to reblue the sight.
Totally reassembled and using plastic hammer tapped the front sight to the right just a bit.
Well guess what/ Shoots dead on at 20 yards now.
Going to parents house tomorrow and dig up the old brass .22 tip off scope I know is laying around there! Yep, sharp shooters rifle for $6 bucks.
Now thing is, I don't see any serial number and from my research they didn't stamp any on them! No grid marks either.
When I disassembled the gun I noticed the simplicity and very thick steal parts. Should be very very few breakages!
So any of you guys have a 760?
Deaf
It was there for $49 buckos. The proprietor had a set of cute Colt 1877 Thunders in .41 LC, and needed ammo. Lucky me I had picked up a 50 round box of that very ammo, Remington and 1/2 box of Winchester, at a estate sale for, get this, $6.
Yes the rifle cost me 6 dollars.
Went to the range. Gun functioned perfectly. Shorts and LRs fined fine. Good group at 20 yards but it shot 5 inch high and 2 inch right.
No problemo.
Went home and disassembled. Using a file I bought at another estate sale (1.5 bucks) I unscrewed the rear sight and filed it down by pressing the sight against the file as it laid flat. Used an old small triangle file to re-do the notch. Used 20 year old cold blue to reblue the sight.
Totally reassembled and using plastic hammer tapped the front sight to the right just a bit.
Well guess what/ Shoots dead on at 20 yards now.
Going to parents house tomorrow and dig up the old brass .22 tip off scope I know is laying around there! Yep, sharp shooters rifle for $6 bucks.
Now thing is, I don't see any serial number and from my research they didn't stamp any on them! No grid marks either.
When I disassembled the gun I noticed the simplicity and very thick steal parts. Should be very very few breakages!
So any of you guys have a 760?
Deaf
