First job on the Anschutz. The gods awful state of the stock. Being a super Match it was supplied with a target shooting stock.
It’s had a hard life, and someone has made some quite questionable modifications to it. The most heinous of which was to chop the butt hook down, what a total mess 🥺
I’m not too bothered about having one… But it needs sorting as it’s extremely annoying whilst shooting, the rather ugly corrosion digs nicely into the shoulder to be off putting.
Order of work so far. Stripped to its bare components.
The wood needs stripping, dents steaming out, completely worked over and relacquered.
The adjustable butt is in half decent nick, however the corrosion all over needs removing, the chopped butt hook dressed off to make it a lot more ergonomic and it’ll probably give the whole thing a smooth over with sanding and polish before being lacquered to protect it. The steel parts are getting the anti-rust treatment using citric acid and reblued where appropriately
Again, the cheek riser is not too bad, however the theme will continue. A bloody good clean up.
Finally the trigger and for end furniture just needs a bloody good clean up and fettle. Fettling is my middle name 🤪
So the products being used for clean up.
Citric acid – homebrew rust remover that you can shove down the drain when finished. Comes in granular form and is often sold as a limescale descaler (as above £1.99 a box) or cooking ingredient. Either will do.
Tetra Gun Blue. To restore that chemical blue colour to steel parts.
Hmmmmmmm….. Derusting in action 😍
