Here's the Free Spirit I've been riding for about 3 weeks:
and here's the current condition of the new Murray:
here's an old 1895 Stevens 12gauge double I had to remachine pretty much everything internally for the hammer/sear interface, but I left the patina and woodwork 100% original. Coolest part was a handwritten note inside the stock dated 1937, where a man instructed that he wanted the *** passed down to his grandson. I got it from a guy who purchased it at a yard sale, got it back to functioning condition, then hung it on my wall for a year before I got an offer I couldn't refuse for it.
this one is a Mossberg 151M, dated approximately 1946, a buddy's grandpa purchased it new, he traded it to me for a Spanish .32acp ******, and I cleaned all sorts of crud out of the action, plinked with it a few times and then traded it for a different .22 that my kids could hold up easier.
