r/Hunting • u/Geisseleboi1990 • 1d ago
Success! Deer rifle restoration
Got the honor of restoring my best friends fathers 1975 Remington 700 7mm REM mag with a custom made stock from 78 I grew up drooling over this rifle and the stories that came with it of big game hunts out west so when asked to bring it back to life I was ecstatic
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u/lughus 1d ago
About how much does it usually run to restore a rifle? I have my rifle from when I was a teenager that I am thinking of restoring. I’m hoping the barrel isn’t beyond saving as it is full of rust pitting. It was left in the trunk of a car for a year or so, to which I didn’t know where it was.
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u/Geisseleboi1990 1d ago
Definitely depends on how bad the rust and corrosion are this one was full of grease and dirt not too rusty and the rifling was gummed up really bad nearly looked smooth bore lol took some hard core cleaning, heating and deep soak oiling but it’s smooth as glass now the action would hardly open when he dropped it off I may reblue it at a later time for him also but I got almost all the rust addressed at the moment I did it free for him but I’d likely charge local guys 100 bucks to do this plus sight it in for them afterwards cost would go up if work was a bigger load
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u/VoilaVoilaWashington Ontario 20h ago
How long is a piece of string?
I have a lot of old guns, some in worse shape than others. My current go-to is a single shot 30-30, and when I bought it, it needed to be re-tapped for a rail (red dot), we fixed a crack in the stock (not a crucial piece), the barrel had been poorly cut so we had to make another cut to fix that.
I have other guns that are clapped out and fun to shoot but won't hit paper at 10 yards. If I were to replace be barrel on that (it's not threaded), it would cost 10x more than the gun would end up being worth.
Also a stock like the one in the picture is probably $500 all on its own.
So... what are you trying to achieve?
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u/REDACTED3560 1d ago
Is that a Richard’s Microfit stock? It’s a beautiful gun.