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[Riverrat]

I have a friend in the shrine that has a 1914 savage arms hammer-less pump 22.  This gun was made from 1914 to 1924.  He has owned it since 1960 beautiful well cared for gun.  However the firing pin gave out years ago and he was ready to give up on finding a pin. I asked to see it and told him I thought I had one in the shop hiding in a piece of 4140 chrome molly steel.  That I bet I could find.  He gave me the old pin and I made a cad model of the pin and left excess material anywhere there was wear. (better to hand file the fit on a worn gun than make one identical to the one you have. You don't want to end up with  2 bad pins. I machined it out did a little filing here and there and it works perfectly.  now your all thinking nothing tough about a round firing pin. and that is what I thought until he brought the gun to me. Thats when things got interesting this part is only .100 thick and 2  inches long so it was small. Heres a  pic of the new one and the old. with old one on the top . As far as I can tell I am the only one who has the cad data to make these. I got a free meal out of him for the work.  I was more after the challenge of him saying it couldn't be done than I was the money

[LazyBkpr]

Yah buddy!  Thats what I am talkin bout right there!
   I loved doing things like that!  Well done!  The finishing touch would be to case harden it..  Mostly for the cool look it gives.  That pin will probably work perfectly for another 100 years. Nothing like saving a good old .22 from the scrap pile!


   I had a Maine Farmer bring me a pump .22 that was in unbelievably bad condition..  It looked like it had been laying around in a barn for about 20 years..   Turns out, it had been laying around in a barn for about 50 years.....
   The story was..  He was a boy, out shooting pigeons in the barn..  He heard tires squealing and a horrendous crash..  He stuffed the gun in the rafter and bailed out of the hay loft to find a neighbor had hit one of their cows, there was quite a to do with ambulances etc..   A few weeks later he went to go rabbit hunting and could not find the .22  Forgot he had stuffed it into the rafters completely...
   Fast forward 50 years...  This mans Grandson was out playing in the barn, and came running into the house with the gun in his hands..... He said in that blinding flash of a moment he REMEMBERED where he put the gun.  He did NOT care what it cost, he wanted to save the gun..
   I started by relining the bore and re chambering it. I made new stock and forearm from Iowa Walnut I had brought with me to Maine.. Several new parts had to be manufactured, and the entire thing was run through the bluing tanks..   I have pics of the gun, but do not have anything on the computer..  Like you.. I didnt charge much. I rebuilt that gun for the challenge and for the story.  I documented everything, took a lot of pictures and theres also a picture of myself and the owner in that documentation..  so I gained a bit of immortality.