Yugo 24/47 restoration

[Aragorn243]

Remember these?



Mike got them a few weeks ago after a gun show. I met up with him in Scranton and picked one of them out, not sure which from the above photo but suspect it's the one on top of the pile middle left. Made a rookie mistake and grabbed a nice looking one that was in an M48 stock without thinking. Missing the handguard and some of the metal stock bits I figured I'd make a shooter out of it and would keep an eye out for a hand guard and the metal bits in the meantime.

A complete 24/47 stock showed up the other day on ebay, not in the military category which is probably why it didn't get noticed but I was able to snag it for $37. Wasn't supposed to come until Thursday and I figured I'd need to do a deep cleaning on it but when it arrived today, I figured I'd just do a wipe down and see what it looked like. Not too bad. Stock has no major dings, hand guard matches stock, quite a few letter stamps and a few small cartouches that didn't show up in the photos. The barreled action was in pretty decent shape. Finish rough in spots and some active rust in a few places but cleaned up well.

So thanks Mike, this came out really nice.





















Stock looks a little dull now but with a few fresh coats of oil should get a nice glow to it.

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