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    There's no skilled gun smiths anywhere near here so really theres nothing i can do about it. So I'll just leave her as is.
    It's a nice rifle, (now) and i'm happy with it. Just thought i'd suss out what was involved.
    Thanks everyone for your advice.

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    Thats her after i removed a thick layer of black crap off every part. I didn't take any before shots unfortunatly. Picture a rusty look black rifle and thats what it was. Couldnt even cycle the bolt on it when i got it because there was so much junk in the receiver. The barrel is minty and shines luckily.

    Thanks to Demo i got the missing king screw for it, just need a new extractor spring now and she'll be right for a shoot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    Can we assume from that Rowdy that there is sufficient internal meat within the standard backsight bed to alllow it to be reamed oversize to H barrel size?
    Yes peter, they usually ream out nicely.

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