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[grumpy638]

I'm the cotton swab guy me and my friend lanyard Lew set up at the shows will be at fernwood this weekend

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[Aragorn243]

I'm the cotton swab guy me and my friend lanyard Lew set up at the shows will be at fernwood this weekend

I don't expect I'll be at any shows for a while. I don't go to many and I'm out of gun money right now. I usually hit Harrisburg. Just made my first trips to Gettysburg, Fair Oaks and Reading. I've been to Lebanon before and did like that one but I don't know if I'll head up in a few weeks or not. I don't want to upset the wife too much. She's been pretty patient with me so far. I need to save for a Garand.

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At one time I had three and all were different colors. On one the but stock was one inch shorter. If thats poly on the stock it will be hard to remove without taking of the finish under it also. roy

It isn't poly, that much I can tell. It's also very old, been on there a long time as you can tell where the wood shrank along the butt joint, the finish at one time met. It's like matching sides of a puzzle piece and the gap wasn't wide when it was applied, probably wasn't a gap in all sections by appearances..

I opened it up today. It is marked FAT on the barrel so it's a Terni assembled rifle, an early "B" series so about the 11,000's produced if the numbering holds true which no one seems to know. Was some minor pitting on the base of the receiver so it's seen some use. Interior of the stock is unfinished best I can tell, doesn't look as if it had been dipped in oil. Found one small "S" on the receiver tang and the two PB's I mentioned on the bolt. Cleaned the dust out of the barrel end and that's all that was in there. Bore very clean otherwise. Two patches and it was clean.