M-10 Commercial

[flying pig]

Originally posted this at CGN, thought I would share it here as well.

Having an awesome day today. My wife shows up at work at lunch with a rifle shaped box...

I've been looking for a M-10 commercial sporter for close to two years. In that time I've seen a few nice ones with a steep tag, a few non original ones with price tags around where they should be but advertised as originals and one that saw Bubba's ideologies heavily at work, still asked close to $500 for it. So I waited and kept looking and looking. I even put an add in our local bargain hunter (which produced Fugly). But as we all know, when it rains it pours, and a bit of research helps! The listing at Epps said it was a R-10 sporter, in .280 Ross. Knowing that the R-10 doesn't come in .280, I asked for pictures. Bingo. Nice looking M-10 that doesn't look overly beat to death and with a nice price tag to boot.

Only things I have noticed that are less than 100% perfect is that the rear swivel has been whacked at some time and the surface of the stock has a bit of a damage bubble there, a couple scrapes on the bluing, and it looks like someone has touched the bluing up at some time (few tiny little pin prick pits that have been blued, and one small ding on the barrel that has been touched up) otherwise I think its original. What do you experts think?

And the big one: mirror bore, nice sharp rifling and no darkening in the grooves.















Sorry about the pictures guys, our good camera lens died so no good close ups, and the weather was bad. Not much can be done about that! Bluing in that last pic looks shallow, but its nice and even and rich just like the rest. Tried to show the areas I was wondering about as much as I could.

Very very excited about this one!

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