Bag Jobs...always fun.

[The Saint]

Anyone else like a good Bag Job? You know...when you get a gun that's in a bag in parts long uncared for? A friend of mine gave me one, today...and playing puzzle on one of those was tonight's project. All the parts were there, as he told me they were when he got it 25 years ago...and what resulted is a pretty beat up but tight and still perfectly timed mirror-bored Herbert Schmidt "LA's Deputy" 22lr Colt Scout clone made in 1968. Not bad...3/4 of the time on this was spent scrubbing the oxidation off the parts...one more for the junk gun collection haha!

 

[python]

Nice job. You must have an abundant amount of patience and the mechanical skills to go with it. I have trouble getting the grips off a pistol to clean it. Enjoy.

 

[MeatGrinder]

Oh wow. That's really cool. Any sense of why it was taken apart in the first place?

 

[RFBfromDE]

Wait until Baltimore gives you $200 for it, then take your friend to lunch!

 

[antco]

Wait until Baltimore gives you $200 for it, then take your friend to lunch!

This man's a genius.

 

[The Saint]

Nice job. You must have an abundant amount of patience and the mechanical skills to go with it. I have trouble getting the grips off a pistol to clean it. Enjoy.

Ha! I'm certainly no whiz...from shooting black powder revolvers since forever; pulling single actions apart and putting them back together is almost thoughtless. A few weird things on this one that skip corners and save money...but overall nothing you need a diagram for. Sorting the screws by process of elimination and scrubbing oxidation was the hardest part, here.

Oh wow. That's really cool. Any sense of why it was taken apart in the first place?

My best guess is probably someone took it apart or he took it apart and probably didn't care enough to put it back together. The mainspring was blown and I rigged up it to go back together and hold strong haha! So mainspring was probably why it was originally disassembled.

Wait until Baltimore gives you $200 for it, then take your friend to lunch!

It's another reason why junk guns are never a bad investment. Change my mind about collecting em?...there's always a buyback that pays far more than they are worth just around the corner.

 

[Alphabrew]

I have a Colt Frontier Scout which looks similar. This was my first handgun, my dad gave it to me in middle school.

 

[RFBfromDE]

"Not till you're twelve, son!"

 

[MiddleRiverShootist]

Nice work!

 

[rseymorejr]

Looks better than it did yesterday afternoon!