Good to see you posting again, I hope you will share with us some pictures of that G&H marked Remington.
I'm still recovering from the whole photobucket fiasco. As soon as I get another solution for posting pictures I'll do so.
Been pretty busy here at the shop lately as well. The whole industry has been going through a change the last year and a half or so, and we have been busy with trying to adapt and get new products online.
I've got the little G&H cleaned up a little and it actually worked out pretty good. The 2 big chips in the stock are repaired. The uneven gap between the stock and receiver was due to a bent magazine tube which has been taken care of. I lightly rubbed the stock with rotten stone and oil to even it out and remove some of the grime and mildew that had taken up residence on it.
A couple interesting things about the rifle. The barrel is relatively heavy and 26" long. This seemed to me a little odd for what was originally meant to be a small lightweight rifle. Why would someone put a man sized stock and heavy barrel on a little light weight takedown. (although the takedown feature was omitted when it was rebarreled.
Secondly, when I was bending the magazine tube, I noticed that the stock also had some cast-on. I assumed that the magazine tube must have also been bent to the left, but when I straightened it out, the head of the stock no longer mated up with the back of the receiver, but rather contacted on the right side and had a small gap on the left. So I bent the tube back so that the stock and receiver headed up correctly and now we are back to about 1/4" of cast on for a right hand shooter, or cast-off for a lefty. My theory is that whoever commissioned it was a lefty and wanted a good quality repeating .22 that did not throw the brass in front of his face. Probably not to many choices for a lefty in 1932. The bottom eject of the little 24 does not discriminate.
It is also stocked very straight. I have a thin face but still have a hard time getting my head down to where I can look through the rear sight, yet there are no signs of the rifle ever having a scope.
More to come.
John
Oh, another thing. Does anyone know if the safety is reversible on these rifles? It has a button in the front of the trigger guard, but when pushed to the left with your trigger finger it puts it on safe. Opposite of what you would expect, and possibly more evidence of it being for a lefty?