A day in the shop with the King.
There was a small crack in the forend, that has been repaired, it was just a hairline one but it bothered me.
I have removed the front sight hood that covered the barrel and the sight. This was held in place using a front sight screw with a head. I made a new headless front sight screw and installed that. There is a little scratching from the hood but the rest of the barrel has all the original rust blue.
I removed the scope and mount. The holes are not bad and there are no extra holes or grinding marks. I put filler screws into the scope holes. I will take the advice that I leave the holes alone and may mount something like a Noske or Unertl Hawk to shoot the rifle from rest with. Sorry folks IMO the Weaver 330 is junk and the booster just makes it junk magnified.
I robbed a Lyman 48 slide from another rifle and installed that until I can locate one for the King.
I removed the trigger over travel screw.
I disassembled the bolt, and polished the bolt, extractor and extractor collar more along the lines of a NM.
I cleaned and oiled the stock, I’m not sure if the sling swivels are original to the rifle or not but will leave them alone for now.
Pictures later tonight or tomorrow.
