It looks like my wife and I will be moving in the next year or two. Mostly do to her looking for a new job, and there is not much at her level in a small town like this, and my health making going up stair and down more difficult. So, the last few weeks I have been on other tracks, and thinking about what to keep, what to move along, etc.
But! That should never stop us from doing projects
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I picked this up at auction, it is a late '30s German AYDT single shot varmint gun. A real oddity, as it has a very heavy bull barrel and is chambered in .218 Bee. I am pretty sure the barrel is original, as it had no standard provision for the peep sights that these normally came with, but it is chambered for an American cartridge. Now, a customer could order these any way they wanted, so I guess anything is possible. But in any case, I need to deal with rust issues, and clean out all the grease that was slathered on here.
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starting disassembly, and here you can really see the rust damage.
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I had a couple screws really fight me, but I won in the end
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the trigger assembly, and you can see how much grease there is to deal with
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parts ready for a mineral spirits bath, but I am out so I will pick some up tomorrow morning.
Man sorry to see you have to move, hope you find a good spot.
Nice old gun that.
Quote from: jabberwoki on May 12, 2026, 09:14 AMMan sorry to see you have to move, hope you find a good spot.
Nice old gun that.
Exactly, sorry to hear about the move and the gun looks cool.