Single shot rifle

[bmwrd0]

 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



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.


starting disassembly, and here you can really see the rust damage.



I had a couple screws really fight me, but I won in the end


the trigger assembly, and you can see how much grease there is to deal with


parts ready for a mineral spirits bath, but I am out so I will pick some up tomorrow morning.