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.

[jabberwoki]

Man sorry to see you have to move, hope you find a good spot.
Nice old gun that.

[Uncle Buck]

Man 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.

[bmwrd0]

Thank  you guys!

Further disassembly and cleaning of what I am now calling Project 218.


spent a little time getting the safely back in working order.


While letting some screws soak, I started cleaning up the stock. This has some very Germanic lines too it, no?

look at that hand cut checkering! This is the work of a master craftsman.

The final parts came apart fairly easily, but one screw refused to budge, and the slot was starting to get deformed, so I had to step up my plan of attack.

I started with a #35 bit, slowly stepped up until I was just shy of the diameter of the screw head, which you can just see at the tip of the bit.

This left just enough

to unscrew with the aid of a pair of ViseGrips. After that, the old scope mount came right off. And, oddly enough, the mount was an early Redfield, and while there were some few screw holes underneath, I need to see if any match European style mounts. I am pretty sure that the barrel is original, and with no provision for any other sights this rifle is becoming more and more of a mystery.

Next up is to make a new extractor, and the parts to do so should arrive on Monday from McMaster-Carr.