You don't have to saw the bbl. off!!

When i was a kid you could buy army surplus rifles for about $5.00 out of a big wooden bbl. in a gunshop near us. All of them had a lot of muzzle damage, but my dad bought a few anyway. He didn't think is was worth the extra $$ to buy one that looked better so.... (i doubt he had the extra money anyway)

Anyway, once he got them home, he chucked up a drill bit just bigger than the bore, and with a hand drill he drilled down into the end of the bbl. Once he cleaned out all of the "bad spot", he'd take it out and shoot it. All but one shot really good right then, and the one that didn't, he drilled a bit more, and it also shot well too!!!

Looking at the gun you'd not notice what he did, but it was a very cheap fix and we right then had a few deer rifles for CHEAP!!! It was an inexpensive way for dad to get rifles for his "6 kids" without haveing to worry about us damageing them!

I shot my first deer with a $6.00 7.62 Russian rifle when i was about 13 ??, it was a really nice 8 point buck!! I shot my second deer with the same rifle a couple days later....

Drilling Man