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Unread 07-22-2017, 10:28 AM   #51
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It must be Parker people turn to the small bore guns in the dead of summer. I bought a nearly new (99%) model 63 yesterday. Grooved receiver. I had a Weaver B4 with correct mount all set and it sure is a cutie. Out of 5 standing offhand shots, I managed to hit the paper once. Darned barrel must be bent.
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Thought I would bring this back up rather then start a new post. Picked up Remington model 12 B Gallery Special. Very nice exterior condition , but the bore is a little rough. Took it apart and started cleaning things up today. Bought a 100 rounds and of shorts and will shoot it next week. Made in 1913
Any recommendations on 22 bore cleaning?
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Very nice looking Remington Gallery Special. I don't think there are very many around that look as good as yours.

As for cleaning, I would just use the standard .22 caliber phosphor bronze brush, some Hoppe's #9 and follow up with a lightly oiled patch.

Then shoot it with some Shorts to see how the old girl does. It still might shoot fairly well despite the poor bore. If not, you still have a neat looking Remington Gallery Special that I'm sure Remington 22 collectors would really like to have.

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I was fortunate to find it right after it came in and was purchased.
Edgar I think you are right. I purchased 3 22's this summer. A model 90 in Long rifle kind of a Frankingun. With a 06 frame. Bore is excellent. Shoots great. Also a single shot model 67. Excellent condition. Sounds like you found a great 63.
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My 63 was bought late in life, about 25 years ago, because they were so overpriced when I was a young one. I paid $168.00 for my mint 63 at a local auction because it had a bunch of holes drilled for a side mount. It now has a Weaver N mount in those holes with a 3/4" Redfield, the neatest little .22 scope of high quality. I have had more fun with that little rifle and it has always worked flawlessly. Of course, I have other .22s, an early custom M22, an outrageous custom octagon single caliber Model 61 built in the thirties by John Oberlies of Dayton, a minty 1948 heavy barrel Model 52B with all the bells and whistles to shoot in competition, which I will never do. I often wonder whether the Shooting Gallery raffled at the early NRA Collectors show was the same one that is on display at the National Firearms Museum. Does anyone know if they are one and the same? If not, who won the raffle?
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This is the new 63, and I do mean new. I also have a first year, with the 20" barrel, and tang site, but it has extra holes on the side of the receiver.

Somewhere I have a set of 7/8" Stith rings for the grooved receiver, and will put an Alaskan on it.
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Thanks for sharing Edgar what a beautiful rifle.
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The 63's seem to be very popular these days and are crazy expensive. They sure are nice rifles though. Classic vintage Winchester quality and from what I hear from a friend who has bought each of his grandsons one, they shoot straight. My favorite .22's these days are 1) a vintage Marlin mod 1892, I think it is, lever gun with a replacement eary mod 39 hex barrel and a Marbles tang sight, and 2) a vintage Savage mod. 29 pump gun with a long hex bbl and a target grade receiver sight. Both shoot v straight and get used regularly to educate my resident marauding red squirrels. I also have a 70's vintage Marlin mod 39A Mountie that I put a Bushnell AR .22 scope on and which shoots crazy accurate at 100yds. That one would be a great gun to try on prairie dogs out to 200yds, something I wouldn't try with any other .22 I have. I have a very nice Winchester mod 62A that I have beheaded a lot of spruce grouse with and really like but haven't shot it in a long time. Here's a pic of the old Marlin levergun. It's the perfect .22 in size and heft and works smooth as butter as old Marlins do. Interestingly, the tang was already drilled when I got it and the Marbles sight bolted right up. Due to a machining feature in the bolt, these will only handle standard velocity ammo.
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Edgar has a nice little Savage he might post pictures of.





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