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drcook
PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:15 am  Reply with quote



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I am going to strip and redo the stock/fore end on the old 16ga Savage 755A that was my dad's. Other than chippies in the wood finish the gun is in great condition, showing little wear.

I took the buttplate off and inside was a piece of paper saying

Oct 21, 1953
From Shirley
To Jack
Happy Birthday

I have no idea who Shirley or Jack are, they are not family members. But now I know the history of the gun before my dad got it. It was Jack's and he got it for his birthday.

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Brewster11
PostPosted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:30 am  Reply with quote



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Nice discovery, thanks for the story. And it tugged some heartstrings too.

B.
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stubshaft
PostPosted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:52 pm  Reply with quote



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On most of my guns. I put the original bill of sale and Registration in the buttstock. I figure that my heirs may come across it someday or someone else down the line might find it.

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drcook
PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 6:23 am  Reply with quote



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I used to use Picturetrail to post pictures here, however, it shut down. What are folks using now ? Then I can post a picture of the note.

I am going to preserve it.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 6:58 am  Reply with quote



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drcook wrote:
I used to use Picturetrail to post pictures here, however, it shut down. What are folks using now ? Then I can post a picture of the note.

I am going to preserve it.


Postimages.org is super easy and requires no account.

Choose image. Upload it. Copy the link of “hyperlink for forum” and simply paste in here.
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fin2feather
PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 9:11 am  Reply with quote
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Very cool. My father's gun was also a 16ga Savage 775a. I recently gave it to my nephew; long story.

I've used Imgur since photobucket got weird; also very easy.

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drcook
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:01 pm  Reply with quote



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[URL=https://lunapic.com] [/URL]

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oneeyednine1029
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 3:46 pm  Reply with quote



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Very cool find indeed. The first thing I always do when I get a new gun home is look inside the butt stock. I've never found anything yet. I have a Savage 775A in 16 and I love it. By the way .....that wouldn't be a Starrett 440 depth micrometer on the left side of the picture would it ? I'm a machinist by trade , and it looks somewhat familiar...LOL....

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drcook
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:20 pm  Reply with quote



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oneeyednine1029 wrote:
Very cool find indeed. The first thing I always do when I get a new gun home is look inside the butt stock. I've never found anything yet. I have a Savage 775A in 16 and I love it. By the way .....that wouldn't be a Starrett 440 depth micrometer on the left side of the picture would it ? I'm a machinist by trade , and it looks somewhat familiar...LOL....


Well probably is. I was a tool maker/high precision machinist in my younger days before a hand surgery and future income potential ended that. I wrote software for most of my life. In the greater Akron Ohio area machinists weren't paid the best.

I miss working with the machines (sometimes). Because I was an artist at heart, I made things accurate and pretty ! Being a bit of a perfectionist, I could never use tolerances, so I learned how to make things perfect in the same amount of time most folks made things just ok. Saved a business a contract one time and got a whopping .25 an hour raise. BFD.

Do you know what a Hardinge Toolmakers Lathe is ? I once chased a 0000 thread for an instrument on one. No one thought I could do it Very Happy Rolling Eyes Very Happy

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Ted Schefelbein
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:51 pm  Reply with quote



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Did you put the note back in?

Seems like the right thing to do.

Best,
Ted

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drcook
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:59 pm  Reply with quote



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Ted Schefelbein wrote:
Did you put the note back in?

Seems like the right thing to do.

Best,
Ted


No. Its starting to deteriorate. In another 10 15 yrs it will be gone. I am going to laminate it and get it away from the oxygen or see about a small frame with conservatory glass and put it with my memorial stuff that I hand down to someone

but

I am going to make a copy and put that back in.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:46 pm  Reply with quote



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Dave , I'm a machinist by trade going on 30 some years now. Still got all 10 fingers too...LOL.... I've worked with tenths tolerances before. And chased more threads than I care to remember. I also like to make things better than they need to be. I always tell people , I make things like they're my own. Always take great care and hit "the number". Close enough isn't good enough for me. I did some work in mid Ohio with the last job I had. Mansfield area , small town called Congress and West Congress....good people. 0000 thread is almost microscopic...... WOW....I've tapped some 0-80 before. Good luck with your 775, I love mine though I really should shoot it more. I just have too many right now.....
https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/l633/oneeyednine1029/IMAG0267_zpsdd069018.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds

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drcook
PostPosted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:19 pm  Reply with quote



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I also have all 10, the operation was from a childhood injury to my wrist. I stopped working in shops 40 years ago. All the places I worked at are gone. The last shop I worked in was Goodyear Aerospace in the Defense Systems Division. I worked on lots of stuff including guidance systems for nukes.

I was involved in the buildup that eventually brought down the Soviet Union. I machined 98% of the tuning parts for the Pershing II nuclear missile amongst other stuff. There were a bunch of very talented people there back then. Some not so talented and hacks, some very talented, gifted machinists.

Back to the 755, the wood came out really nice. I am going to put in all new springs, a new brass friction ring and take it hunting. Maybe eventually I will have choke tubes put in, maybe, I have a stack of Ithaca 37 16ga guns that actually fill every niche.

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drcook
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This was the before

[URL=https://lunapic.com] [/URL]

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oneeyednine1029
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Thats a beaut....nice wood....sounds like fascinating work. Gun turned out awesome....I also have several guns for almost every niche.

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Savage Fox B model
1972 Reno double barrel
Mossberg model 190 bolt action
JC Higgins bolt action
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