A Go-Get-Dinner rifle from the Great Depression.

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Found this little gem in a LGS and rescued it... was filthy as a dirt road, and the firing pin was broke.
Drilled out the stub of the firing pin and replaced it with a sawed off hex key. Oiled the action, which is in good shape.
Stripped the stock and was gonna put a few coats of linseed oil on it... decided to stop with a single rubbed coat.
Might put a little gunstock wax on it later.

Anyway, here she is, the Sears Ranger M34 Single Shot, made by Marlin in 1935.

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The left side looks much the same, except there are some stains from sitting the butt plate in the wet grass a few decades ago.
It's good enough lookin' fer me own self, anyways.
I haven't shot it yet, being dark and cold outside... mebbe tomorrow, especially if'n squirrels show.
I believe the firing pin broke about halfway through this 82 yr old rifle's life,
and that's why the bore looks brand new, and the bolt works like it was made yesterday.
Instead o' fixin' it, somebody just put it away for a few decades, until I came across it.
 
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Oh that's a beaut mate. I love those good old game-getters.

Nice job with the refurbishment, looks like it came off the shelf not too long ago.
 
Pretty cool. I have a Ranger bolt action .410 that looks similar. It was a detachable box magazine, and a lot of fun to shoot.
 
I've got an old Ranger! I had to pick up a magazine for it and stuck in the safe. Never shot it. Might have to drag it out and put a few rounds dow range with it!
 
NCLivingBrit said:
Oh that's a beaut mate. I love those good old game-getters.

Nice job with the refurbishment, looks like it came off the shelf not too long ago.
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Thank you very much! Fortunately, nobody dinged the stock in 82 years.
 
Scott88 said:
Pretty cool. I have a Ranger bolt action .410 that looks similar. It was a detachable box magazine, and a lot of fun to shoot.
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Thanks! I'd love to get another Ranger that looks like this'n... a friend of mine has a set of Iver Johnson singles in 16ga, 20ga, 28ga & 12ga.
 
Hammer21b said:
I've got an old Ranger! I had to pick up a magazine for it and stuck in the safe. Never shot it. Might have to drag it out and put a few rounds dow range with it!
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It wasn't long after they made mine that they started makin' mag fed rifles, and stopped the single shots.
 
Hammer21b said:
I've got an old Ranger! I had to pick up a magazine for it and stuck in the safe. Never shot it. Might have to drag it out and put a few rounds dow range with it!
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Mines a Model 36 made between 1934-39. Still a good looking rifle. I must have shot it because the mag is dirty, bluing is 80% with a few scratches on the stock and an old leather sling. The safety doesn't work.
 
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Damned pretty, and what's more, a piece of our history. It may not stack up well against today's modern firearms, but that rifle served someone well in it's day.
 
Nice job on the refurbishment.
 
The Ranger 34 has killed a few squirrels since I cleaned it up... prolly the first of the millennium for it!
Got one this mornin'... only a haid was sticking out around the tree, so it was a haid shot.
Makes Quiet 22 almost totally silent, with it's 24" barrel.
 
I've got a VERY similar rifle that my Great Grandpa bought my Grandpa on his 10th birthday in 1922. It's a Montgomery Wards singleshot .22. Gramps used to tell me about leaning on a fence post shooting the grouse sitting in a tree. He said if he used shorts, he could start at the bottom of the tree and work his way up shooting every one of them without scaring off the rest of them.
 
I've still got my Sears (Winchester) single shot I got for a ... 13th birthday ? I can't begin to imagine how many rounds are thru the pipe on it.
 
I have an old SEARS .22 single a man gave me when I was 8. It has a broken stock (taped together). It is still sitting in my mom's attic. Thinking of pulling it out and either making or buying a stock for it. It shot well..... 53 years ago.
 
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Very nice. My dadl gave me his Remington model 31 (?). They favor quite a bit.
 
I got a Steven's Savage Model 87A when I was 6 years old from my dad it had been his for long as I can remember. I still use it today and thats soon to be 53 years ago and I'd love to have the amount of 22's I shot in that gun. It'll stay with me till I'm gone and then will be passed to son or grandson one or other not sure yet
 
I still have my single shot Sears 22 I got ...hmmm... back in 65 or so? They were actually made by Winchester .

Many many MANY rounds through that, one at a time....
 
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