Last year during our annual deer camp we were taking a break and I pulled out my old Remington No. 1 Roller in .22LR with a Fecker 12x scope and began shooting it at fired .22LR empty cases at 75 yds.. My great nephew and his buddy were infatuated with the old rifle, so I stopped and showed them how to load and shoot it, then gave them a couple boxes of ammo to shoot.
I told them to bring it back in the shop when they were done, and when they did I put it in the case without paying attention. A few days later at home I took it out to clean and put away and realized they hadn't put the scope caps back on my target scope! The trip to go get them is too far, and I knew nobody was going to disturb them since the property is my nephew's and gated. So I told him if he went up this summer to grab my scope caps.
Unfortunately nobody went up until recently when his father inlaw mentioned he was going last week, and I asked him to check the shooting bench for the lens caps. He found them, and called me to come pick them up. Fortunately they'd been left with the threaded side pointed down so they didn't fill with water and sit! Unfortunately the outside didn't fare too well, but it's easier to polish and no threads were damaged. Here's what a year outside in the snow, rain, and heat does to steel caps:
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I'll neutralize the rust first, then polish them off and reblue them and see how they come out. At least it saved me $80 to have new caps built.
I told them to bring it back in the shop when they were done, and when they did I put it in the case without paying attention. A few days later at home I took it out to clean and put away and realized they hadn't put the scope caps back on my target scope! The trip to go get them is too far, and I knew nobody was going to disturb them since the property is my nephew's and gated. So I told him if he went up this summer to grab my scope caps.
Unfortunately nobody went up until recently when his father inlaw mentioned he was going last week, and I asked him to check the shooting bench for the lens caps. He found them, and called me to come pick them up. Fortunately they'd been left with the threaded side pointed down so they didn't fill with water and sit! Unfortunately the outside didn't fare too well, but it's easier to polish and no threads were damaged. Here's what a year outside in the snow, rain, and heat does to steel caps:
I'll neutralize the rust first, then polish them off and reblue them and see how they come out. At least it saved me $80 to have new caps built.
