After talking shooting with my FIL on a recent visit, he loaned me a 513T as we were getting ready to leave from our visit. Seems he went through quite a few cases of ammo in his day, and i think the 513 was from before he got an Anshutz later on in life. I was really shocked, as he did some match stuff back in the day and won a few trophies with his toys. I assured him it will be cleaned up and returned to him in better shape than it is currently.
It's well used, and appears bone stock. The finish isn't great, nor is the stock. The bore looks to be in fairly good shape from what I can tell from a visual without a bore scope. It's got the Redfield 75 rear, and globe 68 on the front. It appears to have factory tapped barrel, and it looks like the rear tappings held a scope or hood at some point.
I think the screw off for the globe front is going to need a soaking, it's really snug and not moving. The rear sight needs a really good clean up as well, but the windage moves. The elevation needs some soaking. Several areas have accumulated some type of varnish looking stains, hopefully it will clean up.
The trigger has very little travel and breaks clean, and is reasonably light. I don't have a gauge, but I'd guess in the 2-3 pound range. The travel is really short though, and I really don't have any high end triggers, so it should be fine for me.
I've seen the stuff on the headspace, and misc good cleaning tips and such. I think I'll give it a basic cleaning and then shoot it some to see what it might do. Then from there, regardless of how it shoots, I'll either deal with it myself or have a local shop do some restoration. I'll do the stock myself either way, and I'm still on the fence on the blueing and such until I give it a good deep cleaning.
Hope it shoots well. I haven't shot a peep sight in quite a while, so I hope my eyes are up to it. Hopefully I can get the front globe loose to change inserts if needed.
I did some offhand shooting with my low budget Rossi a few weeks ago, and determined I was REALLY out of practice. But the extra weight and barrel balance of the 513 seems much more stable to me. Hopefully it will up my offhand game and possibly be a decent bench shooter as well.
I'll post up some photos once I get time to get some in decent light. I want to document the process, and it's killing me to not start cleaning it up first!
It's well used, and appears bone stock. The finish isn't great, nor is the stock. The bore looks to be in fairly good shape from what I can tell from a visual without a bore scope. It's got the Redfield 75 rear, and globe 68 on the front. It appears to have factory tapped barrel, and it looks like the rear tappings held a scope or hood at some point.
I think the screw off for the globe front is going to need a soaking, it's really snug and not moving. The rear sight needs a really good clean up as well, but the windage moves. The elevation needs some soaking. Several areas have accumulated some type of varnish looking stains, hopefully it will clean up.
The trigger has very little travel and breaks clean, and is reasonably light. I don't have a gauge, but I'd guess in the 2-3 pound range. The travel is really short though, and I really don't have any high end triggers, so it should be fine for me.
I've seen the stuff on the headspace, and misc good cleaning tips and such. I think I'll give it a basic cleaning and then shoot it some to see what it might do. Then from there, regardless of how it shoots, I'll either deal with it myself or have a local shop do some restoration. I'll do the stock myself either way, and I'm still on the fence on the blueing and such until I give it a good deep cleaning.
Hope it shoots well. I haven't shot a peep sight in quite a while, so I hope my eyes are up to it. Hopefully I can get the front globe loose to change inserts if needed.
I did some offhand shooting with my low budget Rossi a few weeks ago, and determined I was REALLY out of practice. But the extra weight and barrel balance of the 513 seems much more stable to me. Hopefully it will up my offhand game and possibly be a decent bench shooter as well.
I'll post up some photos once I get time to get some in decent light. I want to document the process, and it's killing me to not start cleaning it up first!