Savage model 24

[J_Hensley]

A coworker brought this old savage to me to see if I could get it to function for him. I’ve never seen one of these, but I kind of like it. This thing has not been very well looked after and needs some TLC.

I tore it all down(mostly). Found that the selector bar is only half there. They had glued a small piece of leather to the hammer to get it to fire. That fell off, and it would not function.
There is hardly even any evidence left of the gun ever being blued. I might try to reblue it. He just wants to be able to shoot the occasional red squirrel again.

I ordered a complete selector button kit from Numrich.

I do love a good project.

 

[J_Hensley]

This is the selector piece that is broken. And the replacement.

 

[DDriller]

The barrel on mine looks the same way. If you get that one blued I may have mine done.

 

[DShortt]

I've had good results with just cold bluing on older, inexpensive firearms. The biggest thing is the prep work. All the pits and scratches have to come off. Lot's of time with sandpaper and sometimes draw filing if there are rust pits.
I don't know what the value of a functional rifle such as that might be, so perhaps it's worth the investment for a hot caustic rebluing job. Getting hard to find anyone who does those anymore.

 

[J_Hensley]

I have some cold blue solution I will likely try.

Here are some close ups of the barrels.