[Lomax]

Remington 511 ScoreMaster

I bought a couple more .22's to keep me occupied. These Euro imports were in pretty decent shape considering their age. Both are barrel stamped B-SS... 1947? Euro guns require serial numbers, so one rifle is stamped 205XX and the other stamped 215XX. Funny how these rifles stuck together for all of 74 years.

I started in on the one held together with masking tape. Broken mag latch under the tape.

Scratchy, scratchy.

Washing the grime off comes next.

The front sight resembles a knife blade.

 

[silverstring]

Love your projects..

 

[Lomax]

After a bath & dry, slobbering with aniline dye was a necessary evil. After some sanding and two more coats of dye & dry time, super glue was drizzled into the smaller dents & dings.

Filling the dings with super glue will show as dark spots(liver spots? It is 74 years old.)

Next comes a good shellacking.

 

[Lomax]

I like using Shellac as a sanding sealer/filler. It's fast and easy to work with. Four spray bomb coats, with 320 carding on the last two coats is the plan.

3rd coat carding.

Applying the fourth coat.

No longer dingy brown huh?

Dull it down a bit with 320, tack it, then let the finger-painting begin with TruOil.

 

[william]

Very Nice!

 

[JimmyA]

Lookin great as usual! That's an older one too.

 

[bigC]

Nice Fluff & Buff!

 

[Lomax]

In daylight the color pops nicely.

Shellac is a durable wood finish, easy to care for and repair. If one doesn't care for the shine, carding with 0000 and carnauba wax can produce a nice soft luster. At this point, the rifle could be reassembled and taken to the field.

Instead, I use shellac as a primer/sealer/filler and protect the shellac with a few coats of TruOil as the finishing coat.

Two coats of TruOil applied.

Tother side.

 

[Montkun]

Very nice sir, i love my 511 Score Master. It's also a 47 model that my Grandfather bought for $12 with his first Army check in 47. Literally the most accurate .22 I've ever shot.

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[Lomax]

An added step for this stock is to soften the TruOil luster with a massage of 000 impregnated with carnauba wax.

Seeing it up close shows a more subtle shine.

Right to left: Gustloff TruOil left shiny, 511 soft luster carded & waxed, 511 and an old walnut shotgun stock wearing a Ladybug..

The next 511 has a couple of nasty looking cracks.

 

[Lomax]

Repair parts are arriving next Monday to replace the two piece magazine latch and masking tape.

Bore sighting the iron sights & scope and relapping the crown are still on the list.

Nick in crown at 12 o'clock.

 

[Lomax]

This morning's crown lapping seemed to go well. Easy peasy. If my dog had thumbs, I'd have made her do it.
Here you see a piece of .22 snap cap plugging the bore. With a dollop of valve grinding compound placed in the bore, a brass round headed machine screw chucked in a hand drill acts as the champering tool.

Coffee powered.

After 15-20 cranks under light pressure, a thin silver colored ring developed at the bore w/o any dings or burrs.

Twin red headed Remington sisters waiting for a shooting date.

 

[Lomax]

Parts from Numrich arrived Saturday. I had good luck replacing the original with a repo latch in the second sister, but the new latch needed adjustments. I stuck the oldie out of the other rifle in place and it'll do just fine.

This stock took a hard hit at some point. Floyd, said it had a long crack on the left side. I like how it'd been repaired with nails and glue. I love the liberal use of tack hammer etching on the scope mount. I found at least five fractures in the wood after the first washing. The wood was shattered.

Every crack had been flooded with superglue. Even the inletting was given a superglue bath.

 

[Lomax]

I bore sighted the scope and iron sights of both 511's this morning. Irons on one are stock, the other has a Euro flavored tiny notch at the rear. The front resembles a knife edge. How well they work is beyond me. I'm hoping the old Weaver glass is up to the tasks for both.

The windage turret took a terrible hit and the remaining elevation cap found a new home on Mr. Gustloff.

Lifting the bolt handle cocks the firing pin. Reminds me of operating a '54 Buick bumper jack handle.

The trigger and several parts of the bolt are still beautifully casehardened.

 

[dwhite]

Those old 510's and 511's are some FINE, FINE rifles. My father has, well he's passed now, a 511 I bet hasn't had 100 rounds run through it since he bought in in the early 1960's. The bluing has turned that nice patina color.

I've got a 510 that's not perfect but it's a fine shooter. I think the serial number is 59995.