Rifle Recovered from Fire. Safe to Shoot?

[geoint]

before anybody asks, make sure you edit your original post to include "I had it DROSed"


Or indicate that you live in a free state (even if you dont)

[haza12d]

before anybody asks, make sure you edit your original post to include "I had it DROSed"


Or indicate that you live in a free state (even if you dont)

[emoji6]

[bandook]

before anybody asks, make sure you edit your original post to include "I had it DROSed"


Or indicate that you live in a free state (even if you dont)

Looks like OP updated the initial post and raised more questions (like how can a person DROS a gun to themselves...)

OP, google "California Voluntary Firearms Registration" for the form to file with a $19 check for registering the rifle.

(Good find )

[Fjold]

The safest bet would be to take it apart and remove the magazine spring.

The magazine spring will lose it temper and stop working at less than half of the temperature that it requires to damage the barrel and action steel. If the magazine spring is still a spring rather than just a bent piece of metal then you're good to go. If the spring has lost its temper then you need to do a lot more testing.

[Walking Fire]

Burnt shed rifle= crime scene cover up..
Call the Cops, the sky is falling, You have a murderers sniper rifle with your prints on it..

[ja308]

Wonder if the blackness was not caused by fire ? Possibly it was one of the 10BlackKings. Bob Lee Swagger was enamored with ?

It was a bolt-action Model 70 target, pre-’64, with a fat bull barrel and a Unertl 36x scope running nearly along its entire barrel length. Its dark gleam blazed out at him in that high sheen that was now a lost art but had reached its highest pitch in the great American gunmaking days of the 1920s and ’30s. It was almost pristine, too, clean and crisp, well tended, much loved and trusted. But it was the wood that really hit him. The wood, in that slightly thicker pre-’64 configuration, was almost black; he’d never seen a walnut with such blackness to it; but it wasn’t like black plastic for it had the warm gleam of the organic to it. Black wood?

From the book "Point of Impact " by Steven Hunter . As a side note the movie "Shooter" was loosely based on this novel. When I say loosely I mean to say the movie was barely recognizable from the very enjoyable book .
Sorry for the digression !

[haza12d]

Looks like OP updated the initial post and raised more questions (like how can a person DROS a gun to themselves...)

OP, google "California Voluntary Firearms Registration" for the form to file with a $19 check for registering the rifle.

(Good find )

Spoke to the daughter of the previous owner and the gun was left to her in the will. She did agree to transfer the rifle to my name. She says she doesn't want any guns in the house with her 2 year old and 8 month old. So I guess we need to figure out how to make that happen!

[ja308]

Spoke to the daughter of the previous owner and the gun was left to her in the will. She did agree to transfer the rifle to my name. She says she doesn't want any guns in the house with her 2 year old and 8 month old. So I guess we need to figure out how to make that happen!

too bad this young lady thinks there could never be a need to protect her family against predators.

The pathetic plea of "Please dont hurt Me" almost never works for human predators and never works for animal predators .

My prayers are she never needs the best tool for self preservation .

[BigPimping]

Clear it with a gunsmith and then shine it up and get some nice wood. That looks like a keeper. Wish I scored it.

[haza12d]

The safest bet would be to take it apart and remove the magazine spring.

The magazine spring will lose it temper and stop working at less than half of the temperature that it requires to damage the barrel and action steel. If the magazine spring is still a spring rather than just a bent piece of metal then you're good to go. If the spring has lost its temper then you need to do a lot more testing.

This is what the magazine spring looks like.




Update: Took it to a gunsmith yesterday and he said it was fine. Took it to the range today and had some fun with it. It has a little more kick than the 5.56! Haha [emoji16]