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June 18, 2022

It’s a post reticule scope my favorite. The eye relief makes the foucs picture is more like a peep apeture , than a wide field picture Make walnut stain by taking big plastic bag of green hulls , putting them in a 5 gallon spackle bucket, add 3 gallons og boiling water and let stew for 6 to 10 months .the longer the it sits the darker the color, take it ou poke holes in the bottom and strain into the bucket yeild gallon and a half or more.

November 1, 2013

Ralph Fitzwater said
This is a recent acqusition a nice clean 1932 barrel dated .22 Model 52. Second model with a Gumwood stock.
Ralph, Gumwood was never used on 52s. Might have been a lower grade walnut, but it wasn’t gumwood. Glad to see you didn’t apply any kind of gloss finish, & the color looks about right.
I found out all I wanted to know about walnut hull stain when my father set me the task of de-hulling a bushel basket of fresh black walnuts from a tree on our property.

June 18, 2022

you’re wrong ,i’ve been a woodworker for 60 years and walnut has always been a favorite i can tell by the smell whn cutting.Winchester state it was available on special order as well as any other grade wood. there are no “cut and dried rules ” with somethings , it depends on the day or time the blanks were turned.,if the woo shop had no choice one week until the next batch of walnut blanks was ready they would substitute Gumwood.

March 12, 2008

I have to agree with Clarence on this one. I have owned and examined lots and lots of 52’s over the years. Never have I seen a gumwood stock on a 52. This was Winchester’s “flagship” rimfire target rifle and I cannot ever imagine them substituting a gumwood stock on these rifles. I have never seen a gumwood stock on any Winchester 22 except for the early low cost boy’s rifles. Not that it proves anything, but I happen to have the original Winchester blueprint for the rough cut blank of the stock used on your 52 rifle. As for material, it states “Selected American Black Walnut”.
I’m sure if someone wanted gumwood bad enough, Winchester would have made you one on a special order basis, but I have to ask “why”? If one was installed on a production, non special order rifle, I feel it was a mistake and not due to a lack of walnut.
Steve

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