First three picts. I had on here last winter. It's an old Remington model 24 auto. my favorite neighbor Harry gave me in about 1970. It was worn out and rusty then and I didn't do it any favors using it for coon hunting in the rain and brush, falling down and so on. Next three I was trying to make the stock a little better, was wraped in tape as long as I had it, end was cracked in three places, all the wood that the trigger guard keyed into was sheared off on both sides, drilled 8 holes in the stock for some tooth, formed and clamped the end and poured it full of JB weld. It was torn apart on my bench since February, was tired of the mess this morning so blued the last two parts and put it together. Lost the inner mag tube forty years ago out in the woods somewhere, started working on another one and never finished it. This one was too long so I cut the tube with my tubing cutter, stuck the upper end of a speedometer cable in the tube and crimped it with the tubing cutter and the piece on the end is the cap off a ball point pen. Was afraid I made the cable a hair too short to push in the last shell but it works, ventilated my burn barrel with it. Only thing I lost in all that time was the rear sight. Came out a long ways from perfect but atleast got rid of the black tape.
