Thread: Winchester 88 Bolt cam lock pin

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings @Markos,
I made slave pins for mine as well, I don't know where I got the idea from. After a while the drama of taking it to bits, needing to be cleaned from the muzzle, average trigger and heavy apparent recoil from the stock with far too much drop resulted in it being sold.
Regards Grandpamac.

This one is a .243 so recoil should be fine.
I'll just clean it with a boresnake although I didn't find disassembly/assembly to the point of removing the bolt was difficult at all.

Bonus today, I just found out Skinner makes peep sights for these rifles, so I just ordered a peep sight and a taller front sight for this rifle. I look forward to taking a file to the range to sight it in, you always get funny looks when sighting in new open sights and you start filing away on your rifle in front of the rest of the shooters lol.

Hopefully won't be too far away but still have to prep and rust blue all the steel parts. Most of the internal parts are perfectly fine but I'll do everything visible from the outside for consistency. Then get probably another 5 coats of finish on, then rechecker, final finishing and buffing out the stock. Load up some .243 and I'm away.

Rather enjoying this winter project so far.