Follow up on this issue:

Well I decided to take the old gun back to Gander Mountain and found out that they have a new gun smith that actually has experience and knows what he is doing. The first gunsmith quit and moved up North. Hopefully he will get more experience but I found out that he lacked character IMHO. But that's another story and I'll just leave that alone right now.

The new gun smith runs a gunsmith shop out of Corydon, IN and he drives to Evansville, IN to work at Gander Mountain.

The new guy who's name is Bob fixed my trigger. He had to remove a brass bolt that was put in my stock for extra support. Normally these brass treaded bolts are used to fix a cracked wooden stock. Not sure why my wooden stock had this installed. The rifle does not come from the factory this way. I purchased the rifle from Ragos in Evansville back in 1973. So it may have been added by Mr Argo. I really don't know. It's been there since I bought the gun.

Anyway by removing the bolt it freed the trigger from hitting the bolt. So the gun's new trigger works OK now.

I also have Bob glass bed my rifle in the stock and free float the barrel. I can take a piece of paper and run it between the stock and the barrel now. That should make this gun a better shooter. At least that's my hope.

The trigger is a replace trigger but now the Mark-X Pro Trigger. The new trigger has a "v" Stamped into the upper part of the trigger. I read that the new trigger used to fix the rifle due to the recall had this "v" stamped on to the trigger. This shows that the gun has been modified with a new safer trigger.

Now I can keep the gun on safe and open the bolt and remove ammo from the gun. Before the recall repair work the gun has to be put into the Fire position before the bolt would work and I could unload the gun. This was a very unsafe design and resulted in the law suit and the recall.

So now my gun is much safer.

The stock is made out of wood but I am not sure what type of wood. The finish makes it look like it's Walnut but it may just be the stain on the wood. But the finish is still in pretty good shape.

I had some light surface rust on the barrel but I removed that with some 0000 steel wool and oil. The gun looks much better now.

I have a laser bore sighter that I will use to get the rifle scope setup. That should save me some ammo getting the gun to hit the paper target faster.

I use the laser bore sighting device on my pellet rifle and it got me on paper the first shot. In fact the first shot was right on the outer edge of the bulls eye of the target.