Buck197
WKR
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- Mar 29, 2020
So, I lost my father to cancer in 2000. A few years before his passing, I was working in Colorado, and got heavily into guns and such, and told daddy I wanted to have some work done on one of his rifles. When he was passing through, on the way to a pipeline job in Wyoming, he dropped off an old Remington 7400 semi auto, believe its a 7400, not in front of me at the moment. I took it to a gunsmith in Evergreen Colorado, and as my dad was always called Buck, I had a engraving, laser if memory serves me, done on the stock, the stock refinished, Parkerized on the metal, and he engraved on the side of the receiver, customized for Buck with our last name. So the stock came out really nice, finish and engraving, its a really nice unique look, on a semi auto dad probably harvested near a hundred whitetail on...don't ask, it was a different day and age, haha. Anyways, where the guy hand engraved on the receiver, it looked like the fellow had been on a 3 day drinking binge, or just coming off of one. Dad's long gone now, I don't have kids to pass it on to, but I would like to fix this. I guess I was to nice in those days because I'd probably knock em on his ass for that crap job nowadays.Do any of yall know, or think, maybe nowadays I could maybe get someone thats decent laser that out so it doesn't look like a man with hand tremors engraved the customized for Buck part. I don't know, maybe cover it, enlarge the letters, Any ideas?
I recently found my brother I hadn't seen since I was 8 or 10 years old, and im thinking I'd like to pass this rifle onto his son, or my cousins son in the next few years. Sorry for the story, but its somethjng that bothers the hell out of me, and even with my dad gone I'd like to make it right, although he never complained.
Thanks folks, any suggestions, ideas, opinions, advice, id sure be obliged.
I recently found my brother I hadn't seen since I was 8 or 10 years old, and im thinking I'd like to pass this rifle onto his son, or my cousins son in the next few years. Sorry for the story, but its somethjng that bothers the hell out of me, and even with my dad gone I'd like to make it right, although he never complained.
Thanks folks, any suggestions, ideas, opinions, advice, id sure be obliged.