I had one of these guns a couple decades ago and let someone talk me out of it. It was a real shooter, making a single ragged hole at 50 yds from a sandbag rest with high quality target ammo. I found another one for sale on the internet from a gun shop that I've never done business with. I usually become very disappointed when opening the box from a strange company. I've found a seller's 97%- 98% condition gun can actually be a buyers 85%-90% condition gun. That happened in this case, also.

Don't know how many of you are old enough to have seen Peter Fonda's movie "Easy Rider." But I believe this rifle was in his truck's window gun rack during the making of that movie. Usually gun racks have some kind of padding in the "hooks" where the guns rest. Apparently not where this gun rested. There are hundreds of scratches on the forend between the sling stud and the magazine well. The same scratches are on the buttstock behind the pistol grip. This is where the gun would have rested in a horizontal gun rack. Also, the buttplate was cracked and split through the top mounting hole at a 45 degree angle down through the left side mounting screw hole. There's an indentation in the buttplate above the top mounting hole. Apparently this gun took a pretty good drop, buttplate first onto a fairly hard surface.

The problem being I paid for a 98% condition gun. Caveat Emptor.

I was able to remove the buttplate, fill the cracks with epoxy, place it in a padded vise, and press it back together. It set up over night and some light sanding with 800 grit and polishing with 2,000 grit sandpaper and the buttplate installed and doesn't look too bad. There's no fix for the hundreds of scratches in the wood other than a total refinish.

The safety retaining screw was so loose the safety had a lot of sideways movement. I tighten that up and now the safety works perfectly. Someone who didn't know what they were doing had adjusted the 3-screw trigger adjustments. I've had decades of experience with this and the model 700 trigger adjustments, so went through the procedure and used some red fingernail polish and the trigger is a nice clean, crisp 2 1/2 lbs with very little over travel. The magazine release assembly had been bent and the magazine would not seat properly. A little "reforming" and magazines now snap into place and don't move around and rattle.

I installed an EGW forged, machined aluminum 1-piece Picatinny rail on the receiver. And of course I had to replace the too long 6-48 X 1/4 inch rear screws with shorter 6-48 X 3/16 ones that don't bind the bolt. This has been a constant problem with the really good Picatinny base. No one at EGW seems to pay any attention to the length of the screws they provide with the base. I always use Burris XTR rings. They are overkill for rimfire guns, but they are on all my guns. They are forged, machined aluminum and are really good for the money. They have a large bolt that holds them onto the rail, and each ring cap has 6 screws. And one of the best scopes for a nice rimfire rifle is the Leupold VX2 3-9X33AO Ultralight Extra Fine Reticle rimfire scope. It's a nice lightweight scope with the adjustable objective I need for squirrel hunting in the deep woods. Leupold presets their VX2 rimfire scopes for focus and parallax at 50 yds. Not all my squirrel hunting is done at 50 yds. I like to have what I am shooting at in focus, so the AO function is what I like.

I happen to have a brick and a half of Federal Premium Gold Metal, Ultra Match UM22 long rifle ammo. I'm going to give that a try in this 541-S and see if I have another really great shooter. Hopefully it won't be a disappointment like the condition of the gun was as received. I doubt I'll be doing any further business with the gun shop I purchased this gun from. A 85% condition rating would have been far more honest. Of course then, the seller couldn't have asked the price that he did.

Rod

Got any pictures to post of her Rod...?

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Here's my collection of Remington rimfire rifles. All of them are discontinued models. On top, Remington model 12 pump. In the middle, Remington Nylon 66. On the bottom the Remington 541-S I just picked up. I think this does it for a while for my rimfire collection. I have 2 other rimfire rifles; a Savage model 24, 22 long rifle over .410 shotgun made in 1947, and a custom built semi auto using Tony Kidd's custom receiver, and internal parts; Tactical Solutions fluted/sleeved barrel; and a Fajen Legacy adjustable stock.

Rod

Nice collection...!!