"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
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"Bob La Londe" fired this volley in news:l3vbni$it9$1
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This is not the first thing I've had to fix on this gun.


But now it's not 'original', with that steel pin in there. Put a brass
pin
back in, and stop ****ing and moaning about haveing to turn down a piece
of
stock. This is a metalworking group, after all.

LOL. I'll put a brass pin back in there if I ever find an original magazine
for it. The original magazine had a retention clip on the magazine. The
later magazines used a piece of spring steel mounted on the magazine guide
on the gun to lock the magazine in place. Numrich sells a kit with the
spring plate and the newer magazine. I bought one. It took quite a bit of
doctoring to get it to seat right, lockup tight, and feed properly. It
didn't even pretend to be right out of the package. It wouldn't even fit in
the hole in the stock.


BTW... how the heck did you put enough strain on the trigger to completely
shear a piece of .090 brass?

The trigger doesn't just release the firing pin. It also stops the bolt
from falling out. I imagine 60 or 70 years of having that bolt slammed back
by frantic bird hunters (myself included) took its toll. As near as I can
tell this gun was made before WWII. Its not the oldest I have in my
collection, but it's the first gun I ever made a wingshot with, and it's the
first gun my dad ever let me take off on my own to go hunting. It was a
piece of crap even back then. No magazine, sticky chamber, poor ejection,
no choke... and I still loved using it. It was better than the shotguns my
buddies didn't have. I've got just about everything fixed except the sticky
chamber. I have two things to try there, before I consider trying to remove
the barrel to trim and rechamber it. I'm not sure I can remove the barrel
without damaging it so I hope my other ideas work. I can see through the
stock mounting bolt hole in the frame and the threads are buggered in there
like somebody drove a machine screw in there that was too long at one time.

My dad bought the gun from somebody who needed the cash around 1969 or 1970,
so there is not telling how much abuse it suffered before we got it. We
never had the original magazine. I just used it as a hand fed single shot
bolt action. I'm curious to see how it shoots with an actual choke tube
mounted on it. LOL. I would never even attempt a shot more than about 20
yards with it before. The shot just spread out to quick shooting out of
that open cylinder bore. Atleast with the cheap bird loads I could afford
back then.

Interestingly it looks a lot like a lighter version of some of the heavy
bolt action rifles.