On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:38:20 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
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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.
P.S. The smallest piece of brass stock I could locate in the shop was 3/4".
I just have heartburn about turning that much metal into chips.
???? Odd..Im just a hobbiest and Ive got 40-50 lbs of brass laying out
in the bins
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