Gun Show finds?

[AmbulanceDriver]

Ok. So sm's thread regarding the single-shot shotguns kinda put a hankering in me to go find myself one. Remembering shooting my great-uncle's single shot .410, this brought back lots of good memories...

So with the gun show going on this last weekend, I decided to browse the aisles and see what i could find....

About half way through the show, found this older gentleman there with his wife who had as diverse a collection of firearms as I've ever seen... So I decided to browse his goods, as I'd seen several single shot shotguns on his tables.

And then I spotted this revolving rack with a sign on the top: Your choice, $50... Needless to say, I was a bit intrigued and decided to peruse his offerings. And I walked away with two single-shots for $100.

The first is an H&R model 158 12 gauge that appears to have been very well used, and at some point had the buttstock chopped off to make it a youth model. The bluing was worn, the stock was abused, and there was some light pitting in the barrel. But it functioned flawlessly. And I knew that with a different buttstock, this gun might just fit me really well.

The second one is a bit of a puzzler. It's a 16 gauge, It has beautiful furniture, immaculate bluing, the bore is mirror bright. In elegeant scrollwork on the left side of the receiver, is "Shapleigh's King Nitro". On the right side, just next to where the receiver meets the buttstock, is a very small "94B". Now, I've since been told that this makes the gun a Stevens, Model 94B. Is this correct? And if so, that might help me fix a "small" problem. Unfortunately, being at the gun show, the hammers were zip tied down. So I didn't really get a chance to inspect the action on this one as well as I did on the H&R. Apparently, my newest acquisition has a broken firing pin. So I need to a) find a replacement, b) figure out what I need to do to replace "a".

And I'm definitely looking forward to taking these out and trying my hand at clay pigeons.

 

[Chawbaccer]

King Nitro: Trade name used by the W.H. Davenport Firearm Company on shotguns made forthe Shapleigh Hardware Co pany of St. Louis, Missouri.

you might contact Numrich for some help.

 

[AmbulanceDriver]

Chawbaccer, thanks... I did just that, went to their website. Found the schematic, removed the firing pin, and sure enough, it's busted.....

Just ordered a new firing pin and firing pin screw. And am kicking myself for not having ordered a second one "just in case".


*shrug*

So hopefully in a couple weeks, I'll have a report of how it shoots....

 

[scout26]

I've got a King Nitro SxS with double triggers, 30" barrels at a gun show a couple of years back for $50. Locks up tight, a little heavy up front (well, duh, it's got 30" barrels) and it's choked "Full" and "Fuller". Yep, it was goose gun from way, way, way back in the days when lead was okay for waterfowl. I won't use steel in it because it wasn't designed for steel or other Heavy Shot, and it's choked way too tight for light target loads for clay games (although if I was a better shooter it wouldn't matter ) and it swings like a club.

But it's old, has lots of character marks, so it resides in my safe, mostly retired. If I had to describe it, I guess it's like Abe Simpson, Homer's Dad from "The Simpsons".

It does come out at least once a year for my club's "Double Gun Days" and I get reminded how poorly I shoot it. So it gets a good cleaning and back into the safe. It's happy in there telling stories to the other guns about the "good old days", and gets "cranky" when I take it out to actually shoot rather then just getting a bath and back into the safe.

At least that's how I see it.....

 

[AmbulanceDriver]

Ok. So parts are on the way for the 16 gauge. And while I wish I'd ordered an additional set "just in case", I'm thinking I might be putting in another order anyways for the H&R 12 gauge.

Trigger on that one is *really* mushy. While the hammer does move pretty authoritatively, it feels soft on cocking. Like the hammer spring is pretty well worn out. And while I "appreciate" the work someone has put into this thing to shorten the stock, I need a full length stock. And since I'm getting a new butt stock, I oughta get a new foregrip too, right??? And to cure the trigger creep, I probably oughta look at the mating surfaces of the hammer/trigger.... Might need a new set of those too.......

And I'fn I'm gonna drop all the money on all that, I guess I oughta maybe think about talking to H&R and see if I can get some different barrels too..... Maybe a nice 20 or 28 gauge barrel......

 

[AmbulanceDriver]

And the parts arrived today. So I put the new firing pin in the 16ga, took her down to the local range, and let loose with a box of shells.

First impression, POI is low compared to POA. Probably has to do with the monstrous plastic front sight. That'll be getting replaced by a bead....

Pattern is good overall, good distribution with # 7 1/2 Federal game loads.

DEFINITELY going to get a different buttstock on there. The plastic monstrosity it has on it right now has GOT to go. Which will also help with the recoil, instead of a hard plastic buttplate, I'll mount a proper recoil pad on there.

Extraction/ejection is reliable and decidedly vigorous, empties are flung about 10 feet behind me over my right shoulder.

Overall though, I think I'm in love.....

And I haven't even had a chance to shoot the H&R yet.....