icebones
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well, it seems while i was home on leave i picked up a very lightly used H&R 12 gauge single shot for 80 bucks at a pawn shop. when i say lightly used, i mean it. the finish was almost 100% and the stocks were like new. no scratches, no rust no dings. the bore was spotless.
i fired about 70-80 shells through it and it shot fine, just like an H&R should, cause we all know that they are well, reliable as a rock. or so i though.
I was shooting at clays and i chambered a light 2.75'' shell, pulled back the hammer and pulled the trigger on a bird. i got a click instead of a boom.
seems that the transfer bar SNAPPED OFF. thats right. i somehow managed to break an H&R. i never dry fired it, though i did pick it up from a pawn shop. so god only knows what its previous owner/s did with it. i guess i will be making a call to H&R for a new transfer bar when i get back to the states.
the whole thing scared me, i mean these guns are the finest example of mechanical simplicity... any body else had an H&R single die on them too?
the only thing i can attribute this the transfer bar breaking like that was either the previous owner dry fired the hell out of it, or it was just a 1 in a million fluke, or maybe just bad metalurgy.
i fired about 70-80 shells through it and it shot fine, just like an H&R should, cause we all know that they are well, reliable as a rock. or so i though.
I was shooting at clays and i chambered a light 2.75'' shell, pulled back the hammer and pulled the trigger on a bird. i got a click instead of a boom.
seems that the transfer bar SNAPPED OFF. thats right. i somehow managed to break an H&R. i never dry fired it, though i did pick it up from a pawn shop. so god only knows what its previous owner/s did with it. i guess i will be making a call to H&R for a new transfer bar when i get back to the states.
the whole thing scared me, i mean these guns are the finest example of mechanical simplicity... any body else had an H&R single die on them too?
the only thing i can attribute this the transfer bar breaking like that was either the previous owner dry fired the hell out of it, or it was just a 1 in a million fluke, or maybe just bad metalurgy.