Well I took possession of that lever action shotgun Tuesday morning, cleaned all the heavy grease off of it and put it all back together, the only problem was getting the hammer spring back in the receiver. By the time I got that done the temperature outside was already up to 100+ degrees, and just having recovered from congestive heart failure, I didn't feel much like going out there. Anyway bright an early this morning I went out to my range and shot a box of low base reloaded #8 shot shells. It fired all 25 rounds without a problem. The problem I had was loading those rounds, as my fingers are pretty well arthritic to say the least, and I kept at it even though the shell stop kept moving on me and allowing the rounds in the magazine tube to come out and jam the shotgun. Well I did succeed in loading 6 rounds in that shotgun towards the end and had all of the rounds eject without a problem.
The wind was blowing at about 20mph so I only shot at 5 clay targets, in which I hit 3/5 after patterning the beast at 25 yards. Using my target holder with a clean cardboard backing. (note the owners manual states it has a modified choke) I had probably 90% within a 30" circle, with at least 25% at point of aim point impact 10" circle had a 3" orange sticker in the center.
Incidentally when I had the shotgun tore down I did polish some of the parts that showed a little bit of wear from operating the lever, after buying the shotgun, and I did notice quite a few burrs that filed off really easily. The only really negatives I've got so far is it is a bear to load, and the Chinese that built the gun had to plaster "MADE IN CHINA" and the place in China, on the left side plate. Needless to say this is being polished off to be re-blued however the serial number is there along with the model number, which will remain. Other than that the bluing is fairly decent, and after I removed the hand guard, and replaced it the wood to metal fit wasn't that bad at all for a $300.00 shotgun.
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