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Sporting Goods Franchise, weekly special, bought because I said " you need one of them.
$189 out the door without the J Lock.
Snagged Improved Cylinder Choke, Skeet Choke off the rack. I forget what these run pricewise.
"Let us run it through the paces, let us try to break it" - Lady said , owner of this gun.
My goal : to either bust Internet Myths or break this gun. One or the other.
Got it home, took it apart, all parts there, put back. NO cleaning to remove factory preservative. Only thing was using lighter fluid to flush out firing pin. Grabbed a bottle of Singer Sewing Machine Oil and ammunition.
Ammunition was a hodgepodge. From Thirty year old skeet loads reloaded three times too many times, all jumbled in a box with candle wax, electrical tape - or both, to Old Federal , Remington, Winchester target loads, to 700 old assorted slugs - some with rust on the brass casings.
Left the Mod tube in. We are going to run the gun, worry about patterns and groups later. Break it or Make it...
Started on Slugs. Five folks various targets from 6" and 9 inch paper plates, paint buckets and that heavy duty 6" steel target I was going to break off its mount, and we did have a private skeet field right "here". Mod choke? Who cares? Focus on target - not the damn gun.
AM/FM Cassette / CD player . Eyes, Ears, and with me in a Rebel gray bandana, I lead off. Loaded up with slugs, that steel target is mine, button pushed on player and...
If your going through hell don't slow down...(somebody find the link to them lyrics and artist - I likes this song ...)
The Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon CD was popped in and " the boy is Comfortably Numb for sure...
I was shucking and shooting and ringing that steel, an additional beef jerky stick was put in my back jeans pocket, when shells were added to shell pouch, from time to time a lit cigarette was stuck in my mouth...I was multi-tasking.
About slug 140, the steel broke, I did not cheat, I did not miss, I was going for that heavy chain welded on purpose...now for the paint can with rocks...
About slug 170 (guessing here) one of these rusty cases did not want to extract as well as I thought it should, squatted down and slammed that recoil pad down on a piece of cardboard, fingers said chamber cleared, shucked another round into chamber, filled up mag, and went onto to finish the 8th box of these old slugs.
Been a bit since I run 200 slugs straight as fast as could, not as young as I once was - no matter, just need to be young when you need to be.
"Gun did not break, Internet said it was supposed to break" - Lady owner said with wry smirk.
She added a drop of Singer Sewing machine oil to each rail. She snagged new target loads, and she started shucking and pumping, just shooting a stationary target, about a half a box into doing so, she held out the gun, muzzle down range and we dumped a bucket of fine sand like used in cigarette butt cans. Action open, trigger guard up, we wanted the gun to get sand into and everywhere. She finished her box, another shooter finished thier box.
Gun broke down as fast as could, hot soapy water dumped onto gun, barrel was off, fast battery drill of Bronze brush with wisps of 0000 steel wool for chamber, choke removed, RIG +P applied, snugged. Brake Cleaner to blast out the rest of gun, and put back together fast. Three folks, racing against time to get this gun back and running.
No lube- only RIG + P forchoke tube.
One more shooter ran a box and then we ran out of daylight...we ain't broke nothing so far but Myths.
I had the only glitch, truth be told , I should not have loaded that shell. Still, the shell fired, and the gun was back in the running in the blink of an eye...Keep the gun fed, keep it running, and just shoot the damn thing...
to be continued...
$189 out the door without the J Lock.
Snagged Improved Cylinder Choke, Skeet Choke off the rack. I forget what these run pricewise.
"Let us run it through the paces, let us try to break it" - Lady said , owner of this gun.
My goal : to either bust Internet Myths or break this gun. One or the other.
Got it home, took it apart, all parts there, put back. NO cleaning to remove factory preservative. Only thing was using lighter fluid to flush out firing pin. Grabbed a bottle of Singer Sewing Machine Oil and ammunition.
Ammunition was a hodgepodge. From Thirty year old skeet loads reloaded three times too many times, all jumbled in a box with candle wax, electrical tape - or both, to Old Federal , Remington, Winchester target loads, to 700 old assorted slugs - some with rust on the brass casings.
Left the Mod tube in. We are going to run the gun, worry about patterns and groups later. Break it or Make it...
Started on Slugs. Five folks various targets from 6" and 9 inch paper plates, paint buckets and that heavy duty 6" steel target I was going to break off its mount, and we did have a private skeet field right "here". Mod choke? Who cares? Focus on target - not the damn gun.
AM/FM Cassette / CD player . Eyes, Ears, and with me in a Rebel gray bandana, I lead off. Loaded up with slugs, that steel target is mine, button pushed on player and...
If your going through hell don't slow down...(somebody find the link to them lyrics and artist - I likes this song ...)
The Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon CD was popped in and " the boy is Comfortably Numb for sure...
I was shucking and shooting and ringing that steel, an additional beef jerky stick was put in my back jeans pocket, when shells were added to shell pouch, from time to time a lit cigarette was stuck in my mouth...I was multi-tasking.
About slug 140, the steel broke, I did not cheat, I did not miss, I was going for that heavy chain welded on purpose...now for the paint can with rocks...
About slug 170 (guessing here) one of these rusty cases did not want to extract as well as I thought it should, squatted down and slammed that recoil pad down on a piece of cardboard, fingers said chamber cleared, shucked another round into chamber, filled up mag, and went onto to finish the 8th box of these old slugs.
Been a bit since I run 200 slugs straight as fast as could, not as young as I once was - no matter, just need to be young when you need to be.
"Gun did not break, Internet said it was supposed to break" - Lady owner said with wry smirk.
She added a drop of Singer Sewing machine oil to each rail. She snagged new target loads, and she started shucking and pumping, just shooting a stationary target, about a half a box into doing so, she held out the gun, muzzle down range and we dumped a bucket of fine sand like used in cigarette butt cans. Action open, trigger guard up, we wanted the gun to get sand into and everywhere. She finished her box, another shooter finished thier box.
Gun broke down as fast as could, hot soapy water dumped onto gun, barrel was off, fast battery drill of Bronze brush with wisps of 0000 steel wool for chamber, choke removed, RIG +P applied, snugged. Brake Cleaner to blast out the rest of gun, and put back together fast. Three folks, racing against time to get this gun back and running.
No lube- only RIG + P forchoke tube.
One more shooter ran a box and then we ran out of daylight...we ain't broke nothing so far but Myths.
I had the only glitch, truth be told , I should not have loaded that shell. Still, the shell fired, and the gun was back in the running in the blink of an eye...Keep the gun fed, keep it running, and just shoot the damn thing...
to be continued...
