I recently purchased a Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon Sporting…..Have lusted after one for years and finally fulfilled a bucket list item! Everything about the shotgun is great….Except the EJECTION …..The spings Beretta used will launch a shell upon opening the action into the next county! And if you actually use your hand to capture the
I have a wonderful , 40 year old Charles Daly / Miroku 12G Superior Trap shotgun. The other day, shooting trap, I was 21 for 22 when the top lever leaf spring broke. UGH!!! As I’m sure most of you are aware, leaf springs were used in many older shotguns, rifles and handguns. Today, most
Don’y you just hate an empty hole? Seems like there ought to be something filling it! On the Uberti 1866 and 1873 lever action rifles, most cowboys remove the lever lock that was designed to hold the lever closed when in a saddle scabbard on a horse. Since it isn’t needed by modern cowboys, it
Picked up a used Charles Daly Miroku Superior yesterday and it needed a couple simple modes…. First remove the very 1960s white line spacers Second… I’m not a big fan of ejectors. And this gun could fling spent shells into another county! I removed the two V springs that must have come from the rear
Recently I became a fan of Trap Shooting. Went out and bought a beautiful Remington 11-87 Sporting Clays model shotgun. Adjustable comb and butt plate. Twenty Eight inch ported / back bored barrel with extended choke tubes. Amazing wood and a nickle plated receiver. Loverly! But when taken to the patterning board there was
I recently purchased a Tedna PRIME SE12T over and under shotgun in 12GA. Its a beautiful shotgun with outstanding fit and finish. CDNN in Texas was closing them out for $399 and I simply couldn’t resist adding a 12Ga O/U to my growing shotgun collection. I love everything about this shotgun…except the ejectors. It eject
I simply can’t stop loving me some old rifles! I always wanted a Civil War era Sharps Carbine in 50-70. But the price for a good example was always out of reach. A few weeks ago a fellow on one of the forums I frequent was looking to sell a 1859 Sharps Carbine and was
The SKB 100 and 200 double barrel shotguns are the favorite of the Single Action Shooting Society or Cowboy Action Shooting crowd. But they have one relatively large issue. The forend tends to creep forward under recoil and in some cases may split the forend wood. I decided to try and bed the forend on
A few months back I wandered into the local Cabelas and in the “Gun Library” was a very nice looking Marlin Model 92 lever action rifle at a very agreeable price. It had been refinished which in the hobby of collectable firearms is a No-No. Strange, a reconditioned automobile will increase its value, but refinish
No, NOT that Hepburn… I’ll leave that up to Humphrey Bogart… I’m talking about THIS Remington Hepburn.. I’ve always had a lust for a Remington Hepburn ever since I attended my first Schutzen match a number of years ago. I saw a couple fellows shooting them and I just thought the whole side lever thing was
