I have a 16 ga SXS F. Dumoulin that I bought a while back. When it arrived I though it looked good. Seemed to my ignorant eyes to be tight and sound.
A few days afterwards I realize that there are punch marks around part of the action. I posted a question here about that and found out MORE than I wanted to know but decided that if that was the only problem then I'd just shoot it till it needed more work.
So a couple of weeks later I carried it to the range and loaded her up. First pull of the trigger and CLICK! That's all just CLICK! Tried it a few more times with the same result. Primer is dimpled but will not go off. Rounds fire in the left barrel.
Carried it to a smith who pulled it apart and found that the pin was a little short and that the right side spring was somewhat weaker. He did some cleaning and said that it would now fire but that "it would not last".
So I get it home and am diggin through a few empties with the intent of seating new primers so that I can test the gun in the yard without riling the neighbors. While doing this I notice something unusual, at least I think it's unusual, about the shells that were fired in the LEFT barrel previously.
It seems that those shells all have a bulge right were the extractor cut is. The bulge is noticable to the naked eye and is pronounced enough to where those empties can not be reinserted in the chambers unless they are lined up with the extractor cut out.
I also notice that the heads of the shells look funny. It's almost as if the base swelled in the middle while the rim did not?? Compared to some 20 ga shells I had it looks like the rims are swolen too?
So then I start really shaking the thing and looking hard with a glass to see if I can see what is going on with the gun. And I realize that it seems looser, after only 25 rounds through it, than it was when I got it................*&%$#!
What do I do?
Do I run some $s down this hole? I can't in good conscense sell it as it is. And truth be known I really like the way it feels and looks.
Opinions...........where to send it? I'm in Fl. and if I can get it done here I save some FFL fees. In fact if there is someone close to St. Augustine I can drop it off. But then I know that Double Gun work is specalized so...........
