The bits on all of my Spanish guns (Uggies and AyA's) were indeed castings. Trigger guard tang...top lever...safety button, etc. and even the pins and screws looked to be castings. I say that because I over torqued both a top lever pin (spindle) and breech pin on two different guns, and when they broke, the metal looked cast to me, could've been crytalized from "over" hardening, but I'm not so sure about that.
I don't think the bits being made out of castings makes much of a difference anyways, the English did the same thing for eons.
I've had pretty good luck with the Spaniards that I have owned, I did have to send two rather new AyA's back to NECG for a couple things (ejectors, cracked forend iron, broken breech pin and spindle pin, new/rehardened/reshaped strikers, and mainspring replacement)
One major issue I do have with Spanish guns are the brazed barrels. Pop a rib and your f&*$ed. Virtually impossible to relay a brazed rib and make it right. I know a person who used his AyA #1 down in South America, his gun unfortunately popped a top rib (the field repair was copper wire wrapped to hold the rib down and in place) and he ended up having to get a new set of barrels from AyA, at his own cost. Ugh. I understand thats a fairly uncommon failure, but it does happen.
While I do like some Spanish guns....I can still pick out the Spanish shotgun out of a crowded gun rack, they just kinda stick out.
Dustin
Last edited by LeFusil; 07/02/12 10:34 PM.
