I've taken my own advise and pulled the stock and trigger group and have the trigger group and the receiver soaking in some (gasp!) gasoline. I had hit them with some carb cleaner but the grime is too hardened with age. Fear not, the old coffee can of gas is outdoors and it's 39 degrees here, so vapors aren't a big problem this morning. It looks as though Kutter is right, the cartridge cut-off may have been slightly bent by some nitwit, but I'm going to give everything a good scrubbing first and see how everything fits together before any modifications are made.
I've got something like $190 in this old corn-shucker, so making it fit me wasn't a hesitation. It now has a LOP of 14 1/2 inches and a drop of only 2 1/2 (1 1/2 at the comb). It also now sports a straight stock. I've paid big bucks for fine English shotguns, but this one can do the job for almost pocket change. The "Perfect Repeater" indeed!
Last edited by Lloyd3; 12/17/12 04:21 PM.
