the Spanish shotgun curse is mostly a myth...
the most common problem being soft sears...
much to do about not very much...
but, don't expect a $500 gun to have the qualities and durability as a $1000 gun...
I had hoped to learn a lot more about all those Spanish shotguns with soft parts from this Thread. We have heard it repeated for many years. I really expected that we would have had numerous posts from guys who had problems with cocking, doubling, failure to fire, accidental discharges, etc.
But the worst we got in this thread is reports of a couple soft firing pins. That's hardly the end of the world. I've seen a fair number of mushroomed firing pins in American guns, even some made by respected makers. Also have seen American guns with worn or fractured sears. So now I'm left wondering if this bad reputation of Spanish guns was ever factual and accurate, or if it is "mostly a myth", as Ed says. I have seen a number of cheap and poorly finished Spanish guns. You could tell they were poor quality from 50 feet away at a gun show, and that probably carried over into the internal parts. But we don't judge the quality of better American guns based upon the lesser quality of millions of cheap hardware store guns.
I'm not likely to turn my interests and future purchases toward Spanish doubles... but at this point, all those horror stories about Spanish doubles is starting to sound a lot like the cock and bull stories about small bore Ithaca Flues shotguns being especially prone to frame cracking.
