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The Deeley and Edge forend on my 1896 Clabrough sidelock ten bore won’t come off. The lever only lifts partway and doesn’t disengage from the hook, even if I put quite a bit of pressure on it and pry the forend from the barrel gently with half a safety pin. This gun has Harrison ejectors, and when I pull the triggers I can feel the left one firing but not the right; shells are extracted but not ejected from either chamber. The ejectors were working before the forend problem occurred.

Any advice on what to try next? Thanks very much.

I would get it to a GOOD gunsmith.
Otherwise I see it ending badly.

LGF;

I would begin to disassemble the action of the gun by first removing the butt stock, trigger guard, trigger plate and locks; and then begin to work your way forward in the action to try to remove or at least loosen the cocking levers so that you can move them backward to disengage them with the fore-end ejector mechanism. Hopefully your gun has external cocking lever pivot pins in the side of the action that you can use a screwdriver or a punch pin to remove them and maybe slide the cocking levers back through the rear of the action. The pivot pin for the cocking levers likely will be under the bar of the action under the locks. Hopefully you can move the toplever to get to the breech pin to remove it so to remove buttstock.



Kind regards;
Stephen Howell