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Did you break it over your knee? I've seen guys going that when the pins are stuck in the primers.
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Is that the “new” gun you were waiting on?
If it had rebounding hammers then a FP return spring must have broken.
Sorry for the loss.
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Speude Bradeos
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Is that the “new” gun you were waiting on?
If it had rebounding hammers then a FP return spring must have broken.
Sorry for the loss. No. The “new” gun is an English 2” chamber boxlock, detailed elsewhere on the board. Best, Ted
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That's awful, sorry it happened.
Who will you use for the repairs?
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Thanks Ted, yeah...not the 2-inch.
Dr. Drew:
I still can't believe I have so destroyed this gun. If I had shifted my use to the left barrel (to avoid the pierced primers) I might have wholly avoided this disaster.
I tend to think of these older Smiths as huge and heavy and I forget all the fragility that time builds into these things after 136 years...
I got so caught up in the sequence of 5 guys shooting trap (& it was crushing the clays so shockingly well!) that I didn't want to interrupt that rythym so... I was forcing the gun to keep functioning.
Such a waste.
To answer your questions...no evidence of any instability in this stock until that ulitmate failure. Yeah..that top strap separated completely behind the safety...I clearly don't know my own strength, sadly.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 07/31/26 12:43 AM.
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How awful, so sorry. This is a real lesson for me, as the firing pins of my Jeffery boxlock seem to hang up on Winchester primers and I have to muscle it open, but it doesn't with Cheddites. It has had a wrist repair, and after seeing this I will be very careful with it in the future.
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Were you shooting with Factory shells or homeloads?
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Factory Fiocchi 1-ounce shells, a lighter target load they make.
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