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Originally Posted By: Kensal Rise

Nonetheless, I can still have my opinion. And my view remains that 95% of all Spanish guns - especially "Uggies" - are junk and not worth the human effort to have been made in the first place -- let alone repaired.


No need to sugar coat it, tell us what you really think.

This poor old girl has been "ridden hard and put up wet." Please do not start a conversation about Ugartechea quality based on this gun.

I will do a comlete teardown next and see what I find.

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I see no humor in ridiculing another mans choice of weaponry. It seems that Hoof has a fun and interesting project that I wish was mine to tinker with. Keep us posted Hoof and pics of the internal mechanism please.


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Not everyone can afford thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands on a side by side.

More birds have been killed with cheap guns than expensive ones.

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Amen Chuck. smile I know that most of us old farm boys started out with a real cheap single shot that our Dads gave us. We really treasured it and most of us still have it in our cabinet.


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"...Looks like someone let it corrode badly, and then covered it up with Gunkote!"

With that as a history, before you do any adjustments take it all apart. Clean and inspect everything.
Check for damaged or altered parts and surfaces. Sounds like it's been apart already in the past. Maybe some 'enhancements' have been performed,,maybe not. Once it's apart and clean you can tell.


Many times a good cleaning will show you better what needs to be done to repair a problem and sometimes clears the problem all together.

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Chief:

I've read Weiland's book. Was not not impressed. By the prose or the subject matter. But I suppose someone had to write it.

Mr. Ted:

With all due respect, I challenge you to list five things the Spanish are internationally famous for. If shotguns is one of them, it is a sad state of affairs indeed.

I hereby withdraw from this learned thread. I've got a Stevens 311 to fix. At least the metal is hardened properly.

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I am teaching myself to restore old doubles by buying old doubles and restoring them. As I am in the infancy of this hobby I buy cheap guns so I am not ruining good shotguns should I fail. I have done some LC Smith guns, a Fox, and a couple Stevens so far. When I get stuck I come here for help, take my lumps for working on something other than a Purdey, and usually get helpful information.

Thanks to all of you in the "helpful information" category.

I guess I will be learning box lock tear down and assembly on this project. My first LC Smith gun had a problem I had to figure out which required me to assemble the top lever assembly about four trillion times. As much as people complain about that job I could do it in my sleep now. Nothing like learning by doing.

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Kensal- list 5 things the USA is internationally famous for. Is "shotguns" one of them?

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There is nothing wrong with Ugartechea shotguns.The higher grades are wonderful guns! Bobby

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Originally Posted By: Kensal Rise
Chief:

I've read Weiland's book. Was not not impressed. By the prose or the subject matter. But I suppose someone had to write it.

Mr. Ted:

With all due respect, I challenge you to list five things the Spanish are internationally famous for. If shotguns is one of them, it is a sad state of affairs indeed.

I hereby withdraw from this learned thread. I've got a Stevens 311 to fix. At least the metal is hardened properly.


Why didn't you just start your own thread about how sorry you think Spanish guns are, and respect the original poster enough to either answer his question in a helpful way or keep off his thread if you don't know the answer? You show a great lack of respect for Hoof by doing what you did.

SRH


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