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Model 21 hard to open #510025 03/30/18 03:14 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,643 Likes: 76 Saxapahaw N.C. PALUNC OP Sidelock
OP PALUNC Sidelock Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,643 Likes: 76 Saxapahaw N.C.	My friend has a nice 20 gauge flatside that he says is extremly hard to open after firing. Says the lever goes over but at times as to break open over his knee. What could be going on? Mike Proctor

Re: Model 21 hard to open PALUNC #510033 03/30/18 04:25 PM
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 909 Likes: 43 Mark II Sidelock
Mark II Sidelock Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 909 Likes: 43	Sounds like firing pin drag. Check for marks on primers.

Re: Model 21 hard to open PALUNC #510045 03/30/18 05:36 PM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey builder Sidelock
builder Sidelock Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey	If the shells are tight in the chamber it also makes it hard to open. You would not think it would matter but it does. How do I know! Did he switch shells? So many guns, so little time!

Re: Model 21 hard to open builder #510063 03/30/18 07:11 PM
Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,568 Likes: 100 Left Coast Bob Cash Sidelock
Bob Cash Sidelock Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,568 Likes: 100 Left Coast	Mark is correct, The firing pins are not retracting fully and are dragging across the shells face. I'm sure the experts will soon weigh in, blame Jager and King for the condition and ruin this thread like so many others. I'm out.

Re: Model 21 hard to open PALUNC #510066 03/30/18 07:33 PM
Joined: May 2016 Posts: 1,420 Likes: 197 SE Michigan Karl Graebner Sidelock
Karl Graebner Sidelock Joined: May 2016 Posts: 1,420 Likes: 197 SE Michigan	Mike, I've expierenced this myself and saw it happen to others. Upon checking the spent primers for firing pin drag, that was it in our case. A strip and clean combined with an adjustment cured it. Karl

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