+1 on all the positive comments.

I currently have 3 680 series guns.

The only failures I've seen on 680 series guns have been three differet cases of broken hammers.

One of them was my trap 682, a 1985 production gun. It fired quite a few shells before the failure. The hammer simply fractured into two pieces.

The good news is that Cole's sent me a hammer and it simply dropped in without much fuss or disassembly. Just drive the axle out with a pin, and presto - new hammer.

I'd take a spare set of hammers to Argentina.


"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble