Originally Posted By: gjw
Interesting that Drew posted a POS shotgun. I had a very good friend who had a 10ga Spanish gun he was going to use for hunting geese. Worked fine the first hunt, but the next weekend, both bbls wouldn't fire. Took it to a gunsmith who inspected it. Well, the firing pins were mushroomed.
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Ive seen the same thing happen in a Pedro Arrizabalaga. The problem of parts that are poorly heat treated, or not heat treated at all, is sometimes an issue with Spanish shotguns. The problem is not related to maker, or price point, and its just as likely to happen on a top end gun as a bottom end gun. The problem is just an artifact of the network of suppliers of parts and the inability of that network to scale up for sudden higher demand.

As an aside, this is one of the reasons I prefer used guns. If I buy a functional twenty year old gun I know that either it never had a problem with poorly heat treated parts, or the problem was detected and solved many years ago.