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This sucker is hard to open after fireing.Crap I Think that they have replaced the ejector springs once upon a time with some heavy duty ones in. The only sidelock I have has a self opener and this may be the reason.
Is this normal?
Still a nice gun just curious?
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Check for a scratch originating in the center of the primer and radiating out to the edge of rim. If it is there the firing pins are too long or are hanging up.
Or are you using snap caps?
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Is the gun a Sidelock or boxlock? Difficult to open when dry fired and empty chambers?
Socialism is almost the worst.
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Mike you may be on to something.I first had a snap cap in it that got hung up. I called a gunmaker and he told me to bump the bottom of reciever while opening with my palm. ..Worked! Then I cut a shell and put just a hull and it ejects fine just hard to open but I think I noticed where it did scratch the snap cap.I have the gun at the store I'll check again the differences of shell and no shell but I think it was still hard to open without a shell.....I think.
Buzz it's a sidelock
made me appreciate a self opener
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jeweler,
If it is primer contact related, you might try a load with a Fiocchi 616 primer to confirm it. I've several SxSs' without retracting firing pins and when using some primers having harder metal in the primer cup (e.g. Win 209), I'll get enough drag to cause the difficult opening that Mike mentioned. There may be other soft metal primers like the 616, but that one has solved the problem for me in those guns where the firing pin stays in contact with the primer upon opening.
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Monty I would still buy that nasty machine made hammer Parker sense you are moving to the Brit stuff with the London address.
$500??
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Somehow, I thought I was first in line for the Parker hammer gun. Let me know, Monty. Bill Murphy
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sounds like someone sold you his problem gun.....If you have an option to send it back, do it, and tell him to fix it or list it as having this problem.....
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Monty, is this a 12 ga 2 1/2" chamber gun? I've got some Fiocchi primers & I'll load a couple of rounds for you to try Saturday at Capitol.
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Murphy
Your first in line Bill wants me to swap for one of those cheaply made K 80 's that the barrel blows up when you leave a wad in it
I think Mike figured it out ,,,,, the firing pins are too long
monty
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