Looseness in a Daly/Sauer - 10/13/15 06:08 PM
I have a Sauer/Daly 16ga SxS built around 1904 that has a slight clicking noise when you shake it and was wondering what the options are.
It will close very tightly on a piece of notepad paper placed between a barrel and the breech face, and that is enough to stop the clicking/looseness. It will not close on two pieces of paper. It has the rattle with or without the forend being in place. Placing a single sliver of paper on the forward part of the watertable and closing the gun also solves the problem (won't close if the piece of paper is at the rear of the water table).
Ignoring the obvious solution of walking around with the notepad paper in place I was wondering what others experience were with this.
It will close very tightly on a piece of notepad paper placed between a barrel and the breech face, and that is enough to stop the clicking/looseness. It will not close on two pieces of paper. It has the rattle with or without the forend being in place. Placing a single sliver of paper on the forward part of the watertable and closing the gun also solves the problem (won't close if the piece of paper is at the rear of the water table).
Ignoring the obvious solution of walking around with the notepad paper in place I was wondering what others experience were with this.