doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Fudd buys a prehistoric Krieghoff Model 32 Skeet.

Fudd has questions.

26-inchish tubes. That weird red-stained wood.

The shotgun bears a three-digit serial, 6xx, very early production; has what appears to be a Remington Model 32 trigger (round push-button barrel selector, not the sailboat-rudder selector the later Krieghoffs have, and definitely not a Miller trigger), and it locks up as tight as a... Well, there's no rattle nor glimmer of light when the thing's assembled.

I have detailed function-related questions for anyone who has hands-on experience with original Remington Model 32s or Pleistocene-era Krieghoff Model 32s. If you'd be so kind as to chime in, I'll be beholden.

I’ve owned a Remington 32 and a San Remo Grade Krieghoff 32. Both were trap guns. The Krieghoff 32 had the blood red stock that you allude to. The Remington 32 is older than the Krieghoff; it’s pre-war. They are very similar guns but the Krieghoff is not a copy of the Remington, particularly the internals.
The Krieghoff 32 is a very nice gun and not in the least inferior to the more modern K-80(which I also own at present).

Thank you. Regarding the barrel selector: When the button is pushed left to slect bottom barrel, I pull the trigger twice and get two clicks. However, with the button pushed right to select top barrel, I pull the trigger, get a click, pull it again, and get nothing. I plan to shoot the thing for the first time this coming weekend, and definitely intend to send it to a Krieghoff service shop for an overhaul, but should I consider even shooting it at all before I do that? Does this sound like an unsafe situation, as in, do I risk doubling or fan-firing, or one that live-firing might make worse?

As I am unable to actually examine the gun, I’ll offer no advice. I suggest you take it to a competent gunsmith prior to shooting it.

That is actually advice, and very good advice, at that. I shall do so. Already in contact with my closest Krieghoff authorized repair shop about how to send it to them.

I have a Superposed Lightning Skeet I can bother the porcelain penguins with in the meantime.

Thank you from Canadia!

So, when you move the button to the right and only get one click is it firing the top barrel or the bottom barrel? Is it possible that it is supposed to be that way?

I don't know! Short of firing live rounds in my apartment, which I understand is discouraged in my municipal bylaws, I've got no idea how to tell for sure which barrel is firing!

I take empty hulls or snap caps and put a small piece of masking tape over the primers. That way you can see the hole in the primer in the barrel it is firing.

I have a K 32 with k80 trap wood ported bottom barrel it is a great gun it changed how many targets I broke my scores went up the stock is adjustable.

A lot of people who shoot over under shotguns, like to use the bottom barrel when they are only using one barrel - as you would do in trap shooting. I know absolutely nothing about Krieghoffs, but I am just asking if it is firing the bottom barrel automatically when it/you are just using one barrel? You see what I mean?