I bought an AYA No. 2 .... It turned out that the firing pins were not hardened properly, if at all....
Spain has no monopoly on this.
I have first hand experience that Krieghoff cannot make firing pins that last. They crater, get sharp, and pierce primers. Krieghoff blames the primers.
Buddy of mine has an ICD that cost him a small fortune. The pins were brittle and failed within a year.
The only Spanish made gun I have currently was made by Ugartechea in the early 1970's. It has never misfired and has the original firing pins. The triggers are good.
The worst internals I've ever seen in a shotgun not surprisingly belonged to a Huglu 'GI Special' that some unfortunate soldier brought back from a tour in the sandbox. The gun is unserviceable as delivered and cannot be fixed.
Don't bash Turkish guns here though, you will hear what a great value they represent and how much they've improved recently under the Erdogan regime.
Yet, the universal Spanish gun 'soft metal' problems from 50 years ago are still regarded as fact.
