Post by Mr. Polecat on Dec 22, 2013 0:29:18 GMT -5
Howdy y'all. Earlier today, I picked up another 24, this one an S-C in .22LR over 20ga 3", with the barrels soldered the whole length. It's a little rough, but the shotgun regulation is only 1" low with slugs at 25 yd, so I snapped it up.
It has some rust, and I am trying to figure out how to drop the trigger group so that I can clean the internals. This one is of a way different design than the tang-break ones. The mainspring and all that are all hidden away inside, instead of being exposed when the stock is removed like my other 24s.
It kind of looks like I probably need to drift out the pin that is pointed to by the red arrow, and then the trigger group will pivot and drop out as a unit? I want to be sure I don't drift out the wrong thing here and cause myself a huge headache and/or break things...
The forearm arrangement is very interesting. The wood comes back and covers the pivot pin.
Also, shotgun shells are very, very difficult to extract once fired. It doesn't seem to matter what height brass. The gun requires a good shake to get the extractor to break them loose, and then significant force to pull them out. But it doesn't look like the brass is bulged overly. Indeed, compared to another 24 (I'm not sure which one), the brass in this gun's chamber seems to actually be expanding slightly less!
Should I be worried about this??? I've never had a shotgun do this before.
Measurement of fired brass from a 24 that does not exhibit this problem:
Measurement of brass from this gun, which does exhibit the problem:
Looks like it dates to '65. No serial number.
It has some rust, and I am trying to figure out how to drop the trigger group so that I can clean the internals. This one is of a way different design than the tang-break ones. The mainspring and all that are all hidden away inside, instead of being exposed when the stock is removed like my other 24s.
It kind of looks like I probably need to drift out the pin that is pointed to by the red arrow, and then the trigger group will pivot and drop out as a unit? I want to be sure I don't drift out the wrong thing here and cause myself a huge headache and/or break things...
The forearm arrangement is very interesting. The wood comes back and covers the pivot pin.
Also, shotgun shells are very, very difficult to extract once fired. It doesn't seem to matter what height brass. The gun requires a good shake to get the extractor to break them loose, and then significant force to pull them out. But it doesn't look like the brass is bulged overly. Indeed, compared to another 24 (I'm not sure which one), the brass in this gun's chamber seems to actually be expanding slightly less!
Should I be worried about this??? I've never had a shotgun do this before.
Measurement of fired brass from a 24 that does not exhibit this problem:
Measurement of brass from this gun, which does exhibit the problem:
Looks like it dates to '65. No serial number.
