Smokey

Hey guys, Had a good friend drop off a tired, old Winchester model 12 in 20ga to see if I could help bring her back into good form. The major problem was the pump running all the way forward, well past closing the bolt. After I tore it apart I found that a ring soldered to the mag tube (intended to stop pump travel) had broken loose, so with a bit of blue flame I got that all worked out. On to the current problem. I don't even know if this is a problem or if it's the way it was designed, so I'm looking to the knowledgebase for help. When I threw some dummy rounds in it to function test it I was bothered by the fact that nothing was holding the shells in the magtube. With the bolt all the way closed and locked up, push a shell into the magtube, and unless I lift back up on the carrier, it shoots right back out of the receiver. The shell stop is still there and it comes down when the bolt is opened, so with 2 in the tube I can work the pump, one jumps into place and the second one in the tube is stopped until the bolt is locked up again where it comes to a rest on the carrier. I've never had my hands on one of these before and I'm not sure if someone modified it, or it was just designed that way. Thanks in advance for all the help folks!!! -Shawn

Here's a quick link: http://www.henningshootsguns.com/tech/tech...bettergrip.html Modding the grip like this plays hell with the weak hand portion of the classifier stages at a match, but since that may comprise maybe 3% of you're shooting, it's up to you whether or not it's a hindrance.

I'm qualified...the wife's got a pink AR and there are some photos as proof of me shooting it at a three gun match (though mine did malf big time on an earlier stage so I had an excuse ....that and my buddies wouldn't let me borrow theirs knowing full well I'd have to shoot hers ) So I'm on board!!!

aw damnit.....the last line of the story: "Oh, c'mon, check your calendars, everybody." Gets me every year!!!

Here's a link to an NPR story I heard yesterday on the way home from work: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display...4/01/april_1st/ NO, Not April Fools Briefly it says that just over a million taxpayers this year won't get that $600 rebate check to stimulate the economy. The IRS has decided that they know what you should buy with your money more than you do. Depending on where you live you might get an air conditioner or snow blower instead of that nice big ammo check (the only correct way to spend it imho ). I wasn't aware that they started goose stepping into the office every morning like the Stazi. Yup, screw you taxpayer...you're too stupid to spend your own money so we'll just send you a cheeze ass air conditioner that only cost us $200 and zero for shipping (the article said they tell the post office what to do ) and if you don't like it then stuff it. Do you already have the item that the IRS thinks you should have? Tough, there's no recourse...you're stuck with it. If I happen to be lucky enough to be deemed too stupid to spend my own money (I don't have an adjustable mortgage and am not going bankrupt, silly me ) I'm going to host a "Smokey's Rebate" match where everyone can come down and take shots at the air conditioner I so desperately do not need for a couple of bucks apiece and then one lucky participant will get the honor of riding with me and dropping off the fragments in a large box back at the downtown Chicago IRS office! (Maybe that's not such a good grand prize but I'll be sure to deck you out with a ski mask or guy fawkes mask!!! ) Sorry mods if this is against the "political" policy (I didn't read it that way buy I'm a jailhouse lawyer ) no hard feelings if you need to tear this down just needed to rant a bit :angry2:

Should I take offense to that considering my forum name? Same question still applies: If a women smacks you, hit her back or not?

Einstein Pipe or Cigar?

I haven't had a problem, but I almost never do searches, maybe that's what you mean. EXACTLY RIGHT The search function is pathetic, period. Don't get me wrong, I love the catalog to peruse and drool over, but when I need something specific I'd rather look it up online and be done with it. I also prefer to order online because of all the lengthy ordering I do, tons of small items, that would take 20 minutes to order over the phone. Someone also needs to go over the category breakdowns on the website and actually file things in the right places (sounds like they had the same problem with the catalog and spreading out the barrels all over the place!)

+1 Definitely stop them before they started if it was a club level match.

Scotch for sure (Glenlivet 15 year French Oak Barrel!!!!!!!) 69 Camaro or 70 Chevelle?

I think NJ just repealed that one IIRC. The other state is Oregon....state mandated jobs . Almost got into a fight with the attendant when I started pumping it myself and he came up and told me "Hey! you can't do that!" . Thankfully that was many moons ago when I was 18 and pissed at the world........no longer........aw hell, who am I kidding

Out of powder New York Strip or Ribeye?

"more than words could make me feeeeeeel" :sick: Gary Sucked! I think flex is right about who you were partying to. I heard DLR on the radio when I was younger, but my first concert was For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge...so I voted for SH. Though the best line was: "I like the little way the line runs up the back of the stockings No, no, no, no don't take 'em off. "

Splendid idea!

Sure you will Jim.....Sure . . . . . . . . And I'm a chinese jet pilot