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Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:40 am
Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:44 am
gun nut wrote:It sounds like you are saying the top barrel would not fire at all for you sometimes but was ok for your nephew???
IIRC Silver Pigeons are inertia block operated and it is not uncommon for one person to have a problem with them not resetting to the second barrel while others can use it without any problems.
This tends to be worse with low powered, light clay loads that don't have enough ummppphhh to reset the block.
If you answer Coldfingers questions we should be able to give you a better diagnosis!
Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:06 am
humperdingle wrote:gun nut wrote:It sounds like you are saying the top barrel would not fire at all for you sometimes but was ok for your nephew???
IIRC Silver Pigeons are inertia block operated and it is not uncommon for one person to have a problem with them not resetting to the second barrel while others can use it without any problems.
This tends to be worse with low powered, light clay loads that don't have enough ummppphhh to reset the block.
If you answer Coldfingers questions we should be able to give you a better diagnosis!
That would be my 1st guess... Poor mount or too much soft padding at recoil pad will often stop pin resetting.
Mon Jan 28, 2013 12:39 pm
Buffy Vampire Slayer wrote:humperdingle wrote:gun nut wrote:It sounds like you are saying the top barrel would not fire at all for you sometimes but was ok for your nephew???
IIRC Silver Pigeons are inertia block operated and it is not uncommon for one person to have a problem with them not resetting to the second barrel while others can use it without any problems.
This tends to be worse with low powered, light clay loads that don't have enough ummppphhh to reset the block.
If you answer Coldfingers questions we should be able to give you a better diagnosis!
That would be my 1st guess... Poor mount or too much soft padding at recoil pad will often stop pin resetting.
really
i`ve never come across this happening,even if i`ve fired a o&u unmounted just held in my hands in order to get a bit of "flight action" going when the shooting has been slack
Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:07 pm
Buffy Vampire Slayer wrote:humperdingle wrote:gun nut wrote:It sounds like you are saying the top barrel would not fire at all for you sometimes but was ok for your nephew???
IIRC Silver Pigeons are inertia block operated and it is not uncommon for one person to have a problem with them not resetting to the second barrel while others can use it without any problems.
This tends to be worse with low powered, light clay loads that don't have enough ummppphhh to reset the block.
If you answer Coldfingers questions we should be able to give you a better diagnosis!
That would be my 1st guess... Poor mount or too much soft padding at recoil pad will often stop pin resetting.
really
i`ve never come across this happening,even if i`ve fired a o&u unmounted just held in my hands in order to get a bit of "flight action" going when the shooting has been slack
Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:13 pm
Sidebyside wrote:Buffy Vampire Slayer wrote:humperdingle wrote:gun nut wrote:It sounds like you are saying the top barrel would not fire at all for you sometimes but was ok for your nephew???
IIRC Silver Pigeons are inertia block operated and it is not uncommon for one person to have a problem with them not resetting to the second barrel while others can use it without any problems.
This tends to be worse with low powered, light clay loads that don't have enough ummppphhh to reset the block.
If you answer Coldfingers questions we should be able to give you a better diagnosis!
That would be my 1st guess... Poor mount or too much soft padding at recoil pad will often stop pin resetting.
really
i`ve never come across this happening,even if i`ve fired a o&u unmounted just held in my hands in order to get a bit of "flight action" going when the shooting has been slack
I must admit I too have never come across that , I would have thought for that situation to arise the gun itself has a very inadequate mechanism , If that was the case using snap caps would be a no no as the next time you loaded with cartridges it wouldn't be cocked , or am I missing your point here .
Mon Jan 28, 2013 2:50 pm
Mon Jan 28, 2013 2:58 pm
Headbanger wrote:Hi all.
Whilst shooting some clays earlier today I had a problem with the top barrel not firing.
My nephew had no problems using my gun, I must have had 7 or 8 cartridges which wouldn't fire, we shot 100 cartridges between us.
Is this something I should worry about on a 7 month old gun? I guess it's either me loading incorrectly (unlikely as this is pretty straight forward even for me), the cartridges (possible, as we use the cheapest) or the gun (hope not, don't want to send it off somewhere)!
Any ideas before I phone Avalon guns tomorrow?
Many thanks in advance
Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:13 pm
Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:37 pm
humperdingle wrote:You can bang on the end of the recoil pad to reset for 2nd barrel on this type.
Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:17 am
Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:56 am