Post by Big Joe on Apr 15, 2018 14:05:43 GMT -5
Ok, I was presented a small job --- LOL yeah right. One of the older men at church gave his grandson an Austrian O/U in 28ga and the boy took it apart.... Not just broke it down for cleaning but broke it down to the tiny pieces. Well they took it to a local smith and he has it all back together but now it wont pattern for squat. I was told before it was the near perfect skeet gun and now your lucky to hit the wall if fired inside a building. The old man knows I mess with rifles and he thinks I can do something with this one. I ask why they didn't take it back to the smith -- long story short -- he doesn't ever want to see it again, he under charged for the job I think and then he had to hunt diagrams and schematics to get it back together. The kid was moving it from their vehicle to mine and the old man told me not to be in a rush the boy needs to learn a lesson and he (the boy) is going to pay me for my time so keep records of it. He also said he remembers when he bought it their was something said about it having eccentric chokes. I am not a real shotgun person so anyone got a lead. I can say the chokes screw in and the upper one has a single hash mark on it and the lower has a double hash mark.
I have done nothing but look it over and it looks very well fitted and it is lightly engraved, not fancy but still not plain either. It does have some super fine wood, I am almost wanting to wrap it in something to make sure I don't scratch it. Its got a short pull on it so if I try to shoot it I will need to put a slip on pad with possibly a spacer in it. Does anyone know about the eccentric chokes, from what I have dug up so far they are also called offset chokes. I can set where they would be handy on doubles or to try to adjust POA on a shotgun. I just never heard of them before, we only have a few shotguns with screw in chokes as it is. I suppose I should do as the old man ask and just put it away for a month or so then worry about it... I can see breaking one down to clean but to tear it down completely is not even something some smiths would do unless they had prior experience with one of the same make. Would be like me tearing a Toyota down -- sure they work the same but trust me they are not put together the same... I mean as a kid I had both rear engine Corviars and VWs and they may be close but I screwed the first VW up to a point of salvage thinking it would be like the Corvair engines.