Yildiz shotguns are junk!!!!

[MASTERS]

My brother in law purchased a new yildiz shotgun from academy because he liked the way my beretta 687 silver pigeon III and his dads winchester 101 shot (he pretty much just wanted to have an over and under but being a senior at TAMU was on a budget). I told him from the get go you get what you pay for. About two weeks into shooting clays he was pretty good at busting them but the top ejector started to stick. No mater what he tried it would only work about half the time. We would give him a hard time about his yildiz junk but he was prideful and persistent. Yesterday while wearing the white wings out all hell about broke loose. He said a bird came over and on his first shot he didn't notice anything but on his second shot the gun literally came apart. His forearm has some powder burn but that's about it, thankfully it didn't shoot his hand off or the powder burn didn't blind him!!! Needless to say he's done with the cheep yildiz junk! He contacted Academy and they said that all firearm sales are final. He will have to have a ffl licensed person send it back. What poor product and now customer service! Watch out for all of you that own these pieces of junk, as we are very thankful that this didn't end up much worse than it did.

[JEG8233]

Glad he is okay. That could've been real bad. Hopefully the firearms manufacturer will make it right by him.

[hully1029]

Wow! Glad it wasnt worse! But, on the flip side, thats the first time I've heard a bad thing about em.

[Stan R]

Glad he was not hurt.

There was a thread the other day on how good these were.

You do not need a FFL to ship a firearm back to the factory for repair work

[oktx]

Wow. That could have been real bad. Let us know what Yildiz does about it.

[MacYak]

I have the same gun and it is awesome

Sorry about the bad luck with that one

[bowhunterhelm]

Wow, I wonder what caused it to break.

[MASTERS]

We don't know. He was shooting Winchester AA's through it from the get go

[ColinR]

No ffl needed to send it back, just ups. And I to will be curious as to how they handle this. I bet they replace it at no charge as I have not heard one bad thing about them.....well till now.

[MASTERS]

That's what an Academy representative told him. He said he was going to take it to David at Durys gun shop. So we'll see.....

[Skullworks52]

Wow, I wonder what caused it to break.

Barrels are sweated/soldered to the block. Probably not cleaned properly before they went through the joining process.

[bboswell]

Briley in Houston is the authorized repair center for Yildez.

I'm thinking he had something plugging his barrel.

[Nova]

Maybe a wad was stuck in the barrell?

[oktx]

He needs to call Yildiz Monday morning and be very stern with them.

[Mayhem]

i think he had a wad stuck in the barrel. Briley does are the warranty work on them.