I recently purchased a 1969 Belgium made Browning Light Twelve A5 from another TBHer. I wanted to show a little bit of progress I made on it.
I wasn’t looking to do a full factory restoration on this gun, though that may come later on down the line, along with a full length barrel and probably some new wood.
My goal was to just get the gun into operational shape to take out to the field and enjoy!
Here are the original pictures:
What I didn’t notice upon first look was the gap between the stock and receiver! The previous owner did say that it wasn’t functioning and he thought it was a broken firing pin. After I received the gun in the mail, I put it together and function tested it and as he said before, nothing happens when the trigger is pulled. Fidgeting with it for a bit, I found that if I pushed the stock into the receiver, the trigger would set and function... weird.
I took the gun apart and as clean as it was outside, I was surprised to see how grimy and full of junk it was. I spent most of my time cleaning out all of the unburned powder.
A few pics:
The stock was cracked pretty badly up front, I’m sure from the force of being fired loose like it was. The reason I found for the stock being loose was that the hole was egged out and no longer holding tight to the receiver (which I didn’t get a picture of before I started the repair).
Next thing I did was ream out the hole with a 3/8” bit, plug it with a dowel plug from Home Depot then glue that and the crack up. Once the stock was clamped up and the glue setting, I focused on cleaning and inspecting all of the internals for parts worn beyond use. Luckily everything was in pretty good shape!
Pics of stock and cleaned parts:
Next the receiver went back together and everything functioned flawlessly.
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I wasn’t looking to do a full factory restoration on this gun, though that may come later on down the line, along with a full length barrel and probably some new wood.
My goal was to just get the gun into operational shape to take out to the field and enjoy!
Here are the original pictures:
What I didn’t notice upon first look was the gap between the stock and receiver! The previous owner did say that it wasn’t functioning and he thought it was a broken firing pin. After I received the gun in the mail, I put it together and function tested it and as he said before, nothing happens when the trigger is pulled. Fidgeting with it for a bit, I found that if I pushed the stock into the receiver, the trigger would set and function... weird.
I took the gun apart and as clean as it was outside, I was surprised to see how grimy and full of junk it was. I spent most of my time cleaning out all of the unburned powder.
A few pics:
The stock was cracked pretty badly up front, I’m sure from the force of being fired loose like it was. The reason I found for the stock being loose was that the hole was egged out and no longer holding tight to the receiver (which I didn’t get a picture of before I started the repair).
Next thing I did was ream out the hole with a 3/8” bit, plug it with a dowel plug from Home Depot then glue that and the crack up. Once the stock was clamped up and the glue setting, I focused on cleaning and inspecting all of the internals for parts worn beyond use. Luckily everything was in pretty good shape!
Pics of stock and cleaned parts:
Next the receiver went back together and everything functioned flawlessly.
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