HELP - Ejector problem?

[BRDHNTR]

Was at the range today shooting my first round of trap with my 12 ga. DHE. After several rounds fired, the gun would not break open fully, nor close (as best I recall). I was able to remove the fore end from the barrels and separate the barrels from the frame. Put the barrels back on the frame and closed the breech with no issue but fore end would not go back on.

The extractors/ejectors that are housed inside the barrels slide fine. I'm thinking that there's something amiss with the ejector mechanism inside the fore end.

Have taken pictures of the parts, just in case some one more knowledgeable than me may have some insight. Any thoughts/suggestions?

[Jeff K.]

Looks to me like the ejector hammers need to be cocked. That is usually the problem.

[Patrick Butler]

If you search this forum you can find out how to push back and cock the ejectors one at a time. The corner of a wood workbench works, but be careful. Those springs are strong. The hammers must also be cocked to install the forend. You can also fing how to do that here. Needless to say, but I will, never try to force on a forend and always press down behind the latch, to avoid breaking the wood.

If you have any problems, a good double gun smith is a lot cheeper than a replacement for- end.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...jector+cocking

Also, if the firing pin hammers are uncocked, see B Dudley's response #5 to this thread:

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...hlight=ejector

Best,
Patrick Butler

[BRDHNTR]

Gents, I read Dennis Potters text on this subject and was able to re-cock the ejectors without any difficulty. I then put the barrels back on the frame, re-attached the fore end and placed two snap caps in the chambers and proceeded to dry fire the gun twice. Both times the ejectors worked fine with no problem.

But this leaves me still wandering in the wilderness. Why didn't the hammers re-cock when I was at the range shooting? And is this event likely to occur again? Do I still need to have a competent 'smith' like Dan Cullity (who lives 8 miles from me or less) take the fore end components apart and inspect? Got a 1000 bird Tower Shoot at Markover on Dec 10 and I was planning to take this 31 inch barreled DHE along with another Parker as backup.

Patrick, thanks

[Richard Flanders]

Maybe the ejector system is a tad worn and you didn't open the guite enough to cock them? I have a VH12 that has to be opened all the way or the hammers won't cock.

[BRDHNTR]

Don't know Richard, I'll take it to the range tomorrow and shoot it and see if the same thing happens. All I remember is that when this happened today at the range, the gun would not break open all the way and recock. I had to remove the fore end in order for the barrels to be released .

[charlie cleveland]

could have been a shell that was swelled a little bit or the brass was a little oversize..this would make the gun hard to cock was the spent shells eject ok when this happened...charlie

[BRDHNTR]

Charlie, I was shooting 1 oz reloads. I don't recall the shells being ejected as the gun would not break open all the way. I think I pulled the spent shells out after the fore end was removed and I could get the barrels off the frame. We'll see if it happens again tomorrow. I'll say an extra prayer in church before I go to the range,

[Dean Romig]

I think those are two separate and unrelated problems.

The reason that the gun wouldn't open might remain a mystery but removing the forend after the gun was fired and not fully opening the gun before removing it is what caused the non-cocking of the ejector hammers.

If it happens again that you can't open the gun you should go to a different shell.





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[BRDHNTR]

Thanks Dean. Actually, I was going to take some RST loads tomorrow and shoot them to see if there was a problem. We'll see