Gun Won't Open

[Big D]

At 6'4", 240, I think I'm in shape.

Round is a shape, isn't it?

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by John Dallas

At 6'4", 240, I think I'm in shape.

Round is a shape, isn't it?

Yep and if your happy and healthy who cares. That was my thinking before I just stumbled or strolled into something that happened to me. I was not even looking or trying to lose weight, didn't care, it just happened. What happened for me might not work or be a solution for anyone else. There is no magic pill and I am not endorsing or promoting anything. I just changed some habits from what I was doing at minimal effort. Heck I think it was similar to when I stumbled into a shooting instructor at a client event years ago that changed they way I prepared before each shot and gun positioning. Shot in front of the instructor and hit 20 in a row on going away shots and then he said I was doing it wrong.

BTW not trying to derail topic was just going along with Edgar and his disarming parody.

I'll leave it at this.

"Fat, Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life son"

Dean Wormier, Animal House

[Harry Collins]

I appreciate all the kind words of encouragement and advice. Believe me I tried it all and now know three dozen ways not to do it. The stock, I believe, is original to the gun as the serial numbers are under the trigger guard bow and it looks like Parker inletting. There is darkness from oil, but it does not show through and the wood is not punk. Here is what I did:
1) Reversed the trigger spring to push the triggers forward
2) Rounded the front of the Safety Tab
3) Backed the front tang screw sleeve out a half turn to index the screw (it was 1/4 turn past center)
Again thanks to all for sharing your experience and knowledge.
Harry

[Southpaw]

Harry, did that all work. BTW all my family is from Winchester and Richmond.

[Harry Collins]

Todd, it did indeed work. I'm shooting wobble trap this afternoon with the owner of the gun. I have way too much time in this gun. I thought It would be an hours work and he could have the gun back the next day. Like most everything else I've tried it just didn't turn out as I had expected. We agreed beforehand that if I couldn't fix it he would send it off to be fixed. I'll find out soon. Do you ever come this way to visit?
Harry

[Southpaw]

Its been a few years. All grandparents have passed and still have relatives in that area and some family land but nothing big and uncles and cousins that still live in that area sort of take it on. Everyone is spread out and I live in Atlanta, but deep down that is home since born there and those are my roots. Both sides of family date back in that area from early to mid 1800's that much I know and I think some on maternal side go back to 1700's. Lord I could go on and on about stories in that area. As a kid spent a lot time there around Xmas so we would go bang around hunting quail mostly in the Richmond area on mother's side of family that had a couple of hundred acre farm that attached to other relatives and close friends of family property. Those days hunting around there are sadly over.

Go drink a cold Ale8 for me and shoot that gun, if you happen to mix with it with a little bourbon afterward, even better, can't get more kentucky then that. BTW I was at the Greenbrier resort a year or so ago and they claimed to be place that invented the mint julep and won't argue it but I still have my wild mint growing that I got from the farm along the creek from Richmond, I think it makes the best julep. I don't care what bourbon you prefer in a julep but if you don't use the right mint as intended, it's just not right.

[Ruff Hunter]

I would have glass bedded the action with the tang screw backed off to the point where everything worked fine, thereby reestablishing the original stock dimensions. Since I have not read otherwise, I am under the impression that the action and the wood surfaces are still properly mated when the tang screw is loosened. Then obtain a replacement tang screw from CSMC and fit it to the action so it would be both tight and properly indexed. From what I am reading, it seems like that would have solved the problem without reversing springs or filing triggers.

[Harry Collins]

Sadly the shoot was called off and we didn't get to test the Parker Sunday. I have to go to the VA this afternoon and afterward I will go to my tool & die man to find the thread on the rear tang screw. He may have one lying around. Justin and I were thinking the same thing on this.

Harry