[Bruce Day]

So, maybe 100 years ago?

There is a good gunsmith at Kiowa Creek Sporting Clays east of Denver.

To reiterate cleaning from externally. Using the Rem Action cleaner tube, insertthe spray tube into the hammer nose holes in th e standing breech and spray a LOT in there. Spray around the trigger slots, a LOT. Stand the action stock up and pointing down, let it all run out and keep draining. Repeat the next day.

Take the gun out and shoot it with the same loads that caused it to double before.

If it still doubles, the action needs to come apart. If you want to try it fine, with caution and the right tools and using the disassembly instructions posted here many many times. If not, off to the gunsmith.


By the way, Brian. I have had two guns that doubled. I clean my guns that get shot a couple times a year with Rem Action Cleaner as preventative medicine, so I don't have many problems. A PHE 16ga with about 60,000 to 80,000 rounds through it kept doubling and it was off to DelGrego who fixed it by recutting the sears. The second gun was a DHE 20/32 that doubled with 1 oz loads. Turned out to be merely gummed up and cleaning solved it. Almost all the time a gun is just gummed up unless its had a whole lot of rounds through it. When I first got the PHE some 40 years ago, of course I oiled the triggers and if some oil was good, more oil was better, so they gummed up badly and an old gunsmith ( the famous Rudy Kautzky ) gave me what for, and I've never done that again.