Casing a DHE - Top Lever Stays Over Right

[Scott Gentry]

If you push top lever slightly to the right then push down on trip lever should return to center. Is important to do this before placed in case to avoid lever damage/breakage while stored in case. If this doesn’t work you need to get to smith.

[Cahaba_Boxlock]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

well, not being a wise guy

but the lever stays right because it is supposed to - it needs to be there to reassemble the gun of course

why do you need to release it to case the gun? what type of case?

It's a Winchester case sent with the repro.

Originally Posted by Scott Gentry

If you push top lever slightly to the right then push down on trip lever should return to center. Is important to do this before placed in case to avoid lever damage/breakage while stored in case. If this doesn’t work you need to get to smith.

Thanks. Just never ran into this on some other SxS like my BSS's. I figured it can't be good to store something under tension since over time it may weaken. I wasn't knocking 'em.

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by David Verhine

It's a Winchester case sent with the repro.

Technically speaking, your Parker Reproduction case was made and supplied by an Italian firm named Emmebi. And if we're going to be speaking technical , the snap caps that are in your case, I do not believe, are the snap caps that were originally supplied with the gun. To my knowledge, original Parker Reproduction snap caps were stamped "PARKER Reproduction" (not Winchester) and were made and supplied by Parker-Hale in the UK.

I don't quite understand why you cannot close the lid on your case with the toplever locked to the right? Although I typically release the toplever when casing my guns in their original cases, nonetheless; all lids have still been able to be closed with the toplever cocked.