Thoughts anyone?

[Bill Murphy]

It apparently is not a 28 gauge. But the fact that it is a two barrel set makes my repair suggestion not so good. Of course, there are worse solutions than having two sets of barrels without extension ribs.

[James Palmer]

Thanks all for the comments. I owned the gun for some time and fired it very little. Passed on to a friend and the first time he dropped in some snap caps fired. Ejectors fired and poof....off it came. After examining closely we believe belief this is a very old repair done poorly.

It is a 12 ga GHE 2 barrel set. 32 and 30. This happened on the 30 inchers. I'm still at a loss as to what would cause something like this in the first place.

I appreciate all the suggestions. Here are some additional pics.

James

[B. Dudley]

The extension is lifted and you can see that the guide cuts are distorted to one side. The gun has suffered some trauma in the past. Likely the barrels got dropped or the extension banged around and seriously damaged. And then Repaired. And that repair has now failed.

[Spin Drift]

Edgar and Brian are most likely the winners in this guess-a-thon. The rusted location and then the darker areas and the the lighter areas show the progression of the failure. High stress induced fatigue failures usually present this way. (another guess is that the 30 inchers were dropped on the dolls head) It would be my guess that the screw was the last thing holding this all together and finally gave up the ghost to the ejector springs.

A two long barrel set should be fixed and I'm sure that there are Parkersmiths that can do this work. As we say in engineering: problems can be solved, all it takes is time and money.

[BRDHNTR]

James, just pick a competent gunsmith and ship the gun out to get properly repaired. You wont be sorry. The gun is worth it. Stop agonizing over it and get it repaired. You won't be disappointed and neither will any of us.

[James Palmer]

Thanks everyone. I'll let u know how it goes.