Shotgun Problems

[Tinweasle]

Hi, Talking to a friend a few days ago and I was invited out after woody's, long story short I want to take my Macnab lowlander U/O as I havent used it for a couple of years. When I got home I thought I would give it a clean, put the snap caps in the chambers, slid off the safty and pulled the triger firing the first barrel but when I went to fire the second barrel I found I had to put the safty back on and off again, its the same if the top or bottom barrel is fired first, now I have no skills as a gun smith so I will have to send it away to be fixed but has anyone got an idear what the problem may be?

Many thanks

Shaun

 

[johnnytheboy]

My Beretta does that as well, the recoil resets the barrel selector some how or other, if i bump it on the ground to simulate a fired shell it selects the next chamber.

Dont know how or why it does it but thats the way it is designed as I checked this when i first got it. I was firing the snap caps and couldnt get the other one to fire, I was worried i bought a dodgy gun, luckily thats the way they are!!

 

[treelore]

jonny is spot on, both my berettas do the same, the use recoil to reset the firing pin, like jonnys says just tap it on the floor. i use and old camping pillow and tap the but of the gun twice..

 

[Tinweasle]

Cheers for that, I should really get with the times and learn how moden stuff works but I do like my old hammer guns!

 

[Buckshot]

Many OUs use the recoil to set the second trigger
A tap on the but of the gun using the heel of the handshould be enough to set it and allow the other barrel to go off.

Mark