Dultimatpredator
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I have a turkey edition browning gold 10 gauge. I bought new. Think it was maybe around 96 or 97? I remember I bought the original 30 inch gold stalker when it first came out in 10 gauge and traded it the next year or year and a half for the light 30” version. Then I traded it in for the turkey edition and it had ever since. I put a saddle on it at the time and a red dot. The year before last when I was sighting it in and changing optics to a Holosun green dot with the shake and wake feature I had a bunch of white plastic pieces shattering and came out of the action. The bolt handle flew out as well. Itended up being The white plastic spring follower that shattered. Must’ve shifted the optic saddle mount from the vibration. Bolt handle hit on the optic saddle and flew out. Replaced the plastic follower and never replaced the red colored buffer because it looked good at the time. After replacing the bolt handle having it come out a few times, and luckily finding it, I realized it was hitting on the saddle. I made the action slot in the optic saddle wider. It took care of the handle flying out when shooting. So yesterday, I took it out hunting after giving it a thorough cleaning. The bolt shut closed, but the follower stayed open about 3/4 of an inch. I lubed in between those joints and worked it back-and-forth quite a bit and it got better. I did notice there is a gouge right at the end of the receivers where the barrel meets up to so something funky happened at one point a time. I don’t see that being the issue though. When I take it apart, I will lightly file it smooth and put some Oxpho blue on it to see if there’s any rubbing. So when I got home from hunting yesterday and not using that gun and luckily, I had another another one with me. Took the barrel out and found little pieces of dull red plastic that I would assume was the buffer. The slide will completely shut if there is no ammo in the gun as intended. I also cleaned out the magazine tube in case there was loose buffer in it…which was my guess because the shells I use didn’t lose any buffer. I did feel some grit and debris when cleaning out the magazine tube. I also noticed there were a little red pieces of plastic that came out of my action so that tells me the buffer is shattering. It looked fine when I replaced the follower and took it all apart last year and I didn’t want to spend the extra 55 bucks versus five dollars for just the buffer…that I couldn’t find at the time. The buffer itself, used to cost $3/$5, when available. It’s now been Discontinued and now only offered in a complete assembly…and their back ordered at Browning. I found one in stock at Midwest gun Works and got it ordered up. Just wondering if anybody had some extra buffers (without the plate) they would part with? it use to cost approximately 11 buffers for the price of the complete assembly. Makes zero sense why browning offers it only with the metal plate (that never fails) now. It’d be nice to have one or two extra on hand for my gun. This is what they look like if anybody knows of anybody that has a few extras laying around the part with.
what it was doing…
This is what a shell looked like after working the action back and forth trying to get the bolt work properly in the field after spraying some Rem oil on the bolt group and action. I didn’t realize the buffer was coming apart at the time and thought that maybe there was a burr or it was gummed up so I just kept working it back-and-forth until it started shutting by itself 99% of the time.
what it was doing…
This is what a shell looked like after working the action back and forth trying to get the bolt work properly in the field after spraying some Rem oil on the bolt group and action. I didn’t realize the buffer was coming apart at the time and thought that maybe there was a burr or it was gummed up so I just kept working it back-and-forth until it started shutting by itself 99% of the time.
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