My Walmart is now selling 16 gauge ammo

[Rastus]

Nice story about family being blessed and affirmed by inheritance Peg.  I hope you got to shoot that 16 gauge again.

My first shotgun I shot was my .410 Topper at age 12.  The ejector broke maybe 4-5 years after I got it.  It still shot and ejected I just had to make certain I didn't lose the broken part....which a few years later fell out when someone wasn't looking.

I have been looking for a replacement for 25 years and Numrich's finally got one recently.  I just got it in the mail last week...hope to fix the old girl this weekend and take her out again.

[PegLeg45]

Nice story about family being blessed and affirmed by inheritance Peg.  I hope you got to shoot that 16 gauge again.

My first shotgun I shot was my .410 Topper at age 12.  The ejector broke maybe 4-5 years after I got it.  It still shot and ejected I just had to make certain I didn't lose the broken part....which a few years later fell out when someone wasn't looking.

I have been looking for a replacement for 25 years and Numrich's finally got one recently.  I just got it in the mail last week...hope to fix the old girl this weekend and take her out again.

Fantastic, hope you get it done.

I can shoot the 1100 any time....my son built his house a hundred yards away. 

That Ithaca 66 I mentioned has a "repair" story (I may have posted it on here before). After my uncle died, when my aunt called us over to get the guns, my dad asked me if he could use the .410 to shoot squirrels out of our pecan grove. My dad was never a gun guy (had nothing against them and had owned some in the past) so I said sure plug away at 'em and I'll get the gun sometime in the future.
Well, first thing he did was jump on his golf cart with the shotgun and drove over to his house and when he went into the garage the tip of the barrel was hanging off the seat and caught on the center support post and bent in a perfectly sweeping 45° bend.
I was heart-broken after realizing barrels were few and far between.
We have a neighbor about a mile or so down the road that retired from the machine shop at the company we worked for and he runs a gunsmithing business. So my dad carries it down there and I figure there ain't a snowball in hell chance of salvaging that barrel. But, I was wrong. the neighbor straightened it in a special jig and you can not look at it and tell it was ever bent.

[Big Frank]

Fantastic, hope you get it done.

I can shoot the 1100 any time....my son built his house a hundred yards away. 

That Ithaca 66 I mentioned has a "repair" story (I may have posted it on here before). After my uncle died, when my aunt called us over to get the guns, my dad asked me if he could use the .410 to shoot squirrels out of our pecan grove. My dad was never a gun guy (had nothing against them and had owned some in the past) so I said sure plug away at 'em and I'll get the gun sometime in the future.
Well, first thing he did was jump on his golf cart with the shotgun and drove over to his house and when he went into the garage the tip of the barrel was hanging off the seat and caught on the center support post and bent in a perfectly sweeping 45° bend.
I was heart-broken after realizing barrels were few and far between.
We have a neighbor about a mile or so down the road that retired from the machine shop at the company we worked for and he runs a gunsmithing business. So my dad carries it down there and I figure there ain't a snowball in hell chance of salvaging that barrel. But, I was wrong. the neighbor straightened it in a special jig and you can not look at it and tell it was ever bent.

That's amazing. When I got a small ding in a shotgun barrel I used that as an excuse to hack several inches off it.

[Rastus]

I would be wondering about shooting that barrel after working the metal that much.  Unfounded fear I guess.

Well, no I won't be working on my .410 this weekend.  At least not today.  We have a Christmas party to go to...dang.

[PegLeg45]

It shoots fine.
The bend was sweeping and far enough out from the chamber that I don't think pressure issues are a concern (also the smith's opinion). He used a jig with smooth rollers that basically works in reverse of one of those rolling tubing benders.

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