as the Fates might have it, i came into a old, rusty 16 ga model 97 shotgun.
it belonged to a young guy's grandfather. it was passed on to him after it sat in a damp basement for a spell. it was no pristine beauty trust me on that. but it did shoot.
i bought the group of sad sacks from the young guy because his double wide trailer pymnt was more important to him than a rack of rusty as hell long-guns.
in short, i bought a box of 23/4 in. shells, maybe federal for it. it'd feed, chamber, fire, extract, etc. but it would NOT eject smoothly. very awkward or un-slick.
is it an early model that uses 2 1/2 inch shells or not? i could jerk the forearm bar, and the hulls would eject but they would eject slowly and poorly. it definitely would not spit them out. it's almost like the ejection port was too short. but it would eject with a hard enough pull on the forearm. the spent shell extracted from the chamber without a glitch. i shot it 3 times and put it up.
what to do?
