Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire This years Turkey season is done for me

1st Time since 92, deployments, overseas assignments.
Aint gonna pan out for me.
Finger F u c king around with the "BobBrown" musketeer puppeteers Saturday evening.
Oiling down the 835 for upcoming rain.
Break it down/ field strip to oil it up enough to leave finger prints and slippery coat on moving parts.
Discover a hairline crack in the receiver about 3/4" long.
Cerracoat in the barrel channel on receiver shows a crack in the metal
Wasnt their before I got it cerracoated .
I knew this gun when slumlord had it
Worked on polishing the barrel
Got it from slumlord last spring.
I know I would have noticed a oil line darked coloed crack from seepage into it.


Took off my rhino .670 choke
Put in a SSX .670 choke.
Left the adjustable rifle sights on it.
The sims pad.


Went to the gun show yesterday.
Sold it for 275.
Fully disclosed and broke down the gun and showed the crack to a older guy who bought it.
Told him barrel has had forcing cone and barrel polished.
Gave him 9 grand slam shells
The Box of Browning TSS shells i had left
2 hevi 13 # 7,s
The gun case.
We talked about receivers for em
He said he can find another receiver for around 75 to 100 looking around and putting out the word thru his friends.


I dont know if my cerracoat guy dropped the receiver and thought nothing of it and sprayed it and cooked it.
And me running shells thru it patterning it caused it to crack and then I noticed it saturday night.
Just speculation on my part..

Im not gonna mention it to him.
Got a good customer relationship with him.
Dont wanna put doubt into a good thing with the best cerracoat guy around here.


I'm just gonna get a new 935 22" or 24"
Go semi auto.
Put in the rhino choke
Buy a new set of sights
Do the wally world bag and fishing sinker deal in the butt stock and limbsaver pad.
Polish the forcing cone and barrel.

Aint got time to set one up how I want it.
And doing shellology experiments with one right now.

I'm done for this year turkey hunting..

Gonna do some painting around the house outside.
Do the trim painting inside the house.
Get a window outfit over to install 12 new upstairs windows
Get a gutter outfit over here.
Was planning on doing all this after Turkey season.
Back burner projects
Fugg it....
Get started on it while its still kinda cool outside


But I did buy something I can do in chunks of spare time till spring squirrel season from selling the shotgun.



Dogs wanna check out stuff.