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Posted: 4/23/2011 4:58:00 PM EDT
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So I went to the local fun store today and swapped off an old Norinco riot gun for a police trade-in Winchester Defender. Now we had Winchester 1200 trench guns back when I was in the Marines in the late 80's and to be honest, I despised the damn things! We were originally trained on Mossberg M-590s and my only experience prior to the Marines was my dad's old Model 12. I know I wasn't alone in despising the fact that the pump seemed to unlock and blow back out of our hands when they were fired and I hated that feature. To this day I have always been a Mossberg and Remington fan but I figured I'd give the Winchester another try and made the swap.
Being a cop gun, the internals were pretty good shape mechanically. Being a cop gun, it had the numerous dings and scratches as well as a missing buttplate. Being a cop gun also, it was FILTHYinside! I think I spent 2-3 hours and about half a bottle of Hoppe's #9 getting the crud out. I also detail stripped it and found that putting the hammer back in was a PITA trying to get the spring legs to line up right while pressing the hammer down and lining up the pin correctly was NOT a fun task! But it did clean up pretty well and I found a buttplate from Brownell's and got that on order. Never ground down a buttplate before but I guess there's a first time for everything (sort of like detail stripping that damned trigger group was) so I'll give that a try. Haven't had a chance to try it yet but I'm hoping to get past the bias I have against them that I carried over from my M-1200 trench gun days. |
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