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Rifles we wish we've never sold, and WHY!
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<blockquote data-quote="Vaughng" data-source="post: 1896902" data-attributes="member: 114076"><p>Mine was for a different reason I bought a Pedersoli 1886/71 and from the moment I opened the box I fell in love, that was until I came to use it. It had so much headspace (017 inch)that it never did fire off a primer on the first strike( pedersoli's response was to send me a longer firing pin they assured me it was safe to fire. It would not feed if you stroked the lever quickly it would eject the 45/70 loaded round out of the rifle onto the ground, It was in reality a model 71 not an 1886,, It did not have John Brownings magical hook that retained the cartridges and made them behave and this wa s a fundamental design fault, I can see someone getting injured with this oversight. It had extraction issues, the short extractor was not as good as the original, it had 3 other feeding issues I had to go so far as threatened legal action to get a refund now I have a Winchester Miroku 1886 and I could not be happier with it , except for the stupid lawyered up trigger and safety catch so I replaced the trigger and hammer with a Browning Parts no easy feat living in Australia , now the trigger lets off nicely but overall the quality of the rifle was really great, Headspace was .002 inch. I do not think Pedersoli understood the reasons why Winchester only ever built the mod 71 in 348 Winchester, it was to get away from the heavier bullets and a fatter 348 case prevented the case rolling around in the action causing lockups, still I wish I could have bought an 1886 Browning model that would have been the ultimate 1886</p><p> Vaughn Gunthorpe</p><p>Plainland Australia</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vaughng, post: 1896902, member: 114076"] Mine was for a different reason I bought a Pedersoli 1886/71 and from the moment I opened the box I fell in love, that was until I came to use it. It had so much headspace (017 inch)that it never did fire off a primer on the first strike( pedersoli's response was to send me a longer firing pin they assured me it was safe to fire. It would not feed if you stroked the lever quickly it would eject the 45/70 loaded round out of the rifle onto the ground, It was in reality a model 71 not an 1886,, It did not have John Brownings magical hook that retained the cartridges and made them behave and this wa s a fundamental design fault, I can see someone getting injured with this oversight. It had extraction issues, the short extractor was not as good as the original, it had 3 other feeding issues I had to go so far as threatened legal action to get a refund now I have a Winchester Miroku 1886 and I could not be happier with it , except for the stupid lawyered up trigger and safety catch so I replaced the trigger and hammer with a Browning Parts no easy feat living in Australia , now the trigger lets off nicely but overall the quality of the rifle was really great, Headspace was .002 inch. I do not think Pedersoli understood the reasons why Winchester only ever built the mod 71 in 348 Winchester, it was to get away from the heavier bullets and a fatter 348 case prevented the case rolling around in the action causing lockups, still I wish I could have bought an 1886 Browning model that would have been the ultimate 1886 Vaughn Gunthorpe Plainland Australia [/QUOTE]
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