TomTeriffic
Active member
I bought it at a popular online gun auction marketplace. The site has a G in it and a B in it. I did inspect the gun at my local FFL for transfer before bringing the gun home. At the FFL, I looked down the barrel and there was no rust or pitting. The pictures online made the gun look like it were in mint condition. It has a nice checkered wood stock and a deep blue finish. But here are some troubles as follows:
1. scratch on left-hand side of receiver (partly my fault because I did not notice that the photos at the seller site did not offer full coverage of the gun, if you look at the L/H receiver in the pic, you'll notice that camera focused on the serial number but purposely did not cover the scratches forward on the receiver)
2. the most outrageous thing I've ever seen: there is a choke tube jammed in the chamber end of the barrel!! Can you believe that! What idiot did that, I wonder?
Isn't that something most gun buyers would miss during an inspection? I did not discover this until I got the gun home and tried to dry-cycle some shells through the action to check operation. The gun would not chamber shells. I felt into the chamber area to check for obstructions. Sure enough my pinky felt some notches. I took the barrel off and saw the stupid choke tube lodges in it. I cannot get it out bare handed. Pounding the barrel chamber end down on a 2x4 did not dislodge the choke tube.
Suffice it to say, I gave the seller an F grade on the gun auction site. He had an A+ average, surprisingly. I emailed the seller and asked him what he was going to make good on this otherwise nice gun screwed up a bit. Has anybody here had a bad used firearm purchase experience like this? Would you have thought to check the chamber out for a possible choke tube stuck in it? Who could ever imagine something like this?
1. scratch on left-hand side of receiver (partly my fault because I did not notice that the photos at the seller site did not offer full coverage of the gun, if you look at the L/H receiver in the pic, you'll notice that camera focused on the serial number but purposely did not cover the scratches forward on the receiver)
2. the most outrageous thing I've ever seen: there is a choke tube jammed in the chamber end of the barrel!! Can you believe that! What idiot did that, I wonder?
Isn't that something most gun buyers would miss during an inspection? I did not discover this until I got the gun home and tried to dry-cycle some shells through the action to check operation. The gun would not chamber shells. I felt into the chamber area to check for obstructions. Sure enough my pinky felt some notches. I took the barrel off and saw the stupid choke tube lodges in it. I cannot get it out bare handed. Pounding the barrel chamber end down on a 2x4 did not dislodge the choke tube.
Suffice it to say, I gave the seller an F grade on the gun auction site. He had an A+ average, surprisingly. I emailed the seller and asked him what he was going to make good on this otherwise nice gun screwed up a bit. Has anybody here had a bad used firearm purchase experience like this? Would you have thought to check the chamber out for a possible choke tube stuck in it? Who could ever imagine something like this?
