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I bought one of these Turkish-made shotguns from Academy a few weeks ago at the suggestion of a guy I work with. It was $359.00. He said he'd shot one during opening weekend of dove season and it performed flawlessly.
I took the gun and a box of clays to my friend's pasture and he threw for me so I could get used to how it shot.
I shot 8 or so singles and the gun fired and ejected fine. When he threw a double things went south, quick.
The first round fired and the spent shell ejected fine. The next round cocked in the receiver at a 45 degree angle in stead of loading into the barrel and the bolt was about an inch from being in battery. The gun fired anyway, splitting the shell down the side and firing the load of shot out of the ejection port. Luckily my friend was standing slightly behind me and the load went in front of him, in stead of hitting him in the face.
The gun should never have fired without the bolt being in battery. This is a design flaw. Academy has a strict no-return policy for guns but when I explained what happened, the manager took the gun back and applied its cost to the Remington 1187 that I took home after paying the difference.
Watch out for this brand of shotgun; at least the semi-automatics.
Mark
I took the gun and a box of clays to my friend's pasture and he threw for me so I could get used to how it shot.
I shot 8 or so singles and the gun fired and ejected fine. When he threw a double things went south, quick.
The first round fired and the spent shell ejected fine. The next round cocked in the receiver at a 45 degree angle in stead of loading into the barrel and the bolt was about an inch from being in battery. The gun fired anyway, splitting the shell down the side and firing the load of shot out of the ejection port. Luckily my friend was standing slightly behind me and the load went in front of him, in stead of hitting him in the face.
The gun should never have fired without the bolt being in battery. This is a design flaw. Academy has a strict no-return policy for guns but when I explained what happened, the manager took the gun back and applied its cost to the Remington 1187 that I took home after paying the difference.
Watch out for this brand of shotgun; at least the semi-automatics.
Mark
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