I'm in the process of buying a Browning gold shotgun, but reading owner reviews, I find a lot of complaints about jamming and advice to give the gun a "proper cleaning."
Is that sometting your average owner can do?
I have trained myself to strip my 870 and rebuilt a Marlin 336 last year, but I am really all thumbs at amateur gunsmithing.
On the Cabela's site there was a lengthy tutorial on cleaning a Browning Gold and it included dismantling the mechanism inside the butt stock too.
Would you recommend that procedure on a "new to me" Browning Gold if I don't know the gun's complete history? My buddy is selling it to me after getting it off someone else who never used it much I'm told.
The Cabela's article suggested that many of the Gold's percieved problems were the reult of guns never having been "properly cleaned" after purchase to remove heavy factory grease.
What is regular maintenance of these guns after a day in the field of clays range?
How oftne must you do a full strip-down clean up?
What is "dry lubricant"?
Is that sometting your average owner can do?
I have trained myself to strip my 870 and rebuilt a Marlin 336 last year, but I am really all thumbs at amateur gunsmithing.
On the Cabela's site there was a lengthy tutorial on cleaning a Browning Gold and it included dismantling the mechanism inside the butt stock too.
Would you recommend that procedure on a "new to me" Browning Gold if I don't know the gun's complete history? My buddy is selling it to me after getting it off someone else who never used it much I'm told.
The Cabela's article suggested that many of the Gold's percieved problems were the reult of guns never having been "properly cleaned" after purchase to remove heavy factory grease.
What is regular maintenance of these guns after a day in the field of clays range?
How oftne must you do a full strip-down clean up?
What is "dry lubricant"?
