gas bracket seal Browning Gold 12 Gauge SPorting Clays

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Hi,

I just purcahsed a used Browning Gold Sporting Clays 12 Gauge. The rubber seal that is present on my other semi auto 12 gauges that is located in the gas bracket of the barrel appears to be missing.

Was this seal omitted on the sporting clays model? If not, does anyone know where I could buy the seal?

The piston also says special sporting clays. i believe these came with two pistons, but the other is missing. Is the installed piston ok to use with heavy load 2.75" shells?
 
Both my Ladies Sporting Clays and Golden Clays have the o-ring on them and both came with 2 pistons. The Ladies version pistons are silver in color like every other normal 12ga Gold and are marked "1oz or less" & "1 1/8oz or heavier". The Golden Clays has black pistons and they are marked "1 1/8oz or less" & "1 1/4oz or heavier". The Ladies is 2003 and the Golden Clays is 2005. The easy way to tell the "light load" pistons is that they are missing the first set of ports/vents up near the gas ring! If you have 2 sets of ports/vents on the piston then you have the "heavy load" version.
 
If you have another Gold, Silver, SX2 or an SX3 laying around just remove the one in it and go down to your local car parts or Hydraulic shop, hand it to them and tell them you need one just like it...and it'll be at a fraction of the gun shop price!
 
VLT79 said:
If you have another Gold, Silver, SX2 or an SX3 laying around just remove the one in it and go down to your local car parts or Hydraulic shop, hand it to them and tell them you need one just like it...and it'll be at a fraction of the gun shop price!
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You using viton?? o-rings like we do in the remingtons or just standard buna rubber ones??
Makes a huge difference in o-ring life in the remingtons
Have never bought one so far for the other makes other than an old winchester :)
 
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3macs1 said:
You using viton?? o-rings like we do in the remingtons or just standard buna rubber ones??
Makes a huge difference in o-ring life in the remingtons
Have never bought one so far for the other makes other than an old winchester :)
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I've honestly only ever changed the one on my 1999 Gold 3.5" Stalker that I ran just under 44000rds thru. Changed it out around 39500??? Or somewhere around there and just used the regular black rubber. On the Gold/Silver and SX2/SX3 the O-ring isn't sitting inside the gas chamber like it is on the SX1 or 1100/11-87/11-96 guns so it doesn't get abused by heat.

the spank said:
I dont recall there being a rubber o-ring on my Golden Clays Sporting Clays Browning I had a few years back?
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I've had 7 Golds come thru my hands and they've all had them. If the O-ring is missing the barrel lug/gas chamber has a sloppy fit on the mag tube. Probably not to serious as long as the mag cap is well tightened.
 
VLT79 said:
I've honestly only ever changed the one on my 1999 Gold 3.5" Stalker that I ran just under 44000rds thru. Changed it out around 39500??? Or somewhere around there and just used the regular black rubber. On the Gold/Silver and SX2/SX3 the O-ring isn't sitting inside the gas chamber like it is on the SX1 or 1100/11-87/11-96 guns so it doesn't get abused by heat.


Good point. I forgot about that. Know it makes some difference on the 1100's etc and makes sense why
Thanks
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That's the light load piston. If it's silver/aluminium color I'd stick to loads under 1 1/8oz @ 1255fps. If you have an SX2 or a Gold field gun you can use that piston in your Sporting Clays if you want to shoot heavier loads.
 
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