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Anyone here who either owns, owned, or knows someone who own's a Norinco coach shotgun????

I got to shoot one owned by a range member a few weeks back. The shotgun is pretty much a sawed-off shotgun except it has a full stock. Swap in a pistol grip or get hold of someone who knows how to use a lathe and you'd have a Mad Max Special.

The only thing I saw as problematic with the one I shot was that removing the spent shells was rather troublesome. The break action was fine, slipping in the shells was fine, and shooting was good. But breaking the action to remove the spent shells sucked. You literally had to put the shotgun across your knees and release the hinge and pushdown between the barrel and the stock to get it to break open. I had different sized shells so I ran different brands through the shotgun. Only in the case of one brand and kind of shell did the break action work with ease and the spent shells removed without issue.

Anyone else here experience these issues with their Norinco Coach gun, or was my experience with the break action difficulty a one-off issue due to an existing problem with the gun I was shooting?
 
I've shot a few rounds out of one. I found it to be quite heavy, nevertheless fun to shoot. The action like any other gun with moving parts will loosen up with some use. Would not discount its value because it was made tight to fit.
 
The one I had the left barrel would not even chamber a shell and the hammer would not stay cocked. Sent it in for replacement. Received the second one and the wood stock cracked while I was assembling it....problems aside it sure puts a smile on your face when you fire both barrels!
 
these are very fun to shoot . however there are a few issues :
the barrels typically aren't regulated very well. not a problem with an open choke though unless shooting slugs.
these guns must be stripped and reassembled with loctite before shooting a shot. the QA is terrible at the factory and nothing is tightened at all in the two I've seen. by doing this you'll avoid the broken stocks, self uncocking hammers, and miscellaneous failures in the field that many repot.

tolerances are sloppy you won't mistake these for anything but chinese.
 
Norinco 20'' coach shotgun

From: Challenger 2010
The only thing I saw as problematic with the one I shot was that removing the spent shells was rather troublesome. The break action was fine, slipping in the shells was fine, and shooting was good. But breaking the action to remove the spent shells sucked. You literally had to put the shotgun across your knees and release the hinge and pushdown between the barrel and the stock to get it to break open

From GILLES220 Got exactly the same problem: still not cured even if I had the chamber polished, receiver dissassembled all screws were loose, put some blue loctite on them, the breaking lever was a bit gritty, I had to put some polishing coumpound inside the mechanism after I had to push the lever....probably 200 times to remove the gritty .....anyway now I can insert different ammunition and easy to eject...when it is cold...wont eject after firing....temperature raised and I could measure +- .010'' oversize of the shell bottom metal part, chamber I.D is getting too tight so I am still ####ing around with it...
Got norinco AR and pistol...with no problems that shotgun is a piece of ####!
 
AlbertaJohn said:
I had a DA Outlaw and the first time I shot a three inch magnum out of it the stock split right behind the right hand side hammer. I'm not impressed. :(
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I shot 2 rounds out if mine, the action would not release, it was all seized up, finally got it open, only to find the barrel lug had broke off upon opening, total POS, sent it back for full refund, never will I buy DA again
 
GILLES2020 said:
Norinco 20'' coach shotgun

From: Challenger 2010
The only thing I saw as problematic with the one I shot was that removing the spent shells was rather troublesome. The break action was fine, slipping in the shells was fine, and shooting was good. But breaking the action to remove the spent shells sucked. You literally had to put the shotgun across your knees and release the hinge and pushdown between the barrel and the stock to get it to break open

From GILLES220 Got exactly the same problem: still not cured even if I had the chamber polished, receiver dissassembled all screws were loose, put some blue loctite on them, the breaking lever was a bit gritty, I had to put some polishing coumpound inside the mechanism after I had to push the lever....probably 200 times to remove the gritty .....anyway now I can insert different ammunition and easy to eject...when it is cold...wont eject after firing....temperature raised and I could measure +- .010'' oversize of the shell bottom metal part, chamber I.D is getting too tight so I am still ####ing around with it...
Got norinco AR and pistol...with no problems that shotgun is a piece of ####!
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I had the same problem in general with winchester ammo, in particular the walmart bulk version. glad I got rid of that junk. caused problems in every gun I tried it in. In my case, a thorough cleaning of the pivot pin and relube cured the stiff break action.

The concept was great, but this was in my opinion, one of the worst designed and made firearms Norinco has brought to Canada. Having said that I'd still buy another. I never dared to shoot both barrels at once btw.

Also, I'm talking about the Norinco JW2000, not the Dominion Arms Outlaw. They were different, for example my JW2000 had checkering, and that was needed when firing from the hip (I recommend the kungfu grip, unless you want a bite from the opening lever, this is not for everyone).
 
I just saw one of these, 12" bbl. Looked kind of neat. I have some machined inserts for pistol rounds. Hoping these would fit in the gun. Thoughts?

EDIT:I am talking the inserts, xcalibre inserts.
 
Challenger2010 said:
Anyone here who either owns, owned, or knows someone who own's a Norinco coach shotgun????

I got to shoot one owned by a range member a few weeks back. The shotgun is pretty much a sawed-off shotgun except it has a full stock. Swap in a pistol grip or get hold of someone who knows how to use a lathe and you'd have a Mad Max Special.

The only thing I saw as problematic with the one I shot was that removing the spent shells was rather troublesome. The break action was fine, slipping in the shells was fine, and shooting was good. But breaking the action to remove the spent shells sucked. You literally had to put the shotgun across your knees and release the hinge and pushdown between the barrel and the stock to get it to break open. I had different sized shells so I ran different brands through the shotgun. Only in the case of one brand and kind of shell did the break action work with ease and the spent shells removed without issue.

Anyone else here experience these issues with their Norinco Coach gun, or was my experience with the break action difficulty a one-off issue due to an existing problem with the gun I was shooting?
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What was the kind , and brand , of shell that you found that worked . I have a Norc as well with the same issue . Thanks
 
So I looked around. Cabellas had the TW2000 for $400, local CTC had $400, listed for $450 but dropped the price, another local had if for $359. So I called my go to dealer and got the gun for $300 and it is a new version of this gun.
 
rustynut1 said:
So I looked around. Cabellas had the TW2000 for $400, local CTC had $400, listed for $450 but dropped the price, another local had if for $359. So I called my go to dealer and got the gun for $300 and it is a new version of this gun.
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Which go to dealer, for $300? PM if it's top secret!

Thanks!

R.
 
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