Turknelli 2.0 Cold Weather Problems

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So I picked up one of these Turknellis around boxing day.

Went out in the new year to test it out.. Brought some cheap target loads, some mid range field loads, and some challenger magnum 2 3/4 buckshot loads.

I live in Prince George, it was roughly -25 celcius when we went out. The ammo was cold and the gun was also frozen...

So I couldn't get anything to run at all.. It was a straight up single shot gun.. Every shot had to be manually cycled.

We got back and I stripped the whole gun.. Found a ton of nasty grease in the gas system which I cleaned out, I cleaned and disassembled the bolt, cleaned inside the receiver and the buffer tube. I polished the high wear areas, and VERY lightly lubed the bolt and slides with some drops of g96 synthetic oil. Hand cycled the action two hundred times to smooth everything over.

Went out again, still -30 out. Initially fired three rounds like it should, then right back to single shot mode. The gun started ejecting two shells at a time from the magazine tube, and locking them up on the feed ramp so they couldn't feed into the chamber. I shot 50 rounds or so cycling by hand fighting with it.. By the end I had literally only a few that cycled automatically, which was part of the box of the buckshot I had.. The rest of the buckshot didn't run either.

At this point I'm out of ideas.. Are these just warm weather guns? Has anyone else taken these out past -10 with any success?

I'm not interested in a gun that won't always go bang. Seeing if anyone has any ideas before I start saving for a real M4!

Josh
 
Well first thing
Yes you have to clean the packing grease out of the gun.
So that probably helped on the 2nd time out.
2nd the challenge buck shot is just ####. The clip is very bad and thecrim is out of spec.
I have 8000 round of it at the shop and none of it will work in a a semi auto. Not evening my bennli me that has 90k shot out of it.
3rd if you use any lube in -30 !and I mean any lube it will not work.
My knight armament sr15 has 17k shot in it and qe had to run it no lube when it hit minus 30.
And that's a,well used gun.
 
What sort of ammo should I be looking for? Is Federal or Winchester any better than any others?

Hopefully something cheap to practice with.. The $$$ could add up shooting slugs and premium buck for practice

Josh
 
just about ANY kinda lube is no good in real cold weather...-52 here this morning and the 1895 marlin 45-70 stainless without any lube works but an 870 and mossberg 500 failed to feed
 
badboybeeson said:
Well first thing
Yes you have to clean the packing grease out of the gun.
So that probably helped on the 2nd time out.
2nd the challenge buck shot is just ####. The clip is very bad and thecrim is out of spec.
I have 8000 round of it at the shop and none of it will work in a a semi auto. Not evening my bennli me that has 90k shot out of it.
3rd if you use any lube in -30 !and I mean any lube it will not work.
My knight armament sr15 has 17k shot in it and qe had to run it no lube when it hit minus 30.
And that's a,well used gun.
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You seriously can’t get any of your semi autos to work with challenger buckshot ? I’ve put hundreds through my 930 and this seems incredible to me.
 
Super Mario said:
You seriously can’t get any of your semi autos to work with challenger buckshot ? I’ve put hundreds through my 930 and this seems incredible to me.
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Agreed. My cheap Revolution Armory Celerity cycles everything from the cheapest Challenger birdshot, to Challenger buckshot flawlessly. Not a single jam or FTF ever.
 
To be fair challenger is pretty garbage, but many semi run it fine. I think the most obvious answer is to try different ammo especially breaking in a new firearm, can’t be be surprising to hear some like certain ammo better and you have to test it.
 
Mine has similar problems- Ran 3-4 rounds well with multiple types of ammo- mostly slugs. Funny enough the low recoil slugs seemed to work the best in it.

Also had the double-feed issue often, which locked up the shotgun.
 
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