Who has a Blue Line Pump?
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Mine arrived yesterday from Bullseye North after I handled it in the store. I had them ship it as I was travelling and couldn't bring it with me. At the sale price, I couldn't resist.
Very similar to a Norinco I owned (and foolishly sold) for bears at my off grid deer property. Seems like same dense plastic stock as the Norinco, which I liked and helped with recoil but the sling swivel stud should be closer to the recoil pad. I am planning on keeping it as is, other than a side saddle shell holder.
Cleaned all the oil off it, finally finished cleaning up all the snow from recent blizzard and gun club got plowed out last night, will be running some shells through it this week.
PS - very impressed with Bullseye North store and the staff I dealt with. Wish I lived a lot closer to it (but wife is happy we dont!)
Very similar to a Norinco I owned (and foolishly sold) for bears at my off grid deer property. Seems like same dense plastic stock as the Norinco, which I liked and helped with recoil but the sling swivel stud should be closer to the recoil pad. I am planning on keeping it as is, other than a side saddle shell holder.
Cleaned all the oil off it, finally finished cleaning up all the snow from recent blizzard and gun club got plowed out last night, will be running some shells through it this week.
PS - very impressed with Bullseye North store and the staff I dealt with. Wish I lived a lot closer to it (but wife is happy we dont!)
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If I was in the market, I would give it a try; I have owned JW15, Scorpio, still have a NZ85B and 1911 in .45 with target sights. Fantastic guns, all of them. I wish I had bought their Ithaca 37 clone when they were available.
So Gunner410 and I took it out to the range at -16C and ran some ammo through it this afternoon. Some initial observations based on our experience (so no snotty comments from the member deriding lack of quantitative data and limited shooting in cold weather with these shotguns in the other shotgun forum)
- fed a variety of buckshot, slugs, and 50+ year old lead duck shells (that belonged to my late father) in 2 3/4 and 3 inch lengths . No failure to feeds and no failure to fire.
- no issues with barrel indexing and only comment was the bead was hard to see in the shaded area we were shooting. If I was to spend money on the shotgun, i would put a hi viz bead on the barrel .
- operator error caused each of us an issue. Twice, I ejected fired shells but failed to put one in the chamber. Twice Gunner410 pumped a shell into the chamber but did not have the bolt lock resulting in the firearm not discharging. I wasn't pumping it hard enough open and he wasn't pumping it hard enough closed. Once we figured that out we didnt have any further issues.
- others have commented that putting 870 forestock furniture on these shotguns is hard to do as the forend tube is a larger diameter on the Blueline than on the 870. The magazine tube on the Blueline is also a larger diameter than the 870. I tried to put a 870 forend tube and forend with a light and it would not slide over the magazine tube.
- while disassembling the shotgun and cleaning off all the heavy oil on it, i found a patch of rust on the front of the receiver under where the barrel sits. Not a big deal, but something to watch.
All in all, I will have no hesitation to use the shotgun to protect my property from nuisance bears with slugs or buckshot. I patterned some #4 buckshot and BBs at 20 yards and I would definitely use it for close range coyotes (after I installed a plug limiting the magazine to 2 rounds).
- fed a variety of buckshot, slugs, and 50+ year old lead duck shells (that belonged to my late father) in 2 3/4 and 3 inch lengths . No failure to feeds and no failure to fire.
- no issues with barrel indexing and only comment was the bead was hard to see in the shaded area we were shooting. If I was to spend money on the shotgun, i would put a hi viz bead on the barrel .
- operator error caused each of us an issue. Twice, I ejected fired shells but failed to put one in the chamber. Twice Gunner410 pumped a shell into the chamber but did not have the bolt lock resulting in the firearm not discharging. I wasn't pumping it hard enough open and he wasn't pumping it hard enough closed. Once we figured that out we didnt have any further issues.
- others have commented that putting 870 forestock furniture on these shotguns is hard to do as the forend tube is a larger diameter on the Blueline than on the 870. The magazine tube on the Blueline is also a larger diameter than the 870. I tried to put a 870 forend tube and forend with a light and it would not slide over the magazine tube.
- while disassembling the shotgun and cleaning off all the heavy oil on it, i found a patch of rust on the front of the receiver under where the barrel sits. Not a big deal, but something to watch.
All in all, I will have no hesitation to use the shotgun to protect my property from nuisance bears with slugs or buckshot. I patterned some #4 buckshot and BBs at 20 yards and I would definitely use it for close range coyotes (after I installed a plug limiting the magazine to 2 rounds).
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