Norberto Arizmendi .410

[mathandbbsauce]

My wife’s grandfather gave me a gun to fix, and according to the google machine it’s a pretty cruddy old shotgun. Break action single shot.

My prior assumptions have been confirmed in working on it. However, it’s got some sentimental value - he shot it in celebration the night of NCSU’s national championship and the story is that there was a spider web in the barrel so it pretty well blew up in his face. All I can really confirm is that he bought it with his first paycheck and I’d like to get it working.

Apart from carving a new stock for it and getting it cleaned up, is there any way to try and make this thing operable? The whole thing is intact.

 

[MacEntyre]

pictures?

 

[mathandbbsauce]

 

[mathandbbsauce]

pictures?

About as good as I can get below. It’s truly just a cruddy single shot on inherent value. I’m also not in a hurry to try and make the thing shoot. Might just reassemble it, take out the pin, and give it back to him/my father in law as a walk hanger

 

[ronn47]

@mathandbbsauce
Get a PVC tube, cap it, place the action in and fill with Evapo-Rust.

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[mathandbbsauce]

@mathandbbsauce
Get a PVC tube, cap it, place the action in and fill with Evapo-Rust.

Evapo-Rust™ Rust Remover - 1 Gallon

Amazing deals on this 1 Gallon Evapo-Rust Rust Remover at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices.

www.harborfreight.com

I have taken some solvent to it already. The bigger issue is that there was some sort of malfunction causing it to explode at the breech. The stock was shattered and honestly I can't exactly understand how he wasn't hurt worse. Ultimately I'd be looking to buy a replacement action, then put the barrel and forearm from the old gun on the new.

But, as I've taken it apart, I've realized that the action itself is some real garbage. Mostly cast parts and kinda hard to see how the thing even functions at all with how rough most of the edges are. I've seen them sold for like $100 a couple of years ago. I'm mostly thinking about assembling it such that externals look right, then tell him "this isn't safe and none of your grandkids/great-grandkids should ever use it."

 

[ronn47]

I have taken some solvent to it already. The bigger issue is that there was some sort of malfunction causing it to explode at the breech. The stock was shattered and honestly I can't exactly understand how he wasn't hurt worse. Ultimately I'd be looking to buy a replacement action, then put the barrel and forearm from the old gun on the new.

But, as I've taken it apart, I've realized that the action itself is some real garbage. Mostly cast parts and kinda hard to see how the thing even functions at all with how rough most of the edges are. I've seen them sold for like $100 a couple of years ago. I'm mostly thinking about assembling it such that externals look right, then tell him "this isn't safe and none of your grandkids/great-grandkids should ever use it."

Clean it up and make it look pretty.