So I was doing some maintenance on a few different firearms this evening. Just checking for any rust , clear and function check and a wipe down with oil.
Get to the under n over shotty. A cheap and cheerful Akkar Churchill. Last time I fired it was a few months ago. When I opened the action, it felt tight and wierd. When I closed the action it felt ok. I dry fired and the trigger felt weird and gritty. I pulled the trigger again and it set off the second firing pin. It’s an inertia based trigger and shouldn’t do that. Open and closed the action , dry fired, same feeling in trigger ,same result. Repeatable issue, Houston, we have a problem.
It then dawned on me that I have never fully disassembled a double barrel shotgun beyond removing the forestock and seperating the barrel.
How to disassemble a shotgun?
Anyone have a Churchill or similar shotgun that could give me a starting point. Or perhaps point me towards a suitable website. Haven’t had a lot of luck yet.
If it’s anything serious I will take it to the LGS, but would like to have a sticky beak first.
I will watch them tomorrow, thanks. From the exploded diagram it would appear it has a stock bolt up it’s jaxy. Looks like the recoil pad will need to come off then I should be able to.remove the buttstock. That should give access to the trigger assembly.
So I pulled the Akkar apart. Mucked about with various socket sizes , getting increasingly angry and swearing, then realised it’s got an Allen head. Hey it’s hard to see down there.
I’m assuming the hole in the stock is offset to add a bit of extra tension to the stock. Or that’s really dodgy workmanship.
For whatever reason a spring had lost tension and was no longer pushing the interia bar hard enough to hold it.
Removed both firing pins, no recess for springs, what a bastard job. Removed spring that tensions inertia bar. Bent it a bit to add more tension. Replaced all springs and firing pins, still a bastard of a job. Seems to be fixed.
I always get terrified working with springs, then you put everything together and there are no parts left over, and everything works… A very proud moment of self reliance.
