I bought this new Pedersoli SxS smoothbore about a month ago and we have not gotten along very well so far. It goes off once for about every five trigger pulls and it makes no difference which barrel I use. I get a flash in the pan but no BOOM.
The main issue is what I consider a design flaw. The touchhole is located behind the breech of the barrel. There is a small chamber behind the barrel that the touchhole goes to. Imagine removing the lock and touchhole liner. Now run a ramrod all the way down the barrel. You cannot see the ramrod from the hole in the side of the barrel because it cannot reach that area. That chamber gets powder from the main charge through a hole in the bottom of the barrel. Two big problems I see with this design are 1) that chamber is a great place for cleaning oil to build up and 2) powder from the main charge might not get in there in a sufficient quantity if the barrel is fouled.
My solution was to drill the touchholes out to 1/16" and to fire off a little powder in each barrel before loading so the powder can burn any residual oil in that chamber. That seemed to do the trick because I pulled the trigger two times Sunday morning, the gun went off two times, and I brought home two squirrels. We'll see what happens when I reload in the field.
The whole thing still upsets me because I shouldn't have these kinds of issues with a brand new expensive gun!
Darren
The main issue is what I consider a design flaw. The touchhole is located behind the breech of the barrel. There is a small chamber behind the barrel that the touchhole goes to. Imagine removing the lock and touchhole liner. Now run a ramrod all the way down the barrel. You cannot see the ramrod from the hole in the side of the barrel because it cannot reach that area. That chamber gets powder from the main charge through a hole in the bottom of the barrel. Two big problems I see with this design are 1) that chamber is a great place for cleaning oil to build up and 2) powder from the main charge might not get in there in a sufficient quantity if the barrel is fouled.
My solution was to drill the touchholes out to 1/16" and to fire off a little powder in each barrel before loading so the powder can burn any residual oil in that chamber. That seemed to do the trick because I pulled the trigger two times Sunday morning, the gun went off two times, and I brought home two squirrels. We'll see what happens when I reload in the field.
The whole thing still upsets me because I shouldn't have these kinds of issues with a brand new expensive gun!
Darren
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