Just my luck. Every time I lend a newbie a gun…

So, ventured up to Cedar Springs tonight to shoot trap with some members of the team that live up there. Good times. A total newbie came out today too and shot a 17 his first time on the trap range.

With an 870 fitted with a 20″ cylinder bore rifle sighted barrel. One you’d use for slugs and deer. That kinda thing. Impressive!

For his 2nd round I lent him my Baikal single-barrel. He was dusting the clays with it until he broke it open and the whole thing fell apart. So, we helped put it back together. Then it did it again.

*sigh* Last time I lent a shotgun to a newbie it was my Huglu and it started doubling on that person.

Anyway, we took the Baikal aside and fired a few shots into the air to test it out just to make sure the newbie wasn’t hitting the forearm release. Turns out he wasn’t, the forearm was wiggling loose under recoil.

I think I got it fixed though. A couple of screws that hold the forearm bits all together were a bit loose.

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