I'm in the market for a shotgun and so I've been going through some issues of Rifleman to check out the reviews. One thing that popped back into my head was that an article for a budget pump gun said something like:
"We had a number of failures (to feed, extract, and jams). However the solution to that, as with many budget pump action guns was application of sufficient elbow grease."
Can anybody explain what you think they meant by that? I'm used to people acting like pump guns have crazy reliability (which is a key part of why I'm considering one). I could understand short stroking, and I could understand jaming just because a certain shell doesn't play nice with a certain gun. But this seems to be a different sort of thing that apparently applies to a number of different weapons.
"We had a number of failures (to feed, extract, and jams). However the solution to that, as with many budget pump action guns was application of sufficient elbow grease."
Can anybody explain what you think they meant by that? I'm used to people acting like pump guns have crazy reliability (which is a key part of why I'm considering one). I could understand short stroking, and I could understand jaming just because a certain shell doesn't play nice with a certain gun. But this seems to be a different sort of thing that apparently applies to a number of different weapons.