mis-alignment of vent rib !!

[SSN Vet]

origoanlly posted as "my first bad experience buyning a firearm"

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The vent rib on NIB Winchester 1300 was "cock-eyed" ... rotated 1-2 degrees from the matching grooved flat on the top of the receiver. At the muzzle end, the vent rib appeared to also be offset laterally about 1/16" from top-dead-center.

Shotgun went back to dealer who sent it back to Winchester.

Is this likely to be an issue with the soldering of the vent rib to the barrell or a machining error on the receiver itself?

Dealer will refund purchase price if I don't want to wait for Winchester....but I'll be out the shipping and FFL transfer fee. I'm willing to wait...IF...the gun can be corrected 100%.

Will the manufacturer be able to easilly correct a problem like this? or will I get back an "orphan" with a band-aide slapped over a "terminal disease"?

I'm no gunny and this was only my second shotgun ever (the first being a break action)...so I've never even so much as swapped a barrel.

 

[ArmedBear]

The vent rib is on the barrel. A new barrel should solve the problem.

If you're lucky, they'll send you the gun with a new barrel on it.

Is this American or Belgian?

 

[hoghunting]

SSN,

In your initial posting you didn't say the Win was NIB otherwise you could have sent it back to Win yourself. I guess it doesn't really matter as you would have to pay shipping no matter who you sent it to.



EDIT- Just saw the 1st posting and I was wrong - you did have NIB listed, obviously I never saw it. Sorry for any responses that didn't make sense because of that. Hope you get everything straightened out with the dealer and Winchester.