Nice conversion

[orphanedcowboy]

From junk:



To Hunk?



Specs:

Browning Gold 12ga 3 1/2" chamber 20 1/4" barrel, +3 Nordic tube


I still need the small parts, magazine cutoff, safety, magazine extension to be sent off to be Tefloned , but that will happen later this week.

It has functioned with everything I have tried with the exception of low recoil target loads, but I could tweak the gas ports and make that happen. It has a nice uniform pattern with 000 buck, but surprisingly had a tight pattern with 4 buck. I am thinking of dipping the butt stock and fore end in a graphite pattern.

 

[451 Detonics]

Very nice save...was the gun in a fire? Has that look...

 

[orphanedcowboy]

Nope, painted with latex house paint, the choke tube was seized, there was no saving the barrel. I paid $250 shipped for it, and I have about $500 total in it with the stocks, extension and refinish

 

[xplag]

I'd imagine it took a serious amount of elbow grease to get it to where it is now. Great work, the thing looks new.

Did you replace any other parts? Trigger assembly, bolt, etc?

 

[orphanedcowboy]

I replaced all the springs, buffers and magazine tube because of rust, whoever had it obviously had no clue about maintenance or they just didn't care. I even had the trigger housing re-finished with teflon, although I wouldn't recommend just anyone tear into a trigger group. I need to find someone to blacken/parkerize the bolt.