Bowning Gold

[GulfCoast]

Sooner or later, someone will show up with a horror story. This IS MSDucks, after all!

Hot Dog: You can still find them NIB if'n you look on the auction sites.

[rbh62]

RBH: You have got "coffee grounds" up in the rails from unburned powder combined with Rem Oil most likely. Or so much gunk on the mag tube the piston won't slide. As little as I clean mine, I find that Break Free CLP, or FP10 really keep the guns running. Rem Oil and thick oils like that in cold weather can get sticky in most any gun.

GulfCoast, you got any solutions I can do to get it cleaned? Do I need to break it down and try or take it somewhere and let someone else that knows what they are doing do it? Thanks alot for the info!!

[randall25x]

here is some good instructions on how to properly clean your Gold.
http://www.cabelas.com/story-123/oseka_ ... Gold.shtml

[rbh62]

Thanks randall25x, I will def try what this article says. There is alot in there that I have not yet done to my gun, hopefully that will take care of the sticking. Thanks again!!

[Medicine Man]

If you have to read the instructions manual on "How to properly clean a gun" you're a "topwater". I'm just saying..

[kwacksmacker18]

Sooner or later, someone will show up with a horror story. This IS MSDucks, after all!

Hot Dog: You can still find them NIB if'n you look on the auction sites.

Yea I hear that! But that would be like one out of how many people that have replied? The way I look at it, thats pretty good odds!!

[farmerc83]

Yeah this is not a gun that needs that "I don't want to clean it so I'll spray oil in it" attitude. In that case, you're better off just leaving it be. Just use a very light spray of WD 40 or something similar when its clean and you'll be good to go.

[mudweiser92887]

I own the SBE2 and my brother has a browning gold..I beg him to let me take it on the dove hunts it that tells you anything. I will say this though if your looking for a duck hunting gun, it's to nice of a gun for that. And if your looking to Turkey hunt, it will not shoot 3 1/2 inch shells.

thats why i bought the silver

[greenheadman1]

I've had a gold hunter 3.5" for about 6 years, killed a many of ducks with it, but I had to retire it mid season this year. The gun always worked properly when it was clean on a warmer day! I'm not speaking for all gold's, but mine has let me down time and time again when it is cold, and when I say cold I mean 32 degrees and colder. As stated before the action would become slower and it would eventually start jamming up. I've had a few minor issues like the magazine stopper getting hung and a few others over the years. I stepped up to an Old SBE1 and haven't looked back! The Gold is on back-up duty.

[mudweiser92887]

never owned a sbe but i know my old 870 never let me know down haha just had to step up to a 12 gauge and wanted an automatic

[randall25x]

If you have to read the instructions manual on "How to properly clean a gun" you're a "topwater". I'm just saying..

Well, seeing as each gun is different on PROPER cleaning procedures. You are definately a topwater if you DONT read the instructions.

I've had a gold hunter 3.5" for about 6 years, killed a many of ducks with it, but I had to retire it mid season this year. The gun always worked properly when it was clean on a warmer day! I'm not speaking for all gold's, but mine has let me down time and time again when it is cold, and when I say cold I mean 32 degrees and colder. As stated before the action would become slower and it would eventually start jamming up. I've had a few minor issues like the magazine stopper getting hung and a few others over the years. I stepped up to an Old SBE1 and haven't looked back! The Gold is on back-up duty.

If you will follow the link I posted earlier in this thread, Your slow action problems might go away. If they do not you may need a new action spring. They are about 15 bucks.

[cheeko]

it is a great gun. i have been shooting one for 11 years. Never had a problem with it. But i do take good care of it.

[GulfCoast]

If it "slows down" when its cold, the first place to look is your lube.

[Medicine Man]

If it "slows down" when its cold, the first place to look is your lube.

She said to tell you thanks. That fixed the proplem and hasn't jammed again since.

[JMitch]

I have 4 or 5 of them. My 3.5" , duck gun, which was also my sporting clays gun for many years, has well over 60K rounds through it and will shoot 7/8 oz loads. I probably have over 100K rounds through all of them combined. I have had two broken firing pins (5 minute fix) in a sporting clays gun (Browning had a bad run of pins), and the plastic cap/magazine follower cracked in my duck gun after it got wet and froze. I replaced that plastic cap with an aluminum one, and have had zero problems since. I clean my duck gun before the season, and if it gets sopping wet, and thats about it. I clean my sporting clays guns when they get totally disgusting (like every couple thousand rounds). I have been very happy with my bunch.

The key to being happy with them is to strip clean the gun BEFORE you ever shoot it to get all the cosmoline/packing grease out of it.

The 3.5" guns won't work worth a damn if you accidently drop a 10 guage shell in it, though!

Yea i know a guy who tried to shove a 10 ga shell in one didnt work either haha