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GulfCoast wrote: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 wrote: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.

Medicine Man wrote: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.

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

greenheadman1 wrote: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.

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

GulfCoast wrote: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!