Model 12 question

[Barbarossa]

I've got a winchester model 12, which needs to go into a gunsmith. It has extraction and timing issues. Wont feed from the tube.

Anyone have a recommendation on a good shop which could take a look at this? I'm in the east bay/ Tri-valley area.

Thanks,
Ed.

[Thefeeder]

m12

Give it a good cleaning first...may be just old gumed oil. You can find take down info on the net.....I think it will solve the problem

[adamsreeftank]

Maybe a new set of springs too. Especially the magazine tube spring.

[Barbarossa]

Give it a good cleaning first...may be just old gumed oil. You can find take down info on the net.....I think it will solve the problem

Yeah I spent a good 2 hours trying to get the thing apart...I'll look for them directions.

[Davidwhitewolf]

How'd your problems turn out? I've got a Model 12 coming my way and it'd be nice to know of a good 'smith for it in the Tri-Valley area....

[scr83jp]

How'd your problems turn out? I've got a Model 12 coming my way and it'd be nice to know of a good 'smith for it in the Tri-Valley area....

Not just a GS you've got to find someone who really knows Win Mod 12's.We had a GS who could listen to a Mod 12 as he worked the slide and from feel & sound tell you what it needed in parts,lots of the well used mod 12's need new chamber rings which have to be cut to fit.Don't try to take one apart w/o a schematic from brownells or egunparts.com.Mod 12's were hand fitted with all milled parts.I have a 1924 Nickel steel mod 12 12g that was turned into a trap shotgun, stock was cast off to fit me.