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  • nickel plate
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2012
    • 2119

    32 ga Iver Johnson ejecting issue

    It's a single shot that I received from an inheritance many years ago. It was built during the "paper" shotgun shell era and came with a box of same. It shot and ejected perfectly with paper but since they were no longer available, I located and bought a case of 32 ga plastic cartridge Fiocchi shells. The IJ still shoots well but will not eject the spent plastic cartridge. I think the expanded top crimp wedges a lot tighter in the chamber that the older paper crimps thus the problem. Not sure but the brass base-paper vs. plastic also may the issue but I have no paper shells left to compare.
    Can the barrel chamber be bored out a little further in depth to compensate for the plastic crimp wedge or is the old owl gun now a wall hanger?
    Anyone know of a gun smith with a 32 ga boring tool? It appears to me that there is enough breech barrel steel to attempt this. Not a Damascus twist barrel.
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    Dattebayo
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2013
    • 2344

    Originally posted by nickel plate
    It's a single shot that I received from an inheritance many years ago. It was built during the "paper" shotgun shell era and came with a box of same. It shot and ejected perfectly with paper but since they were no longer available, I located and bought a case of 32 ga plastic cartridge Fiocchi shells. The IJ still shoots well but will not eject the spent plastic cartridge. I think the expanded top crimp wedges a lot tighter in the chamber that the older paper crimps thus the problem. Not sure but the brass base-paper vs. plastic also may the issue but I have no paper shells left to compare.
    Can the barrel chamber be bored out a little further in depth to compensate for the plastic crimp wedge or is the old owl gun now a wall hanger?
    Anyone know of a gun smith with a 32 ga boring tool? It appears to me that there is enough breech barrel steel to attempt this. Not a Damascus twist barrel.
    Possibly a better solution is to load paper shells yourself? I would hate to modify a gun that is an heirloom.

    Paper hulls can be readily available at ballisticproducts.com

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