new cas shooter

[Fishn River Mick]

 Howdy, I live NE of KC Mo., Any pards up my way?
Currently I have a '58 .44 and a rossi '92 .357. I am planning on getting a hammered sxs, and another '58 remmie plus some spare cylinders. I have most of the clothes already from civil war reinacting. Also is the Centurian sxs 12ga imported by century a good buy?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[john boy]

Mick, welcome to CasCity and CAS.  If you are looking for a club, you may want to click on http://www.sassnet.com/AClubs-Main-001A.php and see who is near you.

Don't know a thing about them Centurian sxs 12ga's.

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Howdy, Mick. Glad to see a new shooter in CAS. Can't tell you anything about the Centurian shotguns but it has to be as good or better than the 5 Stoegers I had to buy before I got one that would shoot straight. The Remmies are a good gun. I've had a couple. Outstanding accuracy. I also have a Rossi '92 in .357 which has worked well for three or four years for my wife. She now has gone over to a Uberti '73 (like mine) and it isn't getting much use these days. No fault on it's operation or reliability, though.

[Kayleen]

There is a great bunch of guys to shoot with near Garnett, Kansas. Grizzle Bear and trap have posted here. Get ahold of them.
Kayleen

[Matthew Duncan]

Centurian is Chinese made.  Son working his why thru college at a sporting goods store says the return rate is high.

[Camille Eonich]

Welcome Mick!!!

[Book Miser]

Yeah, Mick. Welcome!

Matthew, is "Centurian" the same as the "Jing" scattergun? Sells for under $200? Rough as a cob?

I bought one of those, and aside from the lousy fit-and-finish, it just needed a little bench work that I've been able to do myself. Unbelievably, they put finish on the stock before they cut the checkering, so it looks like leftover Hell. But that and the crummy bluing job could be fixed at home. The joint of the gun is pretty loose, but I think a coupla punch marks will tighten that. Worst part was that the action felt weird. I cleaned things up with solvent, then did a tiny bit of work with a stone, and it cocks much easier. Had trouble occasionally where it wouldn't stay cocked, and I traced that to the works being too close to the bottom of the space cut into the stock where it lives. Five minutes work with a dremel tool fixt that too.

Whether it shoots straight or not, I can't say. I don't shoot all that straight with a scattergun. Always high. (Last Saturday, I enlisted the help of Oracle Jones to stand behind me and holler "shoot low!" every time I had the shotgun in hand.)

[Fishn River Mick]

 Thanks for the greetings, Just got through cleaning the '58, I shot 4 cylinders full 30gr & round ball @ 50' she grouped 2-3" a little low and to the left (offhand), the last cyl I shot the woodchunks (8" high 4x4 and landscaping timbers) 5for6, so I'm pretty happy, gotta get to know her some more and pick up another.

[Matthew Duncan]

Matthew, is "Centurian" the same as the "Jing" scattergun? 

I believe it is.  Some don't want to buy a gun kit and rather buy a gun that works.

[Book Miser]

Some don't want to buy a gun kit and rather buy a gun that works.

Yup. And some have the luxury of being able to spend more money than I have to spend. Same reason I am using a Lee press, bought used on The Wire, instead of having popped 3x as much for a Dillon.

I don't think there ought to be either snobbishness about how much one spends, or reverse-snobbishness about how little one spends. There's room enough in the sport for a variety of levels of affluence, or willingness to invest money. That, I was told, is the difference between cowboy shooting and IDPA.

Just my 2 cents' worth.

[J.W.Neely]

Welcome Mick....yeee haaaa a cap and ball shooter...now that's more like it...

[Matthew Duncan]

Miser,

I guess I just don't understand why consumers buy a new product and then have to spend more money to get the product to work?  Used is a different story ...

[Book Miser]

Never spent a penny on that shotgun. I'm generally one who likes to open up a new gun and make sure all the crud's been cleaned out, burrs removed, and the like. I had the locks out of this shotgun on the workbench for about a week, but I doubt if I spent as much as an hour on the whole project. T'wasn't complicated stuff.

Now, my Winchucker 94 is a different story. Bought it new and put 50 rounds through it. Stock cracked at the wrist. Right back to the factory, same day I bought it. They had it five weeks, buggered a screw on the butt plate when they reassembled it. Thiis gun has a BAD problem, in that the loading gate door sometimes pops clear out of the hole in the receiver side plate. THAT I object to, and I'm expecting them to correct it under warranty. It is obviously a tolerance build-up problem. (The side plate hole is at the upper limit of the acceptable range, and the door is at the lower end of the size range.)

Solution: bought a Marlin. The Winchucker is going to a factory authorized shop for repair next month. (I'm driving past there on my way south for the winter. Will pick it up on the way home, in a coupla months.)

If I'd had to wait until I had enough money even for a Stoeger, I'd still be borrowing Lady Law's shotgun. I figure that as long as I knew what I was getting into with the Jing, no fault/no foul. With the Winchester, I had paid enough to expect more.

I own maybe a dozen guns altogether. Some fellers I've met have more money sunk in just ONE than I have in the whole mess. Now, I won't tolerate anything that's unsafe, or unreliable if I'm expecting to use it for a defense weapon. 'Nother story altogether.

I don't want to start a bunch of poor-mouth stuff, but you'd proly be shocked at how little income I have, and I manage OK.