Disassembly of the TTN 1878 coach gun

[Tater Pickens]

I've had my coach gun for a couple years now and want to get inside to clean and lube and make sure everything is tight. Does anyone know of any schematics or instructions on how to get into the guts if this coach gun? The tang screws are self explanatory but I don't know what other screws I need to remove to separate the stock from the receiver to get inside and I don't want to just start taking out screws for fear they may be holding some of the internals together.

Thanks, as always for your envaluable assistance and sharing of your great wealth of knowledge about these cowboy guns.

Tater Pickens

[Clemsum]

There is a small screw toward the rear of the side plate on each side that has to come out before you can remove the side plate or stock. These screws thread into a sleeve that floats in a hole through the stock and you will need to have a screwdriver in each screw at the same time or it will just spin in place.

I used Google to find instructions for mine but cannot remember the site. The instructions I found were for an earlier model and did not mention the small screw. Someone else told me about it.

I have had mine apart except for the top lever and could not figure out how to get it apart. After I had given up trying, I called Walt at EMF and he said there is a cross pin in the receiver that has to be driven out to take out the lever. On my gun it is very hard to see but it is above the hammer and the relief cut for the side plate goes through the pin.

I had no problem with parts falling out, most of the springs and sears are mounted to the side plates.

Clemsum

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[tedro]

  Do ant of you gentlemen know where to look for an 1878 ttn coach buttstock?? been everywhere. Now have had RYAN from HCP GUNsmithing looking for one for 6 months!! Still we cant locate. Please help and Thanks guys in advance. ED 

[Mako]

Do ant of you gentlemen know where to look for an 1878 ttn coach buttstock?? been everywhere. Now have had RYAN from HCP GUNsmithing looking for one for 6 months!! Still we cant locate. Please help and Thanks guys in advance. ED 

Contact Cimarron

http://www.cimarron-firearms.com/

~Mako

[Steel Horse Bailey]

The parts for nearly all of the shotguns used in CAS are practically non-existent, unlike parts for Uberti, Pietta, etc.  Try to find parts for the very common Stoeger or the TTNs and you'll know whut I mean!     (like you for the last 6 months!)  You're damn lucky if you can find ANY parts for them, and the wood may be the HARDEST thing(s) to find!

[Abilene]

I don't think Cimarron has any extra buttstocks.  They do have most of the internal parts, but I think they may be oiut of a few.  (When people found out they had parts some folks started hoarding).  There is a large shipment of the TTN coachguns that has been waiting to ship for months but the red tape has been worse than usual.  I'm told the factory moved, and that increased the problem.  After one document gets signed they want another.  And another.  The latest forecast (guess) is December.  Hopefully there are more parts on that shipment.

[Lead Shooter]

    I had a gun smith order me a new ttn 1878 the day I saw it in the Sept. issue of Shoot Magazine in 2004. I think I was the first in Southern IL. to have one. What I find as an advantage shotting CAS is you can cock both hammers at the same time with one thumb due to the hammers being pintch together over the receiver.  That saves time and that's part of the game. I've shot a many CAS matches with mine and it has never given me any kind of trouble at all. I  LOVE IT. I like it so well when run across one availlable at a pawn shop I grab it up as a back-up, if I ever had trouble with my first one, but so far I don't see it being used anytime soon. The 2004 Shoot Magazine states that it read a report from H.P. Labortories that  proof tested the gun on Dec. 15, 2003 with what they called a 20/12 test where they took a live 20ga. shotshell placed in the chamber and moved down the chamber until the rim contacted the forcing cone. Then a live 12ga. shell was loaded and fired. The only damage noted was a crack in the stock.  That told me it had to be a tuff gun and after all these years it has proven it too me. The same gun smith tnat ordered the gun for me had some wood stocks not too long ago.   All I can say is to e-mail and ask him.                             

His e-mail is;        Myfrogpond@frontier.com