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<blockquote data-quote="MCVetSteve" data-source="post: 3615609" data-attributes="member: 33591"><p>I just got a screamin deal on what appears to be an Auto-5 clone made by a company from Japan called “Yamamoto Firearms mfg co.” It’s marked “Pointer” on the left side of the receiver. From what I could find the company in question made these from about 1963-1972. It’s a 12ga with a 2 3/4” chamber and a 28” vent rib barrel. Brought it home, checked out how to make it run, did a quick function check, and then ran some #8 target loads through it. It didn’t cycle. I had to run the action manually for all 7 of those rounds. Brought it back to the house to field strip, clean, and lube it to see if perhaps it being dry was the reason it wasn’t running. My other hypothesis was that it was the “xtra-lite” Winchester target loads, unfortunately the only 12ga I had. Anyway, field stripped it, busted a little surface rust off, sprayed some goo gone into the action before relubricating and reassembling. Good thing it turned out to not be difficult, because I forgot to take pictures. Got it all back together, performed another function check to ensure I reassembled it correctly, and stuffed some shells in it. This time the wife decided to come and shoot it too, she went first. It ran all 5 rounds beautifully, and patterned where it seems like it should? I don’t know enough about shotguns, honestly. Anyway, just thought I’d share a happy story</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MCVetSteve, post: 3615609, member: 33591"] I just got a screamin deal on what appears to be an Auto-5 clone made by a company from Japan called “Yamamoto Firearms mfg co.” It’s marked “Pointer” on the left side of the receiver. From what I could find the company in question made these from about 1963-1972. It’s a 12ga with a 2 3/4” chamber and a 28” vent rib barrel. Brought it home, checked out how to make it run, did a quick function check, and then ran some #8 target loads through it. It didn’t cycle. I had to run the action manually for all 7 of those rounds. Brought it back to the house to field strip, clean, and lube it to see if perhaps it being dry was the reason it wasn’t running. My other hypothesis was that it was the “xtra-lite” Winchester target loads, unfortunately the only 12ga I had. Anyway, field stripped it, busted a little surface rust off, sprayed some goo gone into the action before relubricating and reassembling. Good thing it turned out to not be difficult, because I forgot to take pictures. Got it all back together, performed another function check to ensure I reassembled it correctly, and stuffed some shells in it. This time the wife decided to come and shoot it too, she went first. It ran all 5 rounds beautifully, and patterned where it seems like it should? I don’t know enough about shotguns, honestly. Anyway, just thought I’d share a happy story [/QUOTE]
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