What is replacing the SKB SxS

[Leroy Luck]

3 hours ago, Coyote Kid, SASS#54714 said:

brand new

I’d send it to the manufacturer and let them fix it 

[Coyote Kid, SASS#54714]

I won this shotgun at a Whitetails Unlimited dinner about 18 years ago and it has sat in the box in the closet until now, I think it's out of warranty.

[Coyote Kid, SASS#54714]

I found a replacement firing pin and received today.

There is a website called (duh), firingpins.com.

Whooed of thunk it exsited.

Coyote Kid

 

[Tall John]

Love my Skb’s. Doc Noper just tricked this one out for me!

[Moe T Vator]

On 6/29/2024 at 1:18 PM, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

Give him a call.

 

For SKBs? 
happy to buy need a # please 

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

2 hours ago, Moe T Vator said:

For SKBs? 
happy to buy need a # please 

https://grinergunworks.com/

[Kirk James]

You can have your SKB stock bedded to help prevent cracking; or fix a cracked stock.   

[Captain Bill Burt]

I’ve been told that proper stock to action tightness prevents cracking. With that in mind I have never taken the stock off of any of our four SKBs and after many years none of them have any cracks.

[Snakebite]

I haven't worked on or tuned up every SXS out there and by no means know what the heck I am doing when compared to the guys here that actually do know. So take all of this with a grain a salt. Over the past 30 years of playing with "Cowboy guns" I've screwed up so many guns that I can't even count them all. BUT, I'm slowly learning what NOT TO DO! I've done a number of BSS.  IMO they are a Battleship and about as good as you can get for the rough use this game can put on a gun. I've done many Stoegers and as most folks know, when all else fails, you can always get one them to get the job done. I've slicked around with several other SXS, some better than others, but without any doubt the worst I've ever come across was the Citadel Boss SXS. IMO it is total junk. After all the hoppla that was out there about the CZ Sharptail, I decided to try one of them, so I bought one. I'm obviously not as good as some of the Big Name guys because I did NOT like it. The low angle of attack used to cock the gun yielded a mechanical disadvantage due to the geometry. IMO the gun can not be made to operate the way I want one to. I've seen several other Sharptails and not one of them suited me. The SKB is good, but very difficult to get. So, I decided to try a Charles Daly 512 Superior. Out of the Box it was as tight as a Bull's @$$ in Fly season, and unusable. It took me a while to get it figured out. I had to learn as I went, but it started to shape up. The top lever spring is "Interesting".  After trial and error it has turned into the slickest SXS that I have ever handled.  It is so light weight that it could push you around when shooting full strength loads, so I put a Mercury tube in the stock. Of course it has NOT stood the test of time yet, but right now it is not only a good looking gun, but it is the easiest to open of any gun I've seen The extractor is taller than I like, but a little trimming on the top and it became more friendly. JMO

Edited July 21 by Snakebite

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 6/28/2024 at 7:26 AM, Jackrabbit Joe #414 said:

SKB's all the way. Thanks to Johnny "Pappy" Meadows. They are still going strong with no problems what so ever.

Johnny worked on my SKB 200E that I bought at the factory outside of Tokyo like twenty years before.  I had the ejector springs reinstalled (I never used it for SASS and it was inconvenient for hunting) and the only other thing he did was a deep cleaning.

 

The gun looks almost as good as new and it's for sale....but you can't afford it.  If you meet my price it will go up before you can get your money out of your pocket.