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I have a luxano for messing around and it shoots everything without a problem. Check that everything is as it should be. Don't see the need for a 3.5 my self but that is only the chamber size. Sounds like it has a fault.

don`t think there`s a fault, it`s just that people keep trying to use lighter loads the manual states nothing less than 32grm 700mil carts

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I tried out my new Hatsan 3" this evening- worked like a flaming charm!! As a test, a friend lent me some really pathetic 21gm carts and it cycled them without even blinking! I can't get over the lack of recoil with the VIPs, which hammered me when I used someones OU the other week, unbelievable.

 

Subsonicat- I saw your comment about lengthening a gun's stock and this made my life a lot easier tonight.

 

Cheers for all your advice and help people!

 

Good to hear! My 3" escort is awesome and works great, keep the piston clean and she will work fine ! I use 24g gamebore super steel.

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Good to hear! My 3" escort is awesome and works great, keep the piston clean and she will work fine ! I use 24g gamebore super steel.

 

Ahhhhhh, there we go again, See you are useing Steel cartridges,,, Let us NOT FORGET the fact, Steel burns a FASTER POWDER::: So you do get a CLEANER Burn..

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sorry to jump on your thread Granty with a problem of my own.

 

i bought a used 3 inch escort last week. the previous owner told me it hadnt had much use and looking at the condition i believe him as it was like new... all seemed clean and tidy inside so i popped up a local farm, not a lot there so i only got of 7 shots and 2 or 3 of them wouldnt load the new cart... i used 70mm 32 gramm gamebore clear pigeon 6 with a fibre wad. after someone on here mentioned it i checked the two holes in the barrel to make sure they where clear which they where (the gun was spotless) so today i went out again to the same place to try it again, yet again very little about and i managed to fire 7 carts again (really hope that 7 doesnt become a habbit!) anyway twice it wouldnt load the new cart :(

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I have a 3.5inch chambered hatsan and had the same problem with jams. in the end after various thorough cleaning sesssions and tests with different cartridges i decided to take it in to the local gunsmiths. £60 later problem solved. The magazine had a slight bulge in it which i had tried filing down and was preventing the 2nd cartridge from loading. best of luck

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went out again today, im told its usually a cracking farm but i think someone had been there before we got there as was bug*er all around... but out of 3 shots. one the new cart jammed and one it didnt eject the old cart..

 

Got to ask, is the O ring intact and in the right place, as this can cause problems. While its clean is there a light coating oil on the moving parts, when I cleaned mine I would say I over oiled it as when shooting oil was dripping out out of the gas vents on the fore end good job its synthetic vers.

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sorry to jump on your thread Granty with a problem of my own.

 

i bought a used 3 inch escort last week. the previous owner told me it hadnt had much use and looking at the condition i believe him as it was like new... all seemed clean and tidy inside so i popped up a local farm, not a lot there so i only got of 7 shots and 2 or 3 of them wouldnt load the new cart... i used 70mm 32 gramm gamebore clear pigeon 6 with a fibre wad. after someone on here mentioned it i checked the two holes in the barrel to make sure they where clear which they where (the gun was spotless) so today i went out again to the same place to try it again, yet again very little about and i managed to fire 7 carts again (really hope that 7 doesnt become a habbit!) anyway twice it wouldnt load the new cart :(

 

Are the Gambore clear pigeon carts not just 65 mm?

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to be honest i probably will, id rather take the escort as thats the reason i bought it.. if it got knocked about while walking the farm i wouldnt be to peeved as even though my O/U wasnt an expensive one its stil three times what i paid for the escort

 

satill need to find out whats wrong with it though :(

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went out again today, im told its usually a cracking farm but i think someone had been there before we got there as was bug*er all around... but out of 3 shots. one the new cart jammed and one it didnt eject the old cart..

 

i forgot to mention in my post that the third shot, the one where the cart never edjected happened when i was sitting in a hide with the gun on my lap. i am 99% sure i didnt have my hand anywhere near the trigger (also could have sowrn the safety was on). although im new to shotguns i have shot for well over 20 years so understandf the importance of gun safety and not sitting holding the trigger

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What some have said to do with a new s/a is to get a box of heavier load cartridges to bed or run it in knocking off any rough edges, noticed yours is not new but has only fired a few cartridges.

 

I have never used this method, and normally use the cartridges that I normally use, with my escort I did have to change cartridges as it would not cycle the soft comp x's. A king person gave me some Hull super fast plastic wads to try the other night. They cycled ok, might be worth trying a different make or cartridge to see if you have the same problem with different ones. At the moment I am using Hull intercomp 28G fibres and they cycle fine, I believe the 28G version are no longer made unfortunately and now come in 24G :(

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I am using fibre wads, I tend to avoid plastic wads as some grounds I use are fibre only, saves having to stock both types. Currently using some old stock of Hull inter comp HV 28G fibre (no longer avaible in 28G).

 

All the ones friends gave me to try were plastic wads, did not notice any difference in cycling apart from the first trip out when used comp X's fibres (very soft cartridge) in it, and when the workings covered in packing grease. Will try the Comp X's again later after a good few cartridges have been put through it.

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