Anyone have one these shotguns? I've got this one stripped for refinish, except can't get the forend cap nut off on the action slide to get wood grip off. This is the takedown model that doesn't have the screws in the wood on the pump. I can't see anyway to get this off without tearing it up. anyone with experience stripping one these down, please help as I'm at a dead end. Thanks for any info you can give me. dano599
Gunsmithing Winchester 97 forend cap nut..
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Re: Winchester 97 forend cap nut..
I bought 2 basket case 1897s with enough good parts to make one, ~ 10 years ago. I only had to work on the rear half. The AGI video on this is just outstanding [unlike some other AGI videos] and while watching that video, I can swap around some of the 100 parts in that Rube Goldberg design. If no one else can help, get back to me, and I will hook a monitor up to a VHS player and find the portion you want.
I bought 2 basket case 1897s with enough good parts to make one, ~ 10 years ago. I only had to work on the rear half. The AGI video on this is just outstanding [unlike some other AGI videos] and while watching that video, I can swap around some of the 100 parts in that Rube Goldberg design. If no one else can help, get back to me, and I will hook a monitor up to a VHS player and find the portion you want.
Re: Winchester 97 forend cap nut..
Hi Clark, I finally got it off. On the forend cap nut is 2 small slots on each side of it. There's a wrench u can buy for this but a guy on another forum said to make one by taking an old box end and grinding and filing 2 nubs on it. He also used an old towel or belt and slipped it on the wood foregrip, kinda like an oil filter wrench or band wrench I guess. I just used a small punch on it in the slot after lubbing the threads with some penetrating oil and she came right off. Saved myself a few bucks by not having to buy the new wrench lol. How did your 97 turn out? Thanks for the offer . dano.
Hi Clark, I finally got it off. On the forend cap nut is 2 small slots on each side of it. There's a wrench u can buy for this but a guy on another forum said to make one by taking an old box end and grinding and filing 2 nubs on it. He also used an old towel or belt and slipped it on the wood foregrip, kinda like an oil filter wrench or band wrench I guess. I just used a small punch on it in the slot after lubbing the threads with some penetrating oil and she came right off. Saved myself a few bucks by not having to buy the new wrench lol. How did your 97 turn out? Thanks for the offer . dano.
Re: Winchester 97 forend cap nut..
I built the shotgun and it works, except sometimes the slide does not lock forward. I should fix it.
I have another one that has been in the family since the 1934 Seattle dock strike. My uncle bought a bunch and sawed them to 18.5" barrels to protect his ship [a wooden 4 masted schooner]. That ship got taken over by the navy in WWII and sank. Fortunately the family arsenal of shotguns was not on board.
In 1959 one of those 97's was given to my father for Christmas. My father had it rebarreled at Warshalls. When I was 12 I fell down with it in Moxee volcanic dirt, plugging up the muzzle. When I fired it, the shotgun got shortened again. My father got a poly choke put on it for me. I got as good with that shot gun as kids are today with video games.
Decades went by and I started hunting with a Browning A5. What an improvement in shotgun designs in only 8 years between 1897 and 1905.
At gunshows, working 1897s cost more than working Rem 11s.
You can buy 1897s because they are cool, but not because they are cost effective.
I built the shotgun and it works, except sometimes the slide does not lock forward. I should fix it.
I have another one that has been in the family since the 1934 Seattle dock strike. My uncle bought a bunch and sawed them to 18.5" barrels to protect his ship [a wooden 4 masted schooner]. That ship got taken over by the navy in WWII and sank. Fortunately the family arsenal of shotguns was not on board.
In 1959 one of those 97's was given to my father for Christmas. My father had it rebarreled at Warshalls. When I was 12 I fell down with it in Moxee volcanic dirt, plugging up the muzzle. When I fired it, the shotgun got shortened again. My father got a poly choke put on it for me. I got as good with that shot gun as kids are today with video games.
Decades went by and I started hunting with a Browning A5. What an improvement in shotgun designs in only 8 years between 1897 and 1905.
At gunshows, working 1897s cost more than working Rem 11s.
You can buy 1897s because they are cool, but not because they are cost effective.
